Atlas. A Cartography of Donation

In honour of the long-awaited opportunity for a permanent display of the canton’s rich art collections, the inaugural exhibition Atlas. A Cartography of Donation presents the museum’s holdings across the MCBA’s almost 3,200 square metres of exhibition space.

The exceptional exhibition draws up MCBA’s own atlas, sparking a dialogue between works from different generations and artistic schools. Each space has its own theme, from music, forests, and flux, to a map of the heart, a cartography of pain, and an exploration of the color black, offering one possible reading of the museum’s collections to visitors encountering the new exhibition spaces for the first time.

In choosing to develop an ambitious curatorial approach taking the means of acquisition as its common factor, MCBA’s new premises open with a representative selection of gifts and long-term loans from the collections, featuring works donated specifically for the new museum alongside significant older donations, including the Widmer bequests of 1936 and 1939. Pride of place is given to recent donations by Alice Pauli, with works by Soulages, Kiefer, Penone, and Kapoor among others, and a number of pieces by major artists including Rodin, Klee, Balthus, G. Giacometti, Vallotton, Soutter, and Zao Wou-Ki.

Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Alÿs, Emanuelle Antille, John M Armleder, Eduardo Arroyo, Richard Artschwager, Kader Attia, René Auberjonois, Caroline Bachmann & Stefan Banz, Alice Bailly, Miroslaw Balka, Stephan Balkenhol, Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), Georg Baselitz, Ernest Biéler, Charles Blanc-Gatti, François Bocion, Sophie Bouvier-Ausländer, Louise Breslau, Marcel Broodthaers, Gustave Buchet, Eugène Burnard, Miriam Cahn, Alexandre Calame, Sophie Calle, Gustave Castan, Émile Chambon, Julian Charrière, Franklin Chow, Jean Clerc, Philippe Cgnée, Delpjine Coindet, Claudia Compte, Gustave Courbet, Sylvain Croci-Torti, Jean Crotti, Stéphane Dafflon, Émile David, Philippe Decrauzat, Silvie & Chérif Defraui, Maurice Debis, André Derain, Jim Dine, François Dubois, Jean Dubuffet, Louis Ducros, Marlene Dumas, Charles Errard, Luciano Fabro, Helmut Federle, Michel François, Gunter Frentzel, Frantz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Charles Giron, Charles Gleyre, Renée Green, Jean-Samson Guignard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ferdinand Hodler, David Hominal, Gottfried Honegger, Louise Hopkins, Rebecca Horn, Thomas Huber, Alain Huck, Leiko Ikemura, Robert Ireland, Rolf Iseli, Ji Dachun, Asger Jorn, Emily Kngwarreye, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Pierre Keller, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Charles-François Knebel, Vincent Kohler, Yannis Kounellis, Cornelis Krusemann, Jean Lecloutre, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Wei Liu, Mingjun Luo, Vicenzo Maganza, Jean-Luc Manz, Genêt Mayor, Philippe Mercier, Mario Merz, Constantin Meunier, Jonathan Monk, François Morellet, Olivier Mosset, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Plinio Novellini, Karim Noureldin, Amédee Ozenfant, Flavio Paolucci, Simon Patterson, Sandrine Pelletier, Giuseppe Penone, Carmen Perrin, Kathleen Petyarre, Philomene Pirecki, Éric Poitevin, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Claudia Renna, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Didier Rittener, Steven-Paul Robert, Auguste Rodin, Louis Frédéric Rouge, Théodore Rousseau, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, Jacques Sablet, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Yoshishige Saito, Hans Sandreuter, Pietro Sarto, Denis Savary, Pierre Schwerzmann, Francine Simonin, Smith/Steward, Louis Soutter, Pierre Soulages, Théophile-Aöexandre Steinlen, Ella Surville, Tsai Hsia-Ling, Félix Vallotton, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Albert-Edgar Yersin, Yoshihara Michio, Zao Wou-Ki, Rémy Zaug.

Curator: Bernard Fibicher, Director

Source: MCBA
Press release MCBA.

PLATEFORME 10
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
Switzerland