Welcome to plateforme 10

Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea
04.10.2024 – 12.01.2025
Découvrir l’exposition
Bô Noël in the Arts district
until 31.12.24
Bô Noël at the Arts district
Maya Rochat - Water is coming
until 23.02.25
Maya Rochat
Projections XXL
07.12.24 - 29.12.25
Projections XLL

Bô Noël at the Marché des arts

From November 20 to December 31, 2024, Bô Noël will be setting up its “Marché des arts” on the PLATEFORME 10 esplanade for the first time.
Special offer every Thursday: buy a Plateforme 10 – 3 museums or DUO ticket valid for one Thursday and receive a free Ferris wheel ride. Offer valid every Thursday from November 21, 2024 to December 26, 2024 inclusive for a same-day ticket. Offer reserved for paying customers. Get yours now!
Santa Claus will be present on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays (with some exceptions).

(Re)discover current exhibitions and enjoy the christmas magic on the Esplanade. Maya Rochat, We will survive Thalassa! Thalassa! and many others await you in the museums. Exhibitions of the moment.

End of year opening times

Tuesday December 24: Photo Elysée and mudac are closed, MCBA open from 10am to 5pm
Wednesday December 25: All 3 museums are closed
Thursday December 26: All three museums open from 10am to 8pm
Tuesday December 31st: Photo Elysée and mudac are closed, MCBA open from 10am to 5pm
Wednesday, January 1st: All 3 museums are closed

Daido Moriyama

06.09.2024 – 23.02.2025

Photo Elysée is presenting a major exhibition devoted to one of Japan’s greatest photographers. This retrospective, produced by the Instituto Moreira Salles (Sao Paulo, Brazil), will be making a stopover in Switzerland after showing in Berlin and London.

Discover the exhibition

What’s on at the moment

André Tommasini. A Life Spent Sculpting

06.09.2024 – 05.01.2025

With the help of unpublished archives held by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), the exhibition spotlights the life and work of the Lausanne sculptor André Tommasini. (1931-2011).

Uriel Orlow. Forest Futurism

27.09.2024 – 16.02.2025

For his show in the MCBA Espace Projet venue, Uriel Orlow (b. 1973 in Zurich; lives and works between Lisbon, London and Zurich) is presenting a series of new works from a research project begun in Bolzano (Italy) which takes fossilised trees as its main subjects, in order to explore the extended time of climate change.

We Will Survive

13.09.2024 – 09.02.2025

The exhibition addresses the threats to our existence and the responses of governments to protect their populations, exploring how neo-survivalists turn to design to prepare for an uncertain future and ensure their survival. We Will Survive also prompts us to question to what extent we all are—or should be—preppers.

Sabine Weiss × Nathalie Boutté

22.06.2024 – 23.02.2025

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. 

Archives du Design Romand

13.09.2024 – 09.02.2025

mudac is embarking on a fascinating quest: to retrace the history of design in French-speaking Switzerland. More than an exhibition, Archives du Design Romand. What Narratives? offers a platform that will evolve over the course of live discussions with designers, historians, and journalists, to capture the emergence and evolution of design. oio studio, which has been invited to take up a residency, will be experimenting with the possible contributions of artificial intelligence to meet these challenges.

Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea

04.10.2024 – 12.01.2025

This show challenges us with a singular landscape, the sea, in works of art from the 19th century to the present. What role have artists played in fashioning its imagery? How do they express our desire to preserve its mysteries and beauties?

The Collection

Permanent presentation

« 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.

 

Ante Ceramicum

15.11.2024 – 16.02.2025

Isabelle Tanner has been invited by mudac and the Naturéum (Lausanne’s Museum of Natural Sciences) to put together an exhibition at Signal L in the Plateforme 10 arts district. Ante Ceramicum echoes the Spécimens 24 exhibition at Palais de Rumine and Lausanne’s Botanical Garden.

Maya Rochat

24.10.2024 – 23.02.2025

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.

Lee Shulman

06.09.2024 – 23.02.2025

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.

Sous les vagues

30.11.2024 – 02.03.2025

mudac has forged a meaningful link with the exhibition Thalassa! Thalassa! Imagery of the Sea, hosted by the MCBA (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts) from 4 October 2024 to 12 January 2025, with a display exploring the fragile beauty of the oceans.

Upcoming events

Visite commentée – Thalassa! Thalassa!

05.01.2025

Une guide conférencière accompagne le groupe dans la découverte de l’exposition: clés de lecture, pistes d’interprétation, échanges de points de vue… 25 personnes max. /…

11h00 - 12h00
From 15.-
MCBA
Adultes
Book

Visite à thème – Bocaux anatomiques et coquillages en boîtes

09.01.2025

Parcourir l’exposition “Thalassa! Thalassa! L’imaginaire de la mer” en compagnie de Michel Sartori, ancien directeur du Musée de zoologie, et Céline Stoffel, technicienne de laboratoire…

Michel Sartori, ancien directeur du Musée de zoologie et Céline Stoffel, technicienne de laboratoire au Naturéum
18h30 - 19h30
MCBA
Adultes
Book

Visite avec les commissaires – Thalassa! Thalassa!

12.01.2025

Visite commentée de l’exposition “Thalassa! Thalassa! L’imaginaire de la mer” par Danielle Chaperon et Catherine Lepdor, co-commssaires de l’exposition. 25 personnes max. / écouteurs disponibles…

Danielle Chaperon et Catherine Lepdor
15h00 - 16h00
MCBA
Adultes
Book
Quartier des arts, Lausanne, Plateforme 10 et ses 3 musées

The new Arts District

PLATEFORME 10 is a one-of-a-kind site in Switzerland bringing together 3 canton-level museums and 2 foundations on a sprawling esplanade of nearly 25,000 square meters just a few steps from Lausanne’s main train station.

Inaugurated in 2019, the new building housing the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts (MCBA) led the way for the exciting adventure that is Plateforme 10. This was followed in 2022 by a new home for two other Lausanne institutions, Photo Elysée and mudac. As an arts district and lively public space right in the heart of Lausanne, Plateforme 10 offers everyone a unique opportunity to discover the diversity and interdisciplinarity of the arts and art making in the fine arts, photography and design.

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Evénements Plateforme 10 Lausanne