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Expositions (155)
30.06 – 01.10.2023

Laia Abril

On Mass Hysteria Evil witches were accused and executed in Salem, while possessed nuns meowed and had seizures across Europe. Hand-trembling epidemics spread among Swiss and German boarding schools, and laughing attacks widespread among Tanzanian girl’s students. Female adolescents in Afghanistan experienced fainting outbreaks, while over 600 boarding schoolgirls suddenly...
30.06 – 01.10.2023

Open Books

An interactive device Open Books gradually reveals the thread that weaves itself through the pages. At the centre of the show, Photo Elysée and EPFL+ECAL Lab present an interactive, immersive device devoted to digital books. This experimental approach uses emerging technologies combined with design research to offer a new form...
30.06 – 01.10.2023

Debi Cornwall

Model Citizens Selected among the eight nominated projects of the Prix Elysée 2023, "Debi Cornwall's work is in line with current events", underlines the jury, "and is an important contribution that is timely, given the effect of fake news in our societies. Throught her research, the artist questions the blurred...
05.11.2022 – 29.01.2023

Josef Koudelka

Vidéo 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...
Until 11.06.2023

Sabine Weiss

Credits Curation Virginie Chardin Sabine Weiss (1924-2021) is one of the key representatives of the post-war movement that is usually referred to in France as "humanist photography" and which includes photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis or Edouard Boubat. Reportage, illustration, fashion, advertising, artist portraits as well as her...
30.06 – 27.08.2023

Jagoda Wisniewska × Arsenic

Video Artists Jagoda Wisniewska Born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 1987, Jagoda Wisniewska studied photography at Napier University in Edinburgh, and then at the ECAL. Her work focuses on concepts of performativity and portraiture. Her projects examine the roles attributed to women, especially in the domestic realm, and explore the age-old...
03.11.2023 – 25.02.2024

Deborah Turbeville

The work of Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) defies classification. The American photographer belonged to no school or movement. Her unique visual signature has been recognisable since she emerged as a major talent in the 1970s; a certain timelessness melancholy and a patina emanate from her haunting photographs taken over four decades....
03.11.2023 – 25.02.2024

Richard Mosse

Teaser Video Podcast Photo Elysée · Richard Mosse on "Broken Spectre" Richard Mosse Richard Mosse (Ireland, 1980) lives and works in New York. Mosse works at the very limits of documentary photography, appropriating imaging technologies to depict humanitarian and environmental crises in a powerful new light. His projects are presented...
03.11.2023 – 25.02.2024

Virginie Otth

Video A key figure in contemporary photography in Lausanne, Virginie Otth (Switzerland, 1971) presents four previously unseen works, as well as her first film. This monographic exhibition brings together works that combine the various interests and reflections that have animated the artist for many years, and which question the relationship...
Until 23.05.2024

Dialogues On Humanity

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Following Photo Elysée's successful collaboration with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs on the exhibition Humanitarian Principles. Here and Now (which was shown at 22 venues in 11 countries around the world), a new exhibition, Dialogues On Humanity, has been launched. Produced by Photo Elysée, the Swiss...