Since opening in June 2009, Punta della Dogana has welcomed nearly 500,000 visitors and Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection was the most visited contemporary art exhibition in Italy in 2010. 

From now on, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana will present exhibitions that operate under two distinct time frames. Punta della Dogana, concerned with a continuous presentation of the collection, operates on a long-term schedule, similar to permanent collection changeovers of major international art museums, whereas Palazzo Grassi will present a faster turnover, with more emphasis on the “event” nature of its exhibitions.

François Pinault has appointed Caroline Bourgeois as the curator of this exhibition, which will bring together historical pieces and new works which question the idea of uncertainty, our convictions about identity, and revisit the relationship between private space and the space of the artwork.

Caroline Bourgeois has curated numerous shows including Money, Joan Jonas, Valie Export, Cao Fei, Adel Abdessemed and Loris Gréaud as well as several exhibitions of the François Pinault Collection including The Passage of Time in Lille, A Certain State of the World in Moscow, and Who’s Afraid of Artists? in Dinard.

Of the 20 artists shown in the exhibition In Praise of Doubt, almost half have never been included in previous exhibitions of the François Pinault Collection. The artists include Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Subodh Gupta, David Hammons, Roni Horn, Thomas Houseago, Donald Judd, Edward Kienholz, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Julie Mehretu, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Shütte, Elaine Sturtevant, Tatiana Trouvé and Chen Zhen.

The exhibition presents newly commissioned works by Julie Mehretu and Tatiana Trouvé, specially created for the site.