diff --git a/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/Explorer.scss b/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/Explorer.scss
index a96390aa..a1088472 100644
--- a/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/Explorer.scss
+++ b/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/Explorer.scss
@@ -83,10 +83,25 @@
         text-decoration: none;
         color: var(--c--theme--colors--greyscale-700);
 
+        .c__tooltip {
+          max-width: 100%;
+        }
+
+        > img {
+          // Need to set width and height to prevent layout shift
+          // and to make overflow calculations work correctly before
+          // the image is loaded
+          width: 32px;
+          height: 32px;
+        }
+
         &__text {
           font-size: 14px;
           font-weight: 400;
           color: var(--c--theme--colors--greyscale-1000);
+          overflow: hidden;
+          text-overflow: ellipsis;
+          white-space: nowrap;
         }
       }
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/ExplorerGrid.tsx b/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/ExplorerGrid.tsx
index 08a6111b..055514d5 100644
--- a/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/ExplorerGrid.tsx
+++ b/src/frontend/apps/drive/src/features/explorer/components/ExplorerGrid.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   getCoreRowModel,
   useReactTable,
 } from "@tanstack/react-table";
-import { useCallback, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { NavigationEventType, useExplorer } from "./ExplorerContext";
 import clsx from "clsx";
@@ -36,12 +36,7 @@ export const ExplorerGrid = () => {
   // icon as <img> which get re-fetched on every render.
   const nameCellRenderer = useCallback(
     (params: CellContext<Item, string>) => (
-      <div className="explorer__grid__item__name">
-        <ItemIcon item={params.row.original} />
-        <span className="explorer__grid__item__name__text">
-          {params.row.original.title}
-        </span>
-      </div>
+      <ItemTitle item={params.row.original} />
     ),
     []
   );
@@ -320,3 +315,46 @@ const ItemActions = ({ item }: { item: Item }) => {
     </DropdownMenu>
   );
 };
+
+const ItemTitle = ({ item }: { item: Item }) => {
+  const ref = useRef<HTMLSpanElement>(null);
+  const [isOverflown, setIsOverflown] = useState(false);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const checkOverflow = () => {
+      const element = ref.current;
+      // Should always be defined, but just in case.
+      if (element) {
+        setIsOverflown(element.scrollWidth > element.clientWidth);
+      }
+    };
+    checkOverflow();
+
+    window.addEventListener("resize", checkOverflow);
+    return () => {
+      window.removeEventListener("resize", checkOverflow);
+    };
+  }, [item.title]);
+
+  const renderTitle = () => {
+    // We need to have the element holding the ref nested because the Tooltip component
+    // seems to make the top-most children ref null.
+    return (
+      <div style={{ display: "flex", overflow: "hidden" }}>
+        <span className="explorer__grid__item__name__text" ref={ref}>
+          {item.title}
+        </span>
+      </div>
+    );
+  };
+  return (
+    <div className="explorer__grid__item__name">
+      <ItemIcon item={item} />
+      {isOverflown ? (
+        <Tooltip content={item.title}>{renderTitle()}</Tooltip>
+      ) : (
+        renderTitle()
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+};