Fotomuseum Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is on the one hand an art gallery for photography by contemporary photographers and artists (with exhibitions by Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Boris Mikhailov). On the other, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is also a traditional museum for works by 19th and 20th century masters (with exhibitions by Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Weegee and others). And finally, it is a cultural-historical, sociological museum of applied photography in the fields of industry, architecture, fashion, etc. (with exhibitions on police photography, industrial photography, dam-construction photography, medical photography etc.). These three orientations form the basis of the museum's exhibition program and accompanying publications and events.

This museum greets you in the following languages: D/E
Opening 1993

Current exhibitions

Situations/Deviant

19.10.2019 - 23.02.2020

Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the newest cluster Deviant as part of its ongoing exhibition format 'Situations'. The artistic positions examine the mechanisms of socio-cultural normalisation and deviation.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/E

Because the Night

07.12.2019 - 16.02.2020

The themed exhibition Because the Night is dedicated to the motif of night, with all the promise that it holds. Photographic works present the events of those special hours in a variety of (socio)cultural and topographical settings.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/E