Current exhibitions

The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne hosted the first major solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Esther Shalev-Gerz in Switzerland. The Lausanne retrospective provided a rich panorama of…

The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts sought to bring together the works of two painters who, at first glance, seem to have little in common: one, Franco-Swiss, was born in Lausanne…

The years between the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the fall of Charles X in 1830 were crucial for France, a sounding board for Europe in a period…

In 1973 video celebrated its tenth birthday, and Nam June Paik made what would become the cult tape of the history of video – Global Groove. That same year the…

In 2014, the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne presented an exhibition dedicated to three major sculptors of the 20th century: Alberto Giacometti, Marino Marini, and Germaine Richier. How, faced…

The museum hosted an exhibition tracing the history of Russian landscape painting from the reign of Alexander II to the October Revolution. This event provided a unique opportunity to discover,…

In the spring of 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts dedicated an exhibition to showcasing major pieces from its collection, in dialogue with works loaned by public institutions and private…

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…

Curated by the Fondation Toms Pauli for the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Tapisseries nomades retraces the textile art’s evolution from the 1960s to the 2000s: from classical wall tapestry to…