A new XXL art exhibition project in the heart of the city

The City of Lausanne is preparing to launch a new project dedicated to temporary art on a well-known facade in the city center, that of the Manor store, visible from many vantage points. This project inaugurates a series of temporary artistic interventions in public spaces. Lausanne artist Maya Rochat will be responsible for the first pilot project.

In response to Gaëlle Mieli's postulate “Faisons le mur” (Let's climb the wall), the City of Lausanne is initiating a cultural enhancement project for a facade located in the heart of the city, particularly visible from the esplanade of the Cathedral. Designed to host ephemeral art projects, this project is based on the presentation of works printed on tarpaulins, adapted to the technical constraints of the building.
A pilot project, entrusted to artist Maya Rochat, will be inaugurated in May, on the occasion of the next exhibition at the Lausanne Historical Museum dedicated to the City's Art Collection. Subsequently, the projects presented will be the subject of a competition. The first call for projects for the artistic occupation of this façade will be launched at the opening of this pilot project. The winning work is expected to be unveiled by the end of 2026.

The work of Maya Rochat
Through a large-format photograph printed on canvas, Maya Rochat offers an immersion into a visual ecosystem inspired by trees photographed on the outskirts of Lausanne's Luna Park. Artificial lights mingle with vegetation, revealing a vibrant space traversed by invisible forces. Designed to interact with the architecture and urban rhythm, the work invites us to slow down and take a fresh look at our connection to living things. Visible from the street, it speaks to everyone and offers an artistic experience in the heart of the city.

ART IN MOTION Exhibition at the Art Tent from 29.1 to 1.2.2026
Curated by Diana Segantini – Segantini Unlimited
In collaboration with E.A.T. – Engadin Art Talks

Rooted in the original vision and mission of The I.C.E., the exhibition is inspired by its aesthetic DNA: design, beauty, speed, and the art of movement. The title “Art in Motion” embodies this dual identity – where mechanics and imagination, craftsmanship and creativity meet in a shared artistic dialogue.
The exhibition is deeply anchored in the Engadin, engaging the local art scene while radiating nationally and internationally. It aims to bring visibility and value to the region’s creative ecosystem and add a new dimension to the vibrant existing art scene. Art in Motion features a balanced selection of Swiss and international artists, creating a dialogue between renowned names and emerging voices.

A constellation of artists such as Laura Bott, Olaf Breuning, Mayo Bucher, John Chamberlain, Julian Charrière, Caroline Christie-Coxon, Amshu Chukki, Reto Crameri, Marco D’Anna, Gianluca Di Pasquale, Dokupil, Sylvie Fleury, Fernand Fonssagrives, Michael Friedel, Marianne Fürstin Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Zaha Hadid, Terry Haggerty, Brigitte Kowanz, Olaf Küng, Christian Lindow, Cesare Lucchini, Lisa Lurati, Paul Mc Carthy, Vladimir Miljevic, Lola Montes, Taró Nordberg, Fabian Oefner, Flavio Paolucci, Maya Rochat, Thomas Ruff, Rolf Sachs, Yves Scherer, David Shrigley, Francisco Sierra, Rebekka Steiger, Albert Steiner, Melanie Sterba, Peter Vann, Not Vital, Mafalda von Hessen and Ester Vonplon will represent a cross-section of styles and disciplines. The exhibitions will include paintings, sculptures, photography, installations and works on paper, creating a tour d’horizon of contemporary expressions related to movement, perception, and form.

The art exhibition will be complemented by a cultural programme.
Cultural Programme: 29th January – 1st February 2026

I wish you all a happy new year 2026 full of Extra Bright ColorsI
I am happy to share with you an extract of my last painting performance FOREST MIND a very special moment from India, where I performed with Blackout for the Serendipity Arts Festival. Enjoy the journey into sound and image.
Thank you to the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan, and Pro Helvetia New Delhi for supporting this project.

Visual artist Maya Rochat presents her work for the first time in India. FOREST MIND is an exploration of moving images. It reflects the relationship between nature and consciousness, expanding a sense of reality in the subconscious mind. It brings artificial matter to life while magnifying the organic movements of life. Between abstraction and figuration, the artist opens a much needed space for reflection.

