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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Retrouvez-nous du 23 au 25 mai 2025 pour la troisième édition de l'Abordage!
Cette année, