Current exhibitions

Sandrine Pelletier. The Crystal Jaw
Prix Gustave Buchet 2021

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Espace Projet
Free admission
Sandrine Pelletier explores matter and its potential for alteration. Wood, ceramic, glass, metal and mirror are the areas of a physical, sensual research that falls between craftsmanship and alchemy. Through the manipulation and transformation of these materials, the artist sparks a reflection on the passing of time, the ruin, and the trace.
Sandrine Pelletier explores matter and its potential for alteration. Wood, ceramic, glass, metal and mirror are the areas of a physical, sensual research that falls between craftsmanship and alchemy. Through the manipulation and transformation of these materials, the artist sparks a reflection on the passing of time, the ruin, and the trace.

Unique et multiple. Œuvres récentes de la collection d’art BCV

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Espace Projet
Free admission
An overview of a corporate collection that has followed the contemporary-art scene in Vaud for a half century now. Under the direction of the museum curator Catherine Othenin-Girard, the show…
An overview of a corporate collection that has followed the contemporary-art scene in Vaud for a half century now. Under the direction of the museum curator Catherine Othenin-Girard, the show…

René Bauermeister. California Dreaming

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Espace Focus
Free admission
Aluminum, polyester, Plexiglas, and neon are some of the materials that René Bauermeister (1935-1985) employed in creating his sculptures in the late 1960s. Drawing on a collection he donated to…
Aluminum, polyester, Plexiglas, and neon are some of the materials that René Bauermeister (1935-1985) employed in creating his sculptures in the late 1960s. Drawing on a collection he donated to…

Maurice Denis. Amour

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Comrade of Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard when all three were studying art, Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a painter and major theoretician of modern French art at the turn of the 20th century. This show – the first dedicated to the artist in Switzerland in 50 years – focuses on the early years of Denis’s career. The novel visual experiments of the “Nabi of the beautiful icons” gave way to the serene splendor of the symbolist works, followed by the bold decision to return to classicism. This event, which features nearly 90 works, is organised with the exceptional support of the Musée d'Orsay and thanks to loans from Europe and the United States.

Reliques et monuments. Œuvres de Christian Boltanski

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Espace Focus
Free admission
Following Les Suisses morts, the show Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) mounted at the museum in 1993, MCBA acquired several pieces by the French artist as well as a number of artist’s…
Following Les Suisses morts, the show Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) mounted at the museum in 1993, MCBA acquired several pieces by the French artist as well as a number of artist’s…

Anne Rochat. In Corpore
Manor Vaud Culture Prize 2020

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Espace Projet
Free admission
For her show featured in the MCBA Espace Projet, Anne Rochat (*1982 in the vallée de Joux; lives and works in Berlin) unfolds a panorama of her work from the last…
For her show featured in the MCBA Espace Projet, Anne Rochat (*1982 in the vallée de Joux; lives and works in Berlin) unfolds a panorama of her work from the last…

Kiki Smith. Hearing You with My Eyes

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With a selection of nearly one hundred pieces, some of which have never been shown in Europe before, the exhibition includes work the american artist made over the past forty years. It is organized around the theme of sensory perception, which has been central to Smith’s work yet little explored until now.

Giovanni Giacometti. Watercolours

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Espace Focus
Free admission
MCBA conserves many oil paintings and drawings by Giovanni Giacometti, a major artist from the turn of the 20th century and a faithful friend of one of the institution’s great…
MCBA conserves many oil paintings and drawings by Giovanni Giacometti, a major artist from the turn of the 20th century and a faithful friend of one of the institution’s great…