Exhibitions

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.

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.

Winner of the 9th Prix Gustave Buchet, Giulia Essyad exhibits and transforms her own body using digital technology to question the mechanisms of desire and commodification that are usually associated with it.

Every five years, the museum opens its walls to the photographers of tomorrow. In 2025, reGeneration will bring together the work of primarily Generation Z photographers, commonly defined as those born between 1995 and 2010, from around the world. Focused on the plurality of identity, Gen Z highlights the concerns of a generation, regardless of origin or nationality. These concerns range from the shifting and unstable nature of home and family to intersectionality, gender, and the diasporic perspective. The photographers participating in this major collective exhibition, new talents proposed by photography experts from all over the world, will unveil the world as they see it.

This exhibition looks at the place of photographic images in publishing for young people. The project takes visitors on an unprecedented journey through the children’s photobook, from its rise in the 1930s with the development of new teaching methods that used photography as a universal language rather than text, right up to the present day. Celebrating children’s books, the exhibition will offer families various playful and educational activities. Co-produced by the Institut pour la photographie de Lille and Photo Elysée, the exhibition will be showcased in six European venues following its debut in Lausanne.

Plateforme 10 hosts both MCBA and the Félix Vallotton Foundation. The former which conserves the largest collection of the artist’s works anywhere, and the latter, a documentation and research centre, are honoured to present a major retrospective devoted to Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) to commemorate in the artist’s native city of Lausanne the centenary of his death.

In conjunction with Vallotton Forever, featuring the artist’s masterpieces, this small-format show focuses on the origins of Félix Vallotton’s work, exploring the various phases of his growing output in a surprising range of mediums, including illustration, engraving, painting, even writing.

In resonance with the Vallotton Forever exhibition at the MCBA and in collaboration with Spanish artist Gloria Oyarzabal, whose USUS FRUCTUS ABUSUS series is inspired by Félix Vallotton’s painting La Blanche et la Noire, Photo Elysée offers a reinterpretation of the archives of the Lehnert & Landrock studio, active in North Africa in the early 20th century.

mudac and Fondation Toms Pauli are proud to present an exceptional exhibition dedicated to tapestry as a vector for social and political discourse.

In 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts of the City of Lausanne (mudac) will give Swiss designer Kévin Germanier carte blanche to take over the museum with the same originality and creativity that have characterised his approach to fashion for several years.