Welcome to plateforme 10

« Come and see here what you won’t see elsewhere! » is the slogan for the permanent exhibition, laid out chronologically over two floors to showcase treasures from Vaud’s art collections, with some three hundred works dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.

In the Fall, Photo Elysée extends a carte blanche to Swiss visual artist Maya Rochat. Through her artistic endeavors, she deftly engages with images, skillfully superimposing and manipulating them to craft vibrant and saturated visual montages, which she presents as distinctive, textured installations. Maya Rochat’s creative exploration spans photography, painting, installation, and performance. Whether working in situ, within or beyond conventional institutions, her work manifests an artistic fascination with organic language expressed through diverse media—be it analog or digital, figurative or abstract, printed or in motion.

Home & Away is a photographic installation based on the collection of The Anonymous Project. Collecting color slides from the last 70 years, The Anonymous Project preserves this collective memory. In his installations, Lee Shulman gives a second life to the often forgotten people in these moments captured in Kodachrome color.

Designed for L’Atelier de Photo Elysée, Home & Away invites visitors to settle into an interior inspired by the great years of the slide.

To celebrate the centenary of Sabine Weiss’ birth, Photo Elysée is putting on a show in tribute to the photographer who died in 2021. The museum will unveil various treasures from among the 200,000 negatives and 7,000 contact sheets in the collection received in 2017.  

Sabine Weiss was a major figure in humanist photography, a movement born in France after the Second World War. Throughout her career, the photographer was driven by an insatiable curiosity about others, whether in France where she settled in 1946 or during her many trips across Europe, the United States and Asia, where she continued to travel until the end of her life.  

Photo Elysée has one of the world’s largest collections devoted to photography. It spans the entire history of the medium, from its invention in the 19th century to digital technologies. At Photo Elysée, Sabine Weiss joins other great names from the world of photography such as René Burri, Leonard Freed, Henriette Grindat, Monique Jacot, Lehnert & Landrock and Ella Maillart. 

This show brings to light a side of the gallerist’s activities in the art market that is less well known, the creation and selling of what is called multiples. Alice Pauli was always in search of new ways of working with both the artists who lived and worked in her region and the great names in international contemporary art. ln connection with the exhibition Alice Pauli. Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron.

Paying homage to the gallerist and art patron Alice Pauli, this show hails the extraordinary career of a pioneer. Figures from the realm of international contemporary art, notable artists on the Swiss scene — the many names behind the features works are those that this exceptional woman had been eager to see brought together and showcased in a single venue.