Mudac - Museum für Design und angewandte zeitgenössische Kunst

What will we read?

23.03.2016 - 21.08.2016

Mudac is pleased to present the first exhibition on reading... without any books! Realising that reading, far from disappearing, is a pleasure that is now available in multiple and unexpected forms, What will we read? is an ode to the joy of reading, inspired by writer Daniel Pennac's 10 rights of the reader. Stories hide in whispering cushions, take us into virtual and immersive worlds, ar... weiter

Safe and Sound

23.03.2016 - 21.08.2016

Today's society is full of instructions and mandatory actions relating to safety or the anticipation of danger. Countless security instructions detail procedures to avoid any risk in the public space while double door entrances control access to a growing number of places. Our faces, bodies, fingerprints and pupils are repeatedly scanned. Western society is moving towards ultra-security, to... weiter

This is not a bottle!

18.11.2015 - 05.05.2016

Collaboration with the Musée valaisan de la vigne et du vin in Sierre Wine has always been an important part of Switzerland's history, and remains so today. The two museums accordingly decided to investigate the containers that carry the precious beverage from the cellar to the table. The intention is not to recount the history and usage of the glass bottle, but to map out the relati... weiter

Extra Ball

05.06.2015 - 03.04.2016

Le mudac présente une sélection de 18 vitres de flipper datant des années 1950 à 1980, récemment déposées au mudac par le collectionneur Pierre Gonset. Témoignages populaires des goûts et des événements de leur temps, elles représentent de véritables joyaux graphiques, où illustrations et typographi... weiter

Freitag ad absurdum

28.10.2015 - 28.02.2016

The Freitag brothers join forces with the conceptual artists Frank & Patrik Riklin for their carte blanche at the mudac. The four brother share an approach and a common attitude regarding fundamental issues such as resource-oriented actions, the pleasure of social interaction and an interest in thinking and acting in cycles. Their project does not start at the mudac but in the public spac... weiter

Futur archaïque

28.10.2015 - 28.02.2016

This exhibition showcases the link that is apparent today between the future - whether immediate, near or distant - and the past, the historical. It highlights the way in which designers can create objects that cut through the distractions of modern life to reveal our forgotten roots, while integrating the latest technologies. By exploring the resurgence of archaic forms in design, the project ... weiter

Living Glass II

18.03.2015 - 01.11.2015

Thanks to the generosity of our patron, whose family started the mudac's collection of glass art in 1970, our holdings have expanded considerably in recent years. Exploring the paths of contemporary design in all their diversity, these new works reflect the most recent developments in the use of glass. The second part of Living Glass presents a broad selection of works acquired between 2012... weiter

Telling Time

27.05.2015 - 27.09.2015

The aim of Telling Time is to initiate a dialogue between the history of the watch and the way in which contemporary designers and plastic artists have chosen to tackle the concept of time and how it is presented. Each of these areas brings its own particular resonance, its own cargo of poetry and aesthetic references, its own innovative strength and limitless creativity, to what is an unusual,... weiter

Nirvana - Strange forms of pleasure

29.10.2014 - 26.04.2015

Nirvana is the first comprehensive exploration of the influence of erotica in design, fashion and contemporary art. By turns cheeky, luxurious and mysterious, the exhibition presents the work of around one hundred contemporary creators who make use of an iconography connected with sensual pleasure, drawing inspiration from erotic and fetishist literature, and from the images, objects and garmen... weiter

Living Glass

11.12.2013 - 01.02.2015

Mudac's latest contemporary glass art exhibition, Living Glass, presents a broad selection of works and installations by today's glass creators of many nationalities-Swiss, European, American and Asian. Bearing witness to the very idea of glass art, pieces ranging from sculpture to edition design all translate the museum conservation team's open and ongoing approach, as assisted and... weiter

Jacques-Edouard Berger collection

15.12.2012 - 31.12.2014

Death in all its facets: from the treatment of the dead to the funerary customs, a deep look at the Egyptian Hereafter. China from Beyond the Grave The galleries devoted to Asia feature a selection of some sixty objects that evoke the rituals and beliefs of China in the period from the 3rd millenium before our era to the 19th century. weiter

