Museum Elysée

Steeve Iuncker: Se mettre au monde

25.05.2016 - 28.08.2016

Le photographe Steeve Iuncker a mené une recherche de plusieurs années sur le passage de l’enfance à l’âge adulte, interrogeant l’absence de rites clairement identifiés dans nos sociétés laïques. Ses images captent des actes d’adolescents qui s’apparentent à des rites inconscients. Prises de risques, qu&ec... weiter

La Mémoire du futur

25.05.2016 - 28.08.2016

Avec l’exposition La Mémoire du futur. Dialogues photographiques entre passé, présent et futur, le Musée de l’Elysée invite la création contemporaine à se pencher sur les fondamentaux du médium photographique, innove en dévoilant une technologie de numérisation 3D développée par Artmyn, une spin-off ... weiter

Anonymats dÂ’aujourdÂ’hui

28.01.2016 - 22.05.2016

Quelle place la ville contemporaine donne-t-elle à l’individu ? Il est d’usage de dire que les métropoles actuelles sont anonymes, brassant des masses humaines dans lesquelles le citadin se noie. L’isolement dans la masse qu’implique l’anonymat urbain n’est pourtant pas uniforme. Facteur d’exclusion lorsque la cité ne souhaite pas r... weiter

The memory of images

18.09.2015 - 03.01.2016

Founded in 1896 by the pastor Paul-Louis Vionnet (1830-1914), the iconographic collection of the Canton of Vaud became part of the Musée de l’Elysée’s collections in the 1980s. It now contains hundreds of thousands of images covering the history of the medium. This collection chronicles the beginnings of documentary photography applied to the inventory of local heritag... weiter

reGeneration

29.05.2015 - 23.08.2015

The Musée de l'Elysée presents the third edition of reGeneration, an international exhibition and publication project dedicated to emerging photographers, started in 2005. Out of the 300 applications received, 50 artists proposed by some forty international arts academies have been selected. The works chosen, from purely documentary approaches to performance andexplorations ... weiter

Prix Elysée 2014, the NomineesÂ’ Exhibition

30.01.2015 - 03.05.2015

The Prix Elysée is a prize that supports production in the field of photography. It is the result of a partnership between the Musée de l’Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier, offering financial aid and museum support to eight artists who are passionate about photography and books. They were selected by the museum among over 400 applications received from around the world. ... weiter

Photobooks. Elysée

30.01.2015 - 03.05.2015

In 2014, the Musée de l’Elysée received a sizeable collection ofphotography books assembled by Christoph Schifferli. Over 5,000 books, most of them rare or unique, were added to the museum library’s 12,000 books. Over the past twelve years, following various exhibitions and publications, especially those by Martin Parr, photography books have become collection object... weiter

William Eggleston: From Black and White to Color

30.01.2015 - 03.05.2015

“I had to face the fact that what I had to do was go out into foreign landscapes. What was new back then were shopping centers, and I took pictures of them.” William Eggleston At the end of the 1950s, Eggleston began to take photographs near his home in the South of United States using black-and-white 35 mm film. Fascinated by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston declared ... weiter

Chaplin, between war and peace

17.09.2014 - 04.01.2015

Should Charlie Chaplin keep making films or enter the trenches? The controversy over the fact that the British actor was not fighting alongside his own people erupted in 1915. At the beginning of his glory, Chaplin was already confronted by criticism. Twenty-five years later, it was his turn to question moral and political convictions at the dawn of the Second World War. In 1914, Americans di... weiter

Amos Gitai: Architect of memory

17.09.2014 - 04.01.2015

Dedicated to the work of Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, this exhibition is a coproduction with the Swiss Film Archive, the Cinemathèque française and Galeries, Brussels. Created from his archives, this multimedia project explores forty years of work, combining rare documents, film extracts and photographs. The exhibition reveals themes that are important to him: boundaries, archite... weiter

Gilles Peress: Telex Iran

17.09.2014 - 30.11.2014

Gilles Peress has intransigently documented the darkest chapters of modern history, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to the mass graves in Bosnia and Rwanda. In 1979, he went to Iran to photograph the revolution at its height, during the hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran. He captured the chaos and the contrasts between the various political and religious circles of influence, the ... weiter

Anonymes? Des Avantages de L`Auteur Méconnu

04.06.2014 - 24.08.2014

Comme la plupart des musées, le Musée de l’Elysée possède dans ses collections un certain nombre d’œuvres cataloguées comme « anonymes ». Des photographies dont on ne connaît pas avec certitude - ou pas du tout – l’auteur. L’identité de cet auteur inconnu peut être parfois entr’aper&ccedi... weiter

