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The team and the Board of Fondation Toms Pauli wish you an excellent 2026 and invite you to discover the works from its two collections, presented in three exhibitions.
Fondation Toms Pauli is delighted to present three works rarely shown to the public, on loan from its collection for the exhibition Rencontrologie, at mudac, Lausanne, 6 November 2026 to 11 April 2027, within the theme, Magic and Design.
What if design could open the doors to other worlds? Through immersive installations, ritual objects and speculative works, the exhibition invites visitors to explore new ways of relating to living entities, non-humans and invisible worlds. It is an invitation to see the world differently, at the intersection of art, design and ecology, and to imagine new ways of engaging in dialogue with everything around us. For more information, click here.
The Fondation Toms Pauli is preparing a major event dedicated to one of the key figures of the twentieth-century tapestry revival: Jean Lurçat (1892-1966). Scheduled for 2028 at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, this new exhibition will shed light on an aspect of his career still largely unexplored: the special links that Lurçat maintained with Switzerland.
Through a large body of work mainly from Swiss collections, the public will be able to discover Lurçat's decisive commitment to the recognition and promotion of tapestry art, and his major role in the creation and influence of the Lausanne Biennials, which contributed to shape the history of this art, as well as his rich collaborations with publishers and gallery owners, including Alice and Pierre Pauli and Pierre Cailler.
This exhibition will invite the public to dive into the world of an artist whose legacy continues to influence our view of contemporary textile creation. See you in 2028 to rediscover Jean Lurçat in a new light!
What is beauty? To explore this question, the Clermont-Ferrand Textile Biennial is inaugurating its flagship exhibition, Beauté(s), in a few days. This exhibition, both critical and sensitive, combines classical masterpieces, ethnographic objects and contemporary art. The Foundation associates itself with enthusiasm with this unprecedented event by lending one of the jewels of its collection: the emblematic Red Abakan III by the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz.