Musée cantonal des beaux-arts

Le musée cantonal des beaux-arts détient une très riche collection de peintures, dessins, sculptures et petite collection d’estampes d’artistes suisses et surtout vaudois du 18e s. à nos jours (les frères Sablet, Ducros, Saint-Ours, Diday, Calame, Gleyre, van Muyden, David, Auberjonois, Buchet, Biéler, Bocion, Vautier, Anker, Borgeaud, Holder, G. Giacometti, Hermanjat, Soutter, Vallotton, Steinlen, Bailly, Rollier, Spoerri, Iseli, Cahn, Disler, etc.). Le legs Widmer présente une collection d’art français (Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Bonnard, Marquet, Matisse, Utrillo). Le fonds d’art contemporain comprend des œuvres d’artistes suisses et étrangers (Rainer, Merz, Ikemura, Oppenheim, Verjux, Nauman, Boltanski, Jaar, Green).

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Opening 1906

Current exhibitions

The collection

12.05.2020 - 31.12.2022

The collection is on permanent display for the first time: some 300 works, from the 18th century to the present make it possible to see here what cannot be found elsewhere!

Free admission

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

Unique et multiple. Recent Works from the BCV Art Collection

23.09.2021 - 09.01.2022

An overview of a corporate collection that has followed the contemporary art scene in Vaud for a half century now. Under the direction of Catherine Othenin-Girard, curator of the BCV Art Collection, the show is a multifaceted approach that sheds light on current trends and experiments, drawing on acquisitions from the last 10 years, including works by Caroline Bachmann, Julian Charrière, Claudia Comte, Sylvain Croci-Torti, Philippe Decrauzat, Silvie Defraoui, etc.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E
Entrée gratuite

Francis Alÿs. As Long As I’m Walking

15.10.2021 - 16.01.2022

This solo show devoted to Francis Alÿs (b. 1959) presents an overview of the artist’s work in video, painting, and drawing, with special emphasis on one of the central themes of his practice, the act of walking, from urban strolls to exploring territories and their borders. Among his recent works figures a selection from the series Children’s Games, in which the imaginary spaces of childhood join the artist’s
fictional spaces.

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

Aloïse

22.10.2021 - 23.01.2022

In the 1960s, MCBA became interested in the work of the exceptional outsider artist Aloïse (1886–1964), a native of Vaud who had been committed to the Cery asylum in 1918. The show takes us into a world that is rich in symbols, erotic, and sumptuously filled with flowers, animals, emperors, queens, and opera singers.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E
Entrée gratuite