Collections
STATUETTE IN THE FORM OF TAWARET (TOERIS)
EGYPT
LOW PERIOD
SELF-ENAMELLED CLAY
Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
MERTSEGER
EGYPT
LOW PERIOD
SELF-ENAMELLED SILICEOUS CLAY (INV. 312)
Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
BULLOCKS
CHINA
TANG DYNASTY
GLAZED AND PIGMENTED EARTHENWARE
Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
FUNERARY FIGURES OF RIDERS
CHINA
TANG DYNASTY
PAINTED EARTHENWARE
Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
BODDHISATTVA GUANYIN
CHINA
YUAN OR MING DYNASTY
BRONZE
Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
Jacques-Edouard Berger
Deposited with the City of Lausanne by the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, the collections of ancient Egyptian and Asian art amassed during his lifetime by Jacques-Edouard Berger, art historian, lecturer, organiser and accompanier of cultural trips, are presented at the mudac by means of exhibitions on a rotational basis. One gallery is dedicated to ancient Egyptian art, while two other rooms present objects from Asia, for the most part Chinese but also Indian, Tibetan and Japanese.
Two experts, an Egyptologist and a specialist in Chinese art, collaborate with the mudac to select objects and derive interesting themes from them, such as Literati Stones and Imaginary Landscapes, The World of Buddhism, Gods and Men in Ancient Egypt and Animals of the Far East. Guided tours are offered once a month on a Sunday.
Exhibitions currently showing: " Small Everyday Pleasures in Ancient Egypt " and " China from Beyond the Grave"
The database of the collection can be consulted online at the following address: http://musees.lausanne.ch/
Philip Baldwin et Monica Guggisberg
"Figura dell’Ora blú", 1997
Blown and cut glass
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Giles Bettison
Proximity #59, 2004
Murrine blown glass
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Frantisek Vizner
"Yellow Plate", 2003
Cast glass, cut and polished
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Josepha Gasch-Muche
"23.01.2006"
Broken glass pieces glued on wood panel
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Jana Sterbak
"Hard Entry", 2003
Blown glass
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Pablo Picasso
Egidio Costantini
"Figura", 1963
slumped glass
Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Rirkrit Tirvanija
"Infinity Pan", 2003
Borosilicate glass, Collection of mudac, Lausanne
Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
Contemporary glass art
The second floor of the mudac houses creations centred around a unique material: glass. Glass – a newcomer among artistic materials, ranging from lead crystal to flat industrial glass, by way of solid glass – underwent a revival during the course of the 20th century. It was known under its utilitarian and decorative forms, but what about glass as art?
The mudac offers visitors the chance to come and explore the history and present condition of glass art. Thanks to this remarkable collection, built up in close collaboration with its patrons since the early 1970s,
it is possible to see the themes and diverse techniques chosen by approximately 310 artists whose works are displayed in rotation. Visitors will understand what it is about glass that fascinates artists and why they choose glass to express themselves. The fact is that working with glass is a matter of giving substance to light, revealing it, giving it nuances and making it sparkle.
The database of the collection can be consulted online at the following address: http://musees.lausanne.ch/
Fernando et Humberto Campana pour Edra, chaise
« Jenette », 1999.
Caroline Andrin, vase « de l’emballage à l’objet », 2003.
Edouard Chapallaz, vase, 1976.
Magdalena Gerber, « Teller Stories », 2001-05.
Hella Jongerius pour DMD, « Soft Vases », 1993.
Philippe Starck pour Alessi, brosses à dents
« Dr Kiss », 1998.
Esther Brinkmann
Bague
Argent fin « Vases », 1994
Diamètre 2,8cm x hauteur 3,4 cm
Sonia Morel
Bracelet, 1999
Argent noirci
Diamètre 7,5 cm x hauteur 4,5 cm
Credit: Sylviane Pittet
Other collections
Despite its young age, the mudac has numerous collections inherited from Lausanne’s Musée des arts décoratifs. Since its opening in 2000 it has regularly acquired new works, seeking in this way to document creativeness in the fields of ceramics, jewellery, printing, textiles and glass.
Basing itself on the principle that one of the museum’s main missions is to provide evidence of contemporary creation for future generations, the mudac has laid down a specific acquisitions policy and tends to favour Swiss artists.
The team searches, obtains information, receives offers from artists and buys what it believes is representative of a certain style or the technical possibilities of the moment.
A computerised catalogue of the mudac’s collections can be consulted on the following website: http://musees.lausanne.ch
Design
Körner Union
Meuble, 2006
Wood and tin, 80 x 25 x 110 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg
Headed Round The Cape, 2010
Blown glass, inciso e battuto, 140 x 40 x 32 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Jaime Hayon
Science Vase 2, 2009
Blown glass, 55 x 35 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Matali Crasset
Bouteille à la croix, 2008
Blown glass, 32 x 7.5 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Fred Fischer
Egomorphisme 7, 2008
Blown glass, silvering, 30 x 26 x 18 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Matt Mullican
Education Tool, 2009
Glass, maple (box), 40.4 x 31 x 20.1 cm
Acquisition 2010
Contemporary glass art
Joana Meroz Ozorio de Almeida and Andrea Bandoni
The Object Without A Story, 2009
Blown glass, 35 x 35 cm
Acquisition 2010
