Photo Elysée

A new identity, a new building, a new chapter

On September 23, 2021, the Musée de l’Elysée will adopt a new identity: Photo Elysée. Closely linked to our move to Plateforme 10, our new identity puts photography first and reinforces our primary mission: to promote the photographic medium in all its forms.

Through a semantic and graphic play, Photo Elysée invites you to see - to see differently, to see further. The logo can be integrated transparently or in contrast on all communication media, digital or traditional, in a nod to the colour codes used in photography.

Created by the graphic design agency Gavillet & Cie, based in Geneva and Lausanne, Photo Elysée aims to be bold and international. Another key component of the identity is the typographical design, developed by Swiss graphic designer François Rappo. Geometric, precise and finely wrought, it states loud and clear the museum’s qualities and unique character.

The new identity in video

L'Elysée hors champ

"There was one prerequisite: not to touch the word Elysée. So that's what we did while gravitating around it, thinking about what we could subtract, add or modify from the old name," explains Gilles Gavillet, founder of Gavillet & Cie.

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Other news

11.01.2023

Prix Elysée at artgenève

Find an installation dedicated to the Prix Elysée in the heart of the artgenève fair, which will be held in Geneva from January 26 to 29, 2023. The occasion to discover the books dedicated to the work of the 8 nominees of the current edition: Vincen Beeckman, Debi Cornwall, Siân Davey, Nicolai Howalt, Khashayar Javanmardi, Alice Mann, Gloria Oyarzabal and Virginie Rebetez.

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artgenève
Palexpo Geneva
From January 26 to 29, 2023

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29.11.2022

The Christmas Selection

The holidays are fast approaching and we have thought of you!

A varied Christmas selection of photographic books and design objects awaits you at the Photo Elysée and mudac shop.

Photographic books

  • Olivier Christinat, Pas un jour sans une nuit, Actes Sud, October 2022
  • Magali Koenig, Courir après la pluie, Actes Sud, October 2022
  • Vincent Jendly, Lux in tenebris, Vevey Images, September 2022
  • Rahel Oberhummer, Unearthed" autoédité, September 2022
  • Nicolas Rouvière, Chute, Keribus-PhotoElyse, September 2022

Design objects

  • Jewelry of Anaïde Davoudlarian
  • Jewelry by Dorothée Loustalot
  • Renaud Defrancesco, Vases flottants, 2020
  • Sylvie Godel and Jonas Meylan, Chairs in porcelain, colored resin, 2022
  • Adrien Rovero, Sedie 1 :20, 2010

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