René Bauermeister. California Dreaming

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Espace Focus
Free entrance
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…

Jardin d'Hiver #1:
Comment peut-on être (du village d'à côté) persan (martien) ?

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Under the direction of the art critic and freelance curator Jill Gasparina, this show makes the principle of collage its own, featuring works by Francis Baudevin, Giovanna Belossi, Christine Boumeester, Leonora Carrington, Françoise Chaillet, Circuit, Delphine Coindet, Ligia Dias, Raquel Dias, Lucas Erin, Mathis Gasser, Julien Gremaud, Rosanne Kapela, Stéphane Kropf, Silicon Malley, Yoan Mudry, Véra Pagava, Urgent Paradise, Gina Proenza, Denis Savary, Anouk Tschanz, Caroline Tschumi, Tunnel Tunnel , Pierre Vadi et Jérôme Wilfredo Baccaglio.

Jean Otth. Spaces of Projection

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Jean Otth (1940–2013), a pioneer of video art in Switzerland, began exploring the visual potential of new technologies as early as the late 1960s, experimenting with slides as projected, dematerialised images, television and its language, and the experimental, shifting nature of video.

Sandrine Pelletier. Prix Buchet 2021

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Espace Projet
Free entrance
Sandrine Pelletier (*1976) works with materials and their potential, wood, ceramic, charcoal, glass, metal, and mirrors. These are the fields of physical and sensual exploration that the artist transforms to…
Sandrine Pelletier (*1976) works with materials and their potential, wood, ceramic, charcoal, glass, metal, and mirrors. These are the fields of physical and sensual exploration that the artist transforms to…

Christian Boltanski. Reliques et monuments 1985-1996

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

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

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Espace Projet
Free entrance
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…

Aloïse

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Espace Focus
Free entrance
In the 1960s, MCBA became interested in the work of the exceptional outsider artist Aloïse (1886–1964), a native of Vaud who had been committed to the Cery asylum in 1918.
In the 1960s, MCBA became interested in the work of the exceptional outsider artist Aloïse (1886–1964), a native of Vaud who had been committed to the Cery asylum in 1918.
Past exhibitions