Photo Elysée is closed until March 6, 2026, for the installation of new exhibitions. Opening reception on March 5 at 6 pm – save the date!
Photo Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier are pleased to announce the identity of the winner of the Prix Elysée 2023: American photographer Debi Cornwall, was selected by an international jury of experts amongst eight nonimated project. He current series, Model Citizens, will be on view at the Museum June 30-October 1,2023.
This spring, Photo Elysée is offering three new exhibitions to discover from March 3, 2023:
Josef Koudelka. Ikonar, After Nature and #Ukraine are on view at Photo Elysée until January 29, 2023. An overview of the 2023 program announces a year rich in projects, promoting contemporary artists and the museum's collections.
After the inaugural period that ended on September 25, Photo Elysée presents its fall program, with two exhibitions that will open on Saturday, November 5, 2022: Josef Koudelka. Ikonar. Archival constellations and After nature. Swiss Photography in the 19th Century, as well as a focus on Ukraine in the LabElysée, opening on November 17, 2022.
From September 28 to November 11, 2022, UBS and Photo Elysée present a temporary exhibition entitled Monique Jacot. The figure and its doubles. The public will be able to discover a selection of the artist's photographs from the museum's collections in the main hall of UBS, Place Saint-François 16 in Lausanne.
The eight nominated projects for the fifth edition of the Prix Elysée were revealed Wednesday, July 6, at an event during the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles. Launched in 2014 with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier, the Prix Elysée offers financial support, curatorial guidance and significant visibility to mid-career artists with a passion for photography and books, so that they can take a decisive step in their careers.
629 days after its closure to prepare its move to Platform 10, Photo Elysée will reopen its doors to the public on Saturday 18 and 19 June 2022 during a festive inaugural weekend. An institution resolutely open to all photography, Photo Elysée offers a boldly redesigned museum.
The new building that is now home to Photo Elysée and mudac is inaugurating its exhibition spaces in June 2022, enabling them to deploy their museum activities and move on to a new stage in their development. Together with the MCBA, they present an exhibition theme in common devoted to the imagery inspired by railroads and train stations. Plateforme 10 is now a cultural hub that cannot be overlooked, making the City of Lausanne definitively the capital of culture for French-speaking Switzerland.
A curator, art and photography historian, Nathalie Herschdorfer is appointed Director of Photo Elysée by the Plateforme 10 Foundation. She will take on the position starting June 1, 2022, after being the Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Le Locle, Switzerland since 2014. She is very well acquainted with our institution as she worked for the museum for over ten years as curator and exhibition director (from 1998 to 2010).
Exceptional donation from a private collection of 100 vintage photographs of the private world of Pablo Picasso taken between 1956 and 1973 by David Douglas Duncan, the famous American war photographer, as well as two portraits of Pablo Picasso and David Douglas Duncan by Gjon Mili, plus a print by Judy Caravaglia.
