Past exhibitions

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 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…

Interned for schizophrenia in 1918, the Vaudoise Aloïse Corbaz, known as Aloïse (1886-1964), was thirty-two years old when she severed ties with her past. Once a seamstress, governess to children…

Anniversaries are pretexts for celebrating what has been accomplished, taking stock, and thinking about the future: Accrochage [Vaud] is celebrating its tenth birthday in 2012, and to mark the occasion…

Art is a serious business. Artists do not poke fun at their clients, whoever they may be – emperors, kings, princes, ambassadors, private individuals or art dealers – unless they…

Donating a collection of artworks, or even a single piece, to a museum is to actively participate in a great human and cultural adventure; it is to enrich public heritage…

Renowned as a master of the new generation after his 1894 exhibition at the Salon des Cent, the Vaudois Eugène Grasset (1845-1917) exerted a major influence on the revival of…

For the ninth consecutive year, the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne presented the exhibition Accrochage [Vaud], dedicated to the contemporary Vaud art scene, encompassing all generations. This year,…

I See Only the Sun explored the selectivity of the artist’s eye in a Western civilization where light, associated with beauty and truth, contrasts with shadow, the realm of fear…