Rochat celebrates the magic of life, crafting a vibrant visual language that nurtures and plays with our perception. She creates a moving, contemplative collage in which the mutating image mirrors our world in constant flux.

The large-scale installation is activated each night by video collages made in collaboration with Swiss Lebanese sound artist Blackout. Accompanied by live music, Rochat transforms the space into an immersive environment where walls become living surfaces and sound merges with image.

The performance takes place on 14 and 15 December from 7:00–8:00 PM.

In partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan, and Pro Helvetia New Delhi

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Maya Rochat presents a new immersive installation, continuing the research and production cycle Poetry of the Earth initiated in 2023, and previously exhibited at the MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Poetry of the Earth, 2023) and Photo Elysée (Water is coming, 2024).

At the heart of this new work is an innovative projection setup that accompanies a video piece driven by a sound composition from Blackout, immersing the viewer in a fully sensory and visual experience.

In this series, the artist explores a dialogue between photographs and videos of natural elements (water, light, wind), interwoven with abstract paintings created in the studio or during live painting performances. These images respond to one another, revealing the organic connections that bind them.

The exhibition will take place from November 21 to December 22, 2025, with an opening reception on November 20 at La Julienne, Maison des Arts et de la Culture.

We are delighted to invite you to the “Apéro Assemblage” on November 7, 2025, which will take place at 6 p.m. at Atelier Maya Rochat, Route de Grandvaux 22, in Cully!

On the program:
Welcome and tour of the workshop
Wine tasting from Domaine Antoine Bovard in the presence of winemaker Denis Bovard
Musical interlude by Blackout (Manu Tarabay)
The concert, tasting, and aperitifs will be provided free of charge.
A cash bar will also be available.

Please let us know if you plan to attend by emailing hello@mayarochat.ch and let us know if you will be bringing guests.
We look forward to sharing this “Assemblage” with you and seeing you there!

OPEN STUDIO
Sunday, September 21, from 4 to 6 p.m.

You are welcome to visit my studio in Cully, route de Grandvaux 22, on Sunday, September 21, from 4 to 6 p.m.!
This is an opportunity to discover my workspace and see pieces that are already installed or in progress.
See you on Sunday, September 21?

New MULTI GONG sound bath session at Maya Rochat's studio.
We will explore the powerful practice of Gong. Immersed in Maya's works, this timeless experience will offer us the opportunity to discover, or remember, that we are much more than our physical bodies, and that the magic of this world surrounds us as much as it inhabits us.

Location: Cully - Maya Rochat studio
19:00-20:30
Price: 50 CHF
REGISTRATION: Pure Fréquence (Pernelle Rochat) +41 76 303 64 18 / pernelle(at)breath-of-fire.ch

June 13 - July 12, 2025

Bittersweet Symphony

A group exhibition of artists* from the DuflonRacz gallery

On remembrance, nostalgia, abandonment and looking forward: With this final exhibition, Galerie DuflonRacz bids farewell to its magnificent premises at Gerechtigkeitsgasse 40.

Featuring: Esther Altorfer, Annette Barcelo, Christine Boillat, Simon Deppierraz, Gust Duchateau, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Claude Gigon, Stefan Guggisberg, Christian Gonzenbach, Nina Haab, Jerry Haenggli, Haus am Gern, Lucas Herzig, huber. huber, Elisabeth Llach, Maya Rochat, Max Roth, Nina Rieben, Lorenzo Salafia, Karoline Schreiber, Anouk Sebald, Francisco Sierra, U5, Simone Zaugg, Veronique Zussau.

Opening on Thursday June 12 from 5pm.
Finissage and summer/closing party on Saturday, July 12 from 4pm.

22.05. - 1.9.2025

Luna Park Trees (holographic) captures trees bathed in colored light at Lausanne's Luna Park. With this multi-dimensional image, Maya Rochat questions the fascination and tension between the natural and the artificial.

This backlit photograph is printed and composed of multiple transparent and polarizing films whose color and appearance change according to the position we take in front of them, creating a game of perception that questions what we think we see.

The work comes alive, inviting us to become physically involved, to turn around it to discover its magic and question our own perception.

This unique piece is part of the Cosmic language is light series. The intensity of the light and its movement are programmed by the Raphael Lutz studio, according to the needs of the exhibition space or private collectors.

