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Gen Z - L is for look
Exhibitions - 19.09.2025 – 01.02.2026
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Photographic Survey of the Canton of Vaud
Exhibition - 13.06 to 07.09.2025
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Soleil·s
Solar Biennale 2
Exhibition - 21.03 to 21.09.2025
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Back-to-school at Plateforme 10

This autumn, Plateforme 10 offers a rich and diverse programme. At mudac, the exhibition Soleil·s invites visitors to explore light in all its forms. The MCBA presents the winner of the 2025 Buchet Prize: Giulia Essyad. Finally, Photo Elysée showcases the Enquête photographique vaudoise.

The Collection

Permanent presentation

« 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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L is for Look

19.09.2025 – 01.02.2026

Co-produced by the Institut pour la photographie in Lille and Photo Elysée, L is for Look explores children’s photo books, from their industrial boom in the 1930s to the present day. Although this type of publication remains marginal in the publishing landscape, it bears witness to the evolution of our perception of photography, the history of education, and the status of children in Western societies over more than a century.

Children’s photobooks have benefited from the emergence of new image-centered teaching methods. Photography is finding its way into all areas of children’s literature, from picture books to fiction, including works with educational, pedagogical, or creative aims. By renewing this publishing genre, it is also opening up to new and original forms, thanks to the collaboration of graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and authors.

Giulia Essyad. Prix Gustave Buchet

12.09.2025 – 11.01.2026

Inspired by the architecture of transitional spaces, Giulia Essyad transforms the MCBA’s Espace Projet gallery into a sensory and spiritual labyrinth. Recipient of the 9th Gustave Buchet Prize, the Lausanne-born artist explores the mechanisms of desire and commodification through an immersive installation that weaves together DIY technologies, digital imagery, and personal memories.

Gen Z

19.09.2025 – 01.02.2026

Twenty years after opening its doors to emerging photographers with the landmark exhibition reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Photo Elysée reaffirms its commitment to supporting young talent with Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze.

This new exhibition brings together the work of 66 international artists, primarily from Generation Z – broadly defined as those born between the mid-1990s and 2010 – to explore the concerns of this generation.

Soleil·s

21.03 – 05.10.2025

From the spring equinox to the autumn equinox, mudac invites you to soak up the sun with the second Solar Biennale.

Upcoming events

Visite-conférence – Amour vache

09.10.2025

En lien avec l’exposition “AMOUR VACHE – À la vie, à la mort” organisée au Musée Eugène Burnand à Moudon, le MCBA propose une visite-conférence…

Sophie Cramatte
18h30 - 19h15
MCBA
Tout public
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Présentation et discussion – Projet DP CHUV-UNINE-MCBA

10.10.2025

Le Département de psychiatrie du CHUV, l’Université de Neuchâtel et le Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts œuvrent ensemble pour allier art, création de liens sociaux et…

Département de psychiatrie du CHUV, Institut de géographie de l’UNINE et le MCBA
18h00 - 19h30
MCBA - Atelier des publics
Adultes
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Vernissage – Vallotton Forever. La rétrospective

23.10.2025

Vernissage – Vallotton Forever. La rétrospective Jeudi 23 octobre 2025, 18h30 Le MCBA vous invite au vernissage public de l’exposition Vallotton Forever. La rétrospective 18h…

18h00 - 21h00
MCBA
Adultes

Visite professionnel.le.s champ social – Vallotton Forever

30.10.2025

Rencontre autour de l’exposition  “Vallotton Forever. La rétrospective” pour les professionnel.les du champ social qui souhaitent préparer et organiser des visites avec des jeunes hors…

médiatrice culturelle
10h00 - 11h30
MCBA
Professionnel.le.s du champ social
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Quartier des arts, Lausanne, Plateforme 10 et ses 3 musées

The new Arts District

PLATEFORME 10 is a one-of-a-kind site in Switzerland bringing together 3 canton-level museums and 2 foundations on a sprawling esplanade of nearly 25,000 square meters just a few steps from Lausanne’s main train station.

Inaugurated in 2019, the new building housing the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts (MCBA) led the way for the exciting adventure that is Plateforme 10. This was followed in 2022 by a new home for two other Lausanne institutions, Photo Elysée and mudac. As an arts district and lively public space right in the heart of Lausanne, Plateforme 10 offers everyone a unique opportunity to discover the diversity and interdisciplinarity of the arts and art making in the fine arts, photography and design.

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