Current exhibitions

Mirage
The BCV Art Collection invites Natacha Donzé, Gina Proenza, Jean-Luc Manz, and Denis Savary

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Espace Projet
Free admission
For the second exhibition featuring the BCV Art Collection in MCBA’s special Espace Projet gallery, four artists are showing new installations and other pieces in a play of correspondences and dialogue around their respective practices
For the second exhibition featuring the BCV Art Collection in MCBA’s special Espace Projet gallery, four artists are showing new installations and other pieces in a play of correspondences and dialogue around their respective practices

Steinlen.
Swipe of the Paws and Velvet Claws

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Espace Focus
Free admission
MCBA is pleased to celebrate Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, a wonderful eyewitness to the Belle Époque in Paris. The show features for the first time an extensive group of works from the Paul and Tina Stohler Donation.
MCBA is pleased to celebrate Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, a wonderful eyewitness to the Belle Époque in Paris. The show features for the first time an extensive group of works from the Paul and Tina Stohler Donation.

Emily Jacir. We Ate the Wind

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Espace Projet
Free admission
Drawing on rituals such as dances, processions and games, Emily Jacir's film installation for the MCBA traces how space, community and memory can be claimed.
Drawing on rituals such as dances, processions and games, Emily Jacir's film installation for the MCBA traces how space, community and memory can be claimed.

Magdalena Abakanowicz. Textile Territories

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For its first major show at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts at the museum’s Plateforme 10 address, the Fondation Toms Pauli invites visitors to rediscover the startling work of Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930 – 2017), a pioneer of textile art and a major artist of 20th-century sculpture.

The CAYC Group. Buenos Aires - Lausanne

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Espace Focus
Free admission
In the 1970s and 1980s, two highly productive art world figures agreed to set up art exchanges between Lausanne and Buenos Aires. They were René Berger, the director of MCBA, and Jorge Glusberg, the director of CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación).
In the 1970s and 1980s, two highly productive art world figures agreed to set up art exchanges between Lausanne and Buenos Aires. They were René Berger, the director of MCBA, and Jorge Glusberg, the director of CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación).

Jardin d’Hiver #2
Poems of Change

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Curated by Simon Würsten Marin, the second iteration of Jardin d’Hiver (Winter Garden), the biennial show devoted to the region’s contemporary art scene, will explore questions of change, instability, and vulnerability, while showcasing the variety seen throughout the artists’ modes of expression.

Balthus the Draftsman

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Espace Focus
Free admission
The exhibition features a selection of drawings by Balthus which the artist’s family has placed with the museum as long-term loans..
The exhibition features a selection of drawings by Balthus which the artist’s family has placed with the museum as long-term loans..

René Auberjonois – Louis Soutter.
The Return to Innocence

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Espace Focus
Free admission
The show brings together two outstanding artists in the MCBA’s collection to examine the quest, which both shared, to get back to art’s sources. Louis Soutter and René Auberjonois were…
The show brings together two outstanding artists in the MCBA’s collection to examine the quest, which both shared, to get back to art’s sources. Louis Soutter and René Auberjonois were…
Upcoming exhibitions