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Join us from May 23 to 25, 2025, for the third edition of Abordage!
This year, the event will take place in a brutalist house in Lausanne that has been taken over by nature.🌿
See you on Thursday, May 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the opening reception.🥂
Dress code: floral elegance.🪻

Artists :
Béa Droz, Fichtre, Gilles Furtwängler & Gaël Bandelier, Matthieu Gafsou, Patricia Glave, Yann Gross, Vincent Kohler, Sébastien Mettraux, Iseult Perrault, Jérémy Rebord, Maya Rochat, Denis Roueche, Laura Thiong-Toye

Exhibitors :
Art Resonance Gallery, Renaud Defrancesco Studio, ESPACEMODERNE, Heinzer Reszler, J.Hopenstand, Fabienne Levy, Simon Studer Art, Table.centric & Cottini D.

Retrouvez toutes les informations sur www.abordage.art

Making of "GARDENS OF DREAMS"
Edition VFO 08.02.2025 - 03.05.2025
The exhibition “Gardens of Dreams” brings together six artistic positions that explore gardens as sites of imagination, transformation, and sensuality. Lorenza Longhi, Thi My Lien Nguyen, Maya Rochat, Albrecht Schnider, Annelies Štrba and Urban Zellweger examine the interplay of plants, flowers and organic forms as carriers of memory, symbolism and cultural narratives. Their works oscillate between printmaking, photography, painting and installation, creating layered visual spaces that shift between natural landscapes and artistic constructions.

Maya Rochat’s offset and direct flatbed prints on silver paper are based on manipulated slides of protected Swiss flower species. Through chemical processes and digital editing, she creates color-saturated, almost psychedelic compositions that blur the boundaries between natural and artistic aesthetics. The new editions are presented against a wallpaper installation from her “Living in a Painting” series, inviting an immersive reflection on visual experience. Additionally, the artist presents, for the first time, a large-format photographic work produced at the Zurich Print Institute.

The images in my "Living flowers" series, which will be exhibited at Davel 14, are the starting point for the posters for the Cully Jazz Festival 2025, created in collaboration with the Carnal Verona studio. They were presented at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris during my solo exhibition "Poetry of the Earth".

Since 2019, I've been developing this research based on a collection of slides. Originally, Jocelyne and Emilio Valobonsi (a couple of amateur mycologists from Bavaix) documented native species classified as "Protected Flowers of Switzerland". Attentive to the fragility of ecosystems, I was inspired to chemically transform these archive images and create a parallel between the disappearance of images and that of endangered species. Printed on banners, metallized paper or cut-outs, new motifs appear, giant or intimate, in the luminous colors of life.

Opening Saturday April 5, 5pm - 8pm
Finissage Saturday April 12, 5pm-8pm
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For the 2025 edition of the Cully Jazz Festival, Maya Rochat and Carnal/Verona Studio have collaborated on the design of the visual identity.

The enhancement of the posters through layering and use of fluoro colors, bring a fresh, dynamic energy to the posters.

Further more! They have enhanced a series of 100 unique posters with layers of paint, exploring with colors and textures. These posters constitute an exclusive, numbered limited edition. To be discovered in Cully this April at Davel14 !
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Sound gong workshop - Beauty and vibration✨ Thursday, February 27 | 7-9pm | Atelier de Maya Rochat, Cully I invite you to a unique sound immersion, in a space where art and sound meet to explore the transformative power of beauty. Through the deep vibrations of the gong, meditation and the visual power of Maya Rochat's works, we'll travel to other dimensions. This workshop is an invitation to let beauty and sound flow through us, to feel their impact right into our cells. Price: 50chf All proceeds go to support Maya's artistic work. Sign up to the newsletter to join the next soundbath!