No Name Design

31.10.2013 - 09.02.2014

For several decades now, Franco Clivio, a creator and lecturer, notably at the Zurich Schule für Gestaltung (School of Design) has, with a passion and a rare perspicacity, gone about collecting everyday objects usually considered commonplace and hardly spectacular. These he classes by functions, or into system typologies, materials or for­mal families; his collection is featured in a p... weiter

Mastering Design

31.10.2013 - 09.02.2014

The mudac has made a habit of offering its spaces to recent graduates of the Swiss universities of art and design. The recent decision of Swiss federal authorities to discontinue their sponsorship for our presentation of the winners of the Swiss Federal Design Prizes every two years has incited us to open our doors to the latest generation of European creators, as a way of exploring recent tren... weiter

Would You Like A Bag With That?

19.06.2013 - 06.10.2013

A readapted and completed version of a show originally conceived by the Winterthur Gewerbemuseum in 2012. Since around the 1960s, plastic bags have been part and parcel of our everyday life as consumers. As such, they have come to represent a high-stakes threat to the world environment, with a utility span measured in minutes and an estimated lifespan of over 400 years! Billions of plastic ba... weiter

The Furnace of the Angels and All'Ambic

27.02.2013 - 22.09.2013

The mudac presents La Fucina degli angeli (The Furnace of the Angels), the name given by Jean Cocteau to an exceptional set of 36 works realised during the 1960's and bearing such prestigious signatures as Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Jean Lurçat, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. weiter

Pop-Up

22.11.2012 - 03.03.2013

Conceived by the famous trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, the exhibition explores the blurred boarder between 2D and 3D, analog and digital, culture and capital, science and art, nature and technology, the local an the global, by presenting artists and designers who embody this trend.weiter

Ronan Bouroullec and Patricia Urquiola

26.10.2012 - 03.02.2013

A double presentation dedicated to glass design: French designer Ronan Bouroullec's workshop with the ECAL students and the Swiss glassblower Matteo Gonet on new glass working tools and Patricia Urquiola's 2011 vase series All Ambic, inspired by retorts and stills.weiter

Carte blanche to Adrien Rovero. Landscale

04.07.2012 - 28.10.2012

A graduate of ECAL, the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Lausanne, Adrien Rovero opened his studio in Renens in 2006. Working in the furniture and exhibition design sectors, he has developed an uncluttered and effective, often offbeat, style that draws inspiration from his close scrutiny of everyday life. He enjoys assembling and repurposing shapes, materials, references and uses. Adrien Rovero... weiter

TOUCH. The World at your Fingertips

04.07.2012 - 28.10.2012

The mudac and the Claude Verdan Foundation – Musée de la main [Museum of the Hand] join forces to present a unique exhibition spanning both sites. This tribute to the sense of touch immerses the visitor in the many forms of our sensory, and sometimes sensual, relationship with the world. The sense of touch may be pleasant, unsettling, repulsive, magical, annoying, instructive or painful, but... weiter

Ettore Sottsass and Pierre Charpin. Challenge Defying Glass Design

23.11.2011 - 07.10.2012

In the wake of its Post Mortem show featuring funerary urns by ten creators, and the succeeding In vino veritas presentation by Matali Crasset, mudac pursues its fascination with designer glass editions by showcasing the work of Ettore Sottsass and Pierre Charpin. A major figure on the design scene, Ettore Sottsass, who passed away in 2007, founded the Memphis Group in 1981, earning international... weiter

Couleur 3 - 30 years

07.03.2012 - 10.06.2012

Lausanne, 1982: In the heart of winter, the RSR (French-speaking Switzerland Radio) network launched a new public radio station, "Couleur 3." In no time at all, the station made a name for itself, thanks to its offbeat tone and somewhat biting humor, together with broadcasts dedicated to not only music, but also comic strips, film and video games. Lausanne, 2012: Thirty years later, the... weiter

Flavia Cocchi

07.03.2012 - 10.06.2012

After attending Geneva's School of Applied [NB: le texte d'hier parle de l'Ecole des Arts Visuels] Arts in the mid-eighties and working in Werner Jeker's studio in Lausanne, the graphic designer Flavia Cocchi opened her own studio in 1997, upon completion of a stint with Massimo Vignelli at Benetton in Italy. It is to Flavia Cocchi, commissioned by the mudac on a regular basis sin... weiter