Past exhibitions

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.

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).

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.

Questioning our relationship to images and the way they mediatize reality, the show Silvie Defraoui. The Trembling of Certitudes honors the artist by offering an in-depth look at the last thirty years of work by this major figure of Switzerland’s art scene.

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.

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

For her solo show in the Espace Projet gallery, Sarah Margnetti will exhibit a large selection of recent works, as well as wall paintings that will be done on site.

A major exhibition of the luminous and powerful work of Lubaina Himid (Zanzibar, 1954) offers an overview of the British artist’s output for the first time.

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…