Exhibitions

What’s on at the moment

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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With the help of unpublished archives held by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), the exhibition spotlights the life and work of the Lausanne sculptor André Tommasini.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

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Other exhibitions

Encounter iced sound 2.0

MUSICAL PAVILION

Ramon Landolt and Caterina Viguera
Encounter Iced Sound 2.0

Plateforme10, 18.09 – 10.10.2024

(Access closes from 4 October)

An urban pavilion for listening to the music of glaciers. A harmonious collaboration between a musician and an architect. A work that brings beauty to disappearing glaciers.
This immersive installation offers a unique experience: listening to the music of glaciers in a specially designed urban pavilion. Using recordings of the sounds of disappearing glaciers, Landolt composes a work combining electronic music and natural sounds, creating a symphony dedicated to the fragility of our environment. Viguera has designed a triangular wooden pavilion, open to natural light, to provide a listening space where these sounds mingle with urban noise, symbolising the dialogue between nature and urbanisation.
Project as part of the exhibition Regarder le glacier s’en aller www.artforglaciers.ch

 

Isabelle Tanner x Naturéum - Ante Ceramicum

ISABELLE TANNER X NATURÉUM – ANTE CERAMICUM

Opening: 15 November

Echoing the Naturéum’s ‘Spécimens 24’ exhibition

Ceramist Isabelle Tanner is taking over the Le Signal L space at Plateforme 10 with a proposal from Naturéum and mudac.
Between split and fired stones or recomposed segments of land, Isabelle Tanner invites us to compare wild rock and ceramic art.
Metamorphism and issues relating to global warming are at the heart of this work.

Ceramic day: 19 January

Free admission. From 15 November to 16 February 2025.

Open Wednesday to Monday, 10am to 6pm (until 8pm on Thursdays).

Upcoming shows

Alice Pauli. Galeriste, collectionneuse et mécène

14.02 – 04.05.2025

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 ...

Alice Pauli and Prints

14.02 – 31.08.2025

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 ...

Sophie Thun. Wet Rooms

14.03 – 10.08.2025

Sophie Thun’s work looks like an accumulation of images of the venues where the artist has worked and exhibited. Her spatial installations play with our perception of reality while depicting ...

Soleil·s

21.03 – 21.09.2025

From the spring equinox to the autumn equinox of 2025, mudac will host the second Solar Biennale with the exhibition Soleil·s which will take place in the Plateforme 10 arts ...

Alain Huck. Breathe every other time

13.06 – 07.09.2025

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 ...

Jardin d’Hiver #3. DECORAMA

13.06 – 07.09.2025

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 ...

Giulia Essyad. Prix Gustave Buchet

12.09.2025 – 04.01.2026

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 ...

Vallotton Forever. The Retrospective

24.10.2025 – 15.02.2026

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, ...

Vallotton. The Ingenious Laboratory

24.10.2025 – 15.02.2026

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 ...