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/The Right to Look

29.02.2020 - 18.10.2020

In the context of networked, algorithmic image practices, SITUATIONS/The Right to Look reflects on the diversity and ambiguity of the various gazes that encounter each other in the photographic image.

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

Street. Life. Photography

12.09.2020 - 10.01.2021

The exhibition Street. Life. Photography presents one of the most exciting photographic themes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: street photography.

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