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Travelling exhibition Following Photo Elysée’s successful collaboration with the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the exhibition Jean Mohr. War from the Victim’s Perspective (which was presented in 59 venues in 25 countries throughout the world), Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now is a contemporary art installation produced by the Musée...

Credits Curation Hannah Pröbsting, Photo Elysée Drawn from the collections of Photo Elysée, the exhibition Ferenc Berko: Fascination with the Ordinary presents 38 photographs from across the artist’s seven-decade career. Berko’s work spans much of the 20th century. From his early documentary photography of interwar Europe and his almost surreal...

Credits Curation Tatyana Franck and Émilie Delcambre Hirsch Scientific advisor Paul Frèches The exhibition Jan Groover: Laboratory of Forms, presented at Photo Elysée in 2019, looks back for the first time over the life’s work of Jan Groover (1943-2012), the American photographer whose personal collection was added to Photo Elysée’s...

A joint exhibition The exhibition Crossing Lines is part of the inaugural event Train Zug Treno Tren, which is shared by the three museums of Plateforme 10. Presented from June 18 to September 25, 2022, the three exhibitions, conceived by each of the museums of Plateforme 10, enrich the metaphor...

An evolving project This exhibition is a project that will evolve over several years, like collections or museums themselves that are constantly changing depending on the individuals involved and the varying historical contexts. For the next five years, ten themes, each composed of ten images, will be simultaneously shown to...

Video As part of the exhibition, Photo Elysée asked several people who worked with Josef Koudelka to share their memories and anecdotes. They evoke the multiple facets of the photographer's personality and work. Lars Willumeit, curator at Photo Elysée Stuart Alexander, historian of photography, curator, editor and archivist, founding member...

After being proclaimed a French invention in 1839 in Paris, photography quickly conquered all of Europe. Although the race for technical improvements began in the cultural centers, heavy cameras soon appeared in villages and the countryside, in remote valleys and in the mountains. In Switzerland, the emerging tourism industry played...