Save the date! Upcoming group show at VFO

Maya Rochat’s lithography artworks "Garden of dreams" brings to life the intricate relationship between nature and artistic intervention. Drawing inspiration from a collection of botanical slides, Maya Rochat transforms scientific documentation into dreamlike, organic compositions. These six lithographs capture the fragile beauty of endangered species, exploring how light, color, and texture can elevate into something extraordinary.

with works by Lorenza Longhi, Thi My Lien Nguyen, Maya Rochat, Albrecht Schnider, Annelies Štrba, Urban Zellweger

Maya Rochat X Blackout at PHOTO ELYSEE
As part of their joint project entitled Dessins de l'eau (Water Drawings), artists Maya Rochat and Blackout bring sound and image into dialogue to deliver a narrative through the projection of light and sound waves. The story of a transfigured nature, where evocations of natural elements rally abstract matter, where the percussion of water and the appearance of forms call out to one another, where melodies and pigments respond to one another. Immersed in this dreamlike experience, the public is invited to explore the microscopic and the infinitely large, between outside and inside, between space and time.
Friday 22nd of November Live - free entry
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The Cercle de la Grande Société is pleased to invite you to the visual and musical performance by artist Maya Rochat, accompanied by sound artist Blackout.

This exceptionnal event at the Cercle de la Grande Société in Bern, organised in partnership with the art+château cultural association.

After a spellbinding live performance at the Tate Modern in 2018, and another at the Victoria Hall in Geneva in 2023, Maya Rochat has created a new visual and musical performance for the Great Society of Bern. The artist will change the perception of space through projections of luminous and coloured paint on the historic walls and ceiling of the Hôtel de la Musique. A new organic space in motion is gradually built up, reacting to the music and encompassing the spectators.
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Photo Elysée gave carte blanche to visual artist Maya Rochat to create an immersive installation on the theme of water.

Water is coming is a holistic, dreamlike experience that exists on the fringes of our reality. Inspired by the work of Masaru Emoto, who argued that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water, it features montages of footage filmed on and under water that are projected side by side and superimposed onto printed images.

Maya Rochat’s images are set against a soundscape by the artist blackout. This multifaceted space, where the living world is transformed and sublimated, calls on us to step back and reflect on our experience of the world around us.

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This fall, Photo Elysée is giving carte blanche to Swiss visual artist Maya Rochat. Through her work, she plays with images, superimposing and manipulating them to create colorful, saturated visual montages that she presents in the form of unique, textured installations. Maya Rochat explores photography, painting, installation, and performance. Working in situ, both inside and outside traditional institutions, her work reflects an artistic interest in organic language, expressed through different mediums, whether analog or digital, figurative or abstract, printed or in motion.

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Grand Opening of the Maya Rochat Workshop in Cully.

After six months of renovations, the Maya Rochat Workshop is opening its doors.
Saturday, October 5, 2024: discover the workshop with guided tours, aperitifs, and live music by Blackout.

Tours available upon request: info@mayarochat.ch

In 2024, Photo Esplanade is partnering with the multidisciplinary project “Watching the Glacier Disappear.” Part of a rich program of events in Switzerland, the exhibition invites visitors to consider our relationship with the environment through the work of an artist.
For the occasion, Maya Rochat will take over the castle esplanade and present a floral kaleidoscope created from an archive collection saved from destruction. In this series, she works directly on slides collected by an enthusiastic couple. Skilfully damaged by abrasions and acids, the scientific images are transformed by the artist into a poetic herbarium of saturated colors. While the physical deterioration of the photographs inevitably evokes that of the environment, Maya Rochat nevertheless infuses her creations with an intense energy, inspired by her wonder at nature and its mysteries.

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Maya Rochat is one of the finalists in the photography category of the Swiss Design Awards 2024!
3 magical collages are made up of several layers of inkjet print on transparent film and polarizing film (light modulator with dimmer).
The polarizing film changes the color of the image according to the movement of the body, creating an effect as playful as it is spectacular.
The artist book "poetry of the earth" accompanies the installation.

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Large immersive exhibitions such as those dedicated to Frida Khalo and Vincent van Gogh attract a wide audience and occupy a significant place in the contemporary cultural landscape. However, the boundaries of so-called “immersive” art are porous. Echoing the exhibition at the Pully Art Museum, artists and speakers offer us insight into this major artistic practice on the current scene. An opportunity to open up discussion and broaden your horizons!

Speakers: Camille Levêque-Claudet, curator at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Maya Rochat, artist, Camille Scherrer, artist, and Victoria Mühlig, curator at the Pully Art Museum

Moderator: Florence Grivel, RTS journalist

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