Matthieu Gafsou: Only god can jugde me

04.06.2014 - 24.08.2014

Winner of the 2009 HSBC Foundation for Photography Prize, and exhibited in reGeneration2 at Musée de l’Elysée the following year, Lausanne photographer Matthieu Gafsou has distinguished himself through his formal and critical approach to the contemporary urban landscape. Subsequent works, such as Alpes (2008-2012) - a collection of perspectives that question the status of ... weiter

Luc Chessex: Cherchez la Femme

04.06.2014 - 24.08.2014

Luc Chessex lived in Cuba from 1961 to 1975. As a member of the Prensa Latina agency and photo editor for the magazine Cuba internacional, he was an involved witness of the revolution. The Musée de l'Elysée is presenting four series of photographs from that time: Cherchez la Femme [Search for the Woman], Le Visage de la Révolution [The Face of the Revolution], Che and C... weiter

Philippe Halsman: Astonish me!

29.01.2014 - 11.05.2014

“In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.” Photographer Philippe Halsman had an exemplary career. Over a forty-year period, in Paris during the 1930s and in New York from 1940 on, ... weiter

Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis

20.09.2013 - 05.01.2014

Genesis is a global photographic quest in which the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado rediscovers places and peoples that have so far escaped the footprint of modern society. Since 2004, he has undertaken some 30 journeys to the ends of the world, exploring the planet to build a long-term photographic project about the environment, always in black and white. He sailed over oceans,... weiter

Christian Lutz: Trilogie

05.06.2013 - 01.09.2013

New York, 2003, spectacular security frenzy around the President of the Swiss Confederation Pascal Couchepin – a striking image to the eye of the photographer present at the scene. Christian Lutz thus invited himself in the suitcases of the ministerial delegation and documented its various official activities during three years. The first volume of what will become a trilogy on the issue ... weiter

Phill Niblock: Nothin'but working

30.01.2013 - 12.05.2013

Born in 1933, Phill Niblock has produced, over more than fifty years, a multidisciplinary work. His “Intermedia Art” features a combination of minimalist music, conceptual art, structural cinema, systematic or even political art, and has actively contributed to transform our perception and experience of time. This retrospective is presented simultaneously at the Musée de l&rs... weiter

Gilles Caron: The conflict within

30.01.2013 - 12.05.2013

Gilles Caron embodies the ideal of the heroic reporter. Whilst proclaiming the presence of a developing crisis within his profession, the side effects on a human scale of his heroic engagements are clearly expressed though his images. The Conflict Within of Caron is also one of an entire generation : what is the purpose of his action? Furthermore, do his images provide a valid testimony of the ... weiter

Luciano Rigolini: Concept car

21.09.2012 - 06.01.2013

Born in Ticino in 1950, the artist Luciano RigoliniÂ’s interest for vernacular photography questions this particular mode of representation of the real. He carefully collects neutral images of objects or urban furniture, removed of any human presence or trace, such as the photographs made for sales or industrial documentation catalogues. With Concept Car, Luciano Rigolini deals with the theme o... weiter

Freaks, The Monstrous Parade

21.09.2012 - 06.01.2013

American director Tod Browning (1880-1962) has a particular attraction for the uncanny. Freaks, his cult movie shot in 1932, is inspired by a short story written by Clarence Aaron « Tod » Robbins. Set in a circus, the performers are disabled actors. The movie caused tremendous scandals when it was released and Freaks was soon censored, reedited, shortened, sometimes removed from theaters, an... weiter

Howard Greenberg

21.09.2012 - 06.01.2013

Howard Greenberg has been a gallery owner for thirty years now and is considered today one of the pillars of the New York photography scene. While his role as a dealer is well established, less is known about his passion for collecting. It has remained quite confidential and is now being exposed. This collection of over 500 photographs was patiently built over the last thirty years and stands out... weiter

Pieter Hugo: This must be the place

08.06.2012 - 02.09.2012

This exhibition will be the first major monographic show of South-African photographer Pieter Hugo, born in 1976. In addition to a large number of unrealesed works, the exhibition will also feature very well known series such as The Hyena & other Men, the strange Nollywood, and the stunning Permament Error. As always, his remarkable portraits tell the story of people on the margins of society ... weiter