The exhibition, unique in Switzerland, retraces Takahata’s career, from Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974) to Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013), through his notebooks and storyboards, original drawings, cels, film and video excerpts and audiovisual documents.

The mudac is inaugurating its new exhibition space, Le carré, with Jean Tschumi Designer. This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Artistic Commission of Vaudoise Assurances, focuses on a particular aspect of the great Swiss architect’s work: his furniture designs for Le Cèdre, the headquarters of Vaudoise Assurances in Lausanne.

MCBA, in collaboration with the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, is presenting a major exhibition devoted to the work of Otobong Nkanga. Conceived in collaboration with the artist, it features emblematic installations, photo series, recent works, and a significant number of drawings, some of which date from her early artmaking days and are being shown for the first time.

Mounted in the MCBA Espace Focus gallery and within The collection, the display of the museum’s permanent collection, the show French Painting 1800-1945. Anatomy of a Collection invites visitors to rediscover the many masterpieces of French painting conserved in the museum. These are pieces signed by a number of major French artists, including Corot, Courbet, Degas, Cezanne, Matisse, and Bonnard. It is also the chance to discover paintings that are rarely on view.

« 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.

The exhibition Ella Maillart Photographic Encounters pays tribute to the photographer, traveler and writer on the occasion of her archives being included in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Photo Elysée presents a selection of photographs taken by Maillart during her travels in Asia in the 1930s.   

The Echo of the World is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Luc Delahaye, a renowned former photojournalist. Presented by Photo Elysée in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, it showcases twenty-five years of his creative work. Through his large-format photographic compositions, the artist documents contemporary wars and sites of power.

Through her sculptures, found objects, writing and films, Marina Xenofontos interrogates the material manifestations of memory and history. For her show in the Espace Projet, she explores the question of space, both virtual and real.

Through a series of photographs, installations and videos, Salvatore Vitale’s exhibition, SABOTAGE, explores the gig economy and the algorithms that are transforming the world of work. By navigating the contradictions of digital capitalism and the various forms of resistance to it, the exhibition offers visitors a deep dive into the new realities of work in the digital age.  

With more than 300 glass animals, from the collection of distinguished art historian and Honorary Director of the Louvre Pierre Rosenberg, and pieces from his donation to the musée du Grand Siècle, the exhibition highlights the delicacy of Murano glass animals while questioning our ambivalent relationship with living beings.