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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? How do they express our desire to preserve its mysteries and beauties?

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For his show in the MCBA Espace Projet venue, Uriel Orlow is presenting a series of new works from a research project begun in Bolzano (Italy) which takes fossilised trees as its main subjects, in order to explore the extended time of climate change.

Press conference: September 26 at 10:30 AM with the artist Uriel Orlow or by appointment

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With the help of unpublished archives held by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), the exhibition spotlights the life and work of the Lausanne sculptor André Tommasini.

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As part of its permanent collection display, MCBA has a video installation by the contemporary artist Katie Paterson. The museum has now coupled the installation with a painting by the 19th-century Romantic painter François Diday to create a visual dialogue. The connection is part of Regarder le glacier s’en aller (Watching the Glacier Disappear), a decentralised exhibition taking place in a number of venues throughout Switzerland.

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To mark the award of the Manor Vaud Cultural Prize, Gina Proenza is taking over the Espace Projet for a brand new exhibition: she devises a polyphonic installation that questions the positions of those who pronounce or receive a sentence.

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This transhistorical show, the first thematic exhibition devoted to Surrealism at MCBA since 1987, examines the unprecedented relevance today of this major movement in the history of art. Surrealism, a young centenarian, hasn’t aged one bit.

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MCBA is pleased to present White Out – Between Telling and Listening, an installation by Esther Shalev-Gerz, who offers us a portrait of a woman between two cultures, places, and timeframes.

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MCBA is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the work of Babi Badalov. Both writing and drawing, the artist’s visual poetry explores the political and poetic possibilities of language.

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With fourteen immersive environments by a range of artists, from Lucio Fontana to Judy Chicago, Immersion. The Origins: 1949-1969 is the first exhibition to look at an emerging practice that was to become one of the major forms of expression starting in the 1990s.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Featuring over 60 masterpieces by an extraordinary range of artists, from Giorgio de Chirico and Edward Hopper to Paul Delvaux and Leonor Fini, the show takes us on a railroad epic.

Both a celebration and critique of modernity, the railroad, while inseparable from the ideology of unstoppable progress pulsing through the Industrial Age, generated surprising and incongruous effects in artists’ imaginations. Trains embody both the rational and the irrational.

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The show Gustave Buchet. Charged with Painting looks back over the career of the Swiss artist, a signal figure of early-20th-century avant garde movements in Switzerland. Through some one hundred artworks – paintings, sculptures, and pieces from the decorative arts – the exhibition looks to show how Buchet passionately pursued his quest for novel formal solutions.

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“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 some three hundred works dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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In 2019, MCBA received an exceptional donation, 34 works by Jean Dubuffet from the art collection of Mireille and James Lévy.

This group of works, some of which are on display in the galleries devoted to the collection, will be unveiled as a whole for this show. Mireille and James Lévy were passionate art lovers and collected throughout their lives, in particular the work of this French artist, whose talent and nonconformity fascinated them.

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Marie Cool Fabio Balducci have renounced their individualities while leaving them visible still, just as they only ever express themselves in one and the same voice. They have given concrete form to their thinking in installations and actions through objects, fragments of objects, a range of materials, and/or physical phenomena. Their body of work constitutes a reflection on power and the issues it raises, relations of domination, the marginalization of individuals and objects in society, the workings of the economy, and the illusion of democracy.

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Withdrawal, silence, resilience, outcry, indignation, protestation, action, reflection, satire, humor… This collective show exemplifies the forms of resistance artists have developed when faced with the great challenges of our age – those forms amount to survival strategies.

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This show explores the theme of drawing and the possibilities that lie within the medium, with some 60 works from the MCBA collections by contemporary artists.

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