Welcome to plateforme 10

Bringing together work by ten visual artists employing ornamentation and decoration to challenge concepts of taste, class and gender, the exhibition springs from Vaud’s long tradition of developing the decorative and applied arts.

With the aim of producing photographic documentation of its living traditions, which are included in the inventory of the Vaud’s intangible heritage, the Canton of Vaud has entrusted six photographers, selected by competition, to produce original projects. In this exhibition, Thomas Brasey, Olga Cafiero, Sarah Carp, Matthieu Gafsou, Yves Leresche and Romain Mader reveal the result of their photographic investigation before their pictures become part of Photo Elysée’s collection.

« 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.

American photographer Tyler Mitchell is driven by dreams of paradise against the backdrop of history. Since his rise to prominence in the world of fashion, Mitchell has propelled a visual narrative of beauty, style, utopia, and the landscape that expands visions of Black life. Photo Elysée presents Mitchell’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, offering new perspectives on his longstanding themes of self-determination and the extraordinary radiance of the everyday, and showing how photography can be rooted in the past while evoking imagined futures.

The exhibition spotlights the work of Alain Huck and surveys almost thirty years of his practice, from his earliest works on canvas and the monumental charcoal pieces that first brought him recognition to his most recent drawings.

Playing with the concepts of scale and trompe l’œil, the vast photo installations created by Sophie Thun take the exhibition space as their starting point. The artist renders modes of production visible through a complex process of layering that questions any fixed notion of time and space.

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.

From the spring equinox to the autumn equinox, mudac invites you to soak up the sun with the second Solar Biennale.

Sport in Focus lifts the veil on the vast collections of the Olympic Museum and Photo Elysée, showcasing sports photography. Presented in Arles in 2024, the exhibition makes a stopover in Lausanne.