Museum der schönen Künste

Piero Manzoni: Painting without colour

17.06.2016 - 25.09.2016

The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne is presenting the first museum exhibition in Switzerland of the work of Piero Manzoni (1933–1963). Centred on the Achromes – the white monochromes the artist worked on during his brief career (1957–1963) – the exhibition comprises 70 outstanding works ranging from the famous wrinkled canvases to the final polystyrene p... weiter

Tapisseries nomades. Fondation Toms Pauli. Collection XXe siècle

26.03.2016 - 29.05.2016

Tapisseries nomades, exposition de la collection contemporaine de la Fondation Toms Pauli, retrace dans les salles du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne l’évolution de l’art textile des années 1960 aux années 2000 - de la tapisserie classique et murale à la sculpture souple, de la décoration à l’installation. L’ac... weiter

Accrochage [Vaud 2016] & Prix culturel Manor Vaud 2016

22.01.2016 - 06.03.2016

Accrochage [Vaud] presents the contemporary art scene in Vaud, with works selected from an open submission by a jury of professionals. Whether it is a question of painting, sculpture, photography or video, art as it is being created in the Canton is given a place of honour to start the year in high style, with a room devoted to exhibiting the work of Anne Hildbrand, the winner of the Prix du Ju... weiter

Giuseppe Penone: Regards croisés

25.09.2015 - 03.01.2016

Le Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne présente la première exposition dans un musée en Suisse romande de l’artiste Giuseppe Penone (né en 1947 à Garessio, Italie, vit et travaille à Turin), conçue en étroite collaboration avec l’artiste. Tout grand sculpteur est aussi un grand dessinateur. Giuseppe Penone donne ... weiter

Kader Attia: Injuries Are Here

22.05.2015 - 30.08.2015

The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts is hosting a major exhibition showcasing the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia (born in 1970 in Dugny, near Paris, now lives and works in Berlin and Algiers). The event, curated in close collaboration with the artist himself, is his first solo exhibition in Switzerland. Kader Attia draws on a broad range of media from installations to photography and ... weiter

Objectif gare (Destination station)

05.06.2015 - 16.06.2015

Three museums – the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Musée de l’Elysée (photography museum) and the mudac (museum of design and contemporary applied arts) – set out to meet their audience on a trail which leads to their future common site, the Pôle muséal near the Swiss Railways locomotive workshops at Lausanne station. The Kader Attia exhibition a... weiter

Paris, à nous deux ! (Taking on Paris)

05.02.2015 - 26.04.2015

In the spring, the museum will present an exhibition dedicated to showcasing the major pieces in its collections. Paris, à nous deux ! (Taking on Paris) retraces the relationship between French-speaking Swiss artists, many of whom trained in Paris, and the French capital from the 19th to the mid-20th century. The artists sought to establish their reputations in the capital of the arts ... weiter

Accrochage [Vaud 2014] et Prix Manor 2014

31.10.2014 - 11.01.2015

ccrochage [Vaud] présente la scène artistique vaudoise contemporaine, avec des œuvres sélectionnées sur libre présentation par un jury de professionnels. Qu’il s’agisse de peinture, de sculpture, de photographie ou de vidéo, l’art en train de se faire dans le Canton est mis à l’honneur pour finir l’année... weiter

Giacometti, Marini, Richier. The tortured figure

31.01.2014 - 27.04.2014

In 2014 the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne will present an exhibition devoted to three leading 20th-century sculptors: Alberto Giacometti, Marino Marini and Germaine Richier. Confronted with the impossibility of persevering in depicting human beings in the traditional way in a context dominated by abstraction, how do Giacometti, Marini and Richier come up with new images of ... weiter

Making Space. 40 ans d'art vidéo

18.10.2013 - 05.01.2014

An exhibition retracing forty years of video art around questions of space. weiter

Raisons et sentiments. Le XVIIIe siècle dans les collections du Musée

28.06.2013 - 22.09.2013

In the 18th Century, artists define the profile of modern man in his search of new knowledge, new territories and new feelings.weiter

Peinture. Alex Katz & Félix Vallotton

22.03.2013 - 09.06.2013

The dialogue between these two figurative artists (they are separated by an ocean and almost a century) is a celebration of painting at its best. weiter

Accrochage - Christopher Füllemann: Forms and Lovers

26.01.2013 - 03.03.2013

After the 2012 edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the event’s existence by giving carte blanche to the winners of the Prix du Jury, Accrochage [Vaud] is reverting to its normal pattern. This exhibition devoted to the contemporary art scene in Vaud will again allow the public to discover works by artists from different generations, freely submitted by the artists and selected by ... weiter

Esther Shalev-Gerz. Between Telling and Listening

22.09.2012 - 06.01.2013

Born in Lithuania, raised in Israel and living in Paris, Esther Shalev-Gerz has developed her artistic practice for more than twenty years around questions linked to the construction of memory, personal or collective. Her interpretation of history is solidly rooted in the present of its protagonists: most of her works are created in dialogue with the inhabitants of a specific place or the witnesse... weiter

Aloïse. Le richet solaire

02.06.2012 - 26.08.2012

This summer Aloïse will be celebrated by Lausanne, the city of her birth. The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts and the Collection de l'Art Brut will exhibit the work of this inspired artist in concomitance with the publication of the critical catalogue of her work. Institutionalized for schizophrenia in 1918, Aloïse was 32 when she cut her ties with her past. Formerly a clothes ... weiter

9=10. Carte blanche aux lauréats d'Accrochage [Vaud]

10.02.2012 - 06.05.2012

Anniversaries are pretexts for celebrating what has been accomplished, taking stock, and thinking about the future: Accrochage [Vaud] is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2012, and to mark the occasion the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts is mounting a special edition of this annual event, inaugurated in 2003. Held ten times, with nine winners of the Prix du Jury, nearly two hundred applicati... weiter