mudac (Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts) is a museum in Lausanne dedicated to contemporary design and applied arts. Established in 1967 as the Musée des arts décoratifs de La Ville de Lausanne, it changed its name to mudac in 2000. The museum’s collection spans multiple disciplines, including graphic design, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, and textiles, reflecting the evolving boundaries of applied arts.
Architecture
Since June 2022, the two museums Photo Elysée and mudac share a building designed by the Portuguese architecture firm Aires Mateus. For more details about the building's architectural concept and distinctive features, visit https://dominikgehl.com/lausanne-mudac-photo-elysee.
Current Exhibition(s)
We Will Survive
2024-09-13 - 2025-02-09
The exhibition We Will Survive delves into the prepper movement, examining how individuals and governments respond to existential threats and prepare for catastrophic events. Featuring over 400 works, including speculative designs, architectural models, photographs, and apocalyptic film clips, it explores the mindset of preppers who believe in "the end of the world as we know it" and their strategies to survive and rebuilt a new world.
We will survive
We will survive
We will survive
We will survive
Past Exhibitions
Objets de désir
2024-03-08 - 2024-08-04
The exhibition highlights surrealism's enduring influence on design through its fantastical motifs, subversive approach, and exploration of the human psyche. Bringing together furniture, graphic design, fashion, photography, and more, it features iconic pieces by artists and designers including Le Corbusier and Man Ray.
Objets de désir
creative space
Objets de désir
Objets de désir
Objets de désir
Objets de désir
Marilyn sofa by Studio 65 and Salvador Dali painting
Space is the place
2023-09-08 - 2024-02-04
The first exhibition, Cosmos, examines the universe from Earth's perspective, highlighting designers’ and artists’ fascination with astrophysics and the beauty of the cosmos. The second, Terra, shifts focus to humanity’s techno-scientific ambitions to control and manipulate the planet, reflecting on ideas rooted in the Enlightenment and intensified by industrialization and geoengineering.
Space is the place
Black Hole rug by Daniel Malik, 2016
Space is the place
Space is the place - cartography
Space is the place
A Chair and You
2022-10-28 - 2023-02-26
"A Chair and You" showcases one of the world's largest private collections of chairs by artists, designers, and architects, amassed by Thierry Barbier-Mueller since the 1990s. Renowned director Robert Wilson has crafted an immersive, theatrical scenography, transforming the exhibition into a grand opera where chairs take center stage as actors in dramatic settings enhanced by sound and light.
A Chair and You
A Chair and You
A Chair and You
A Chair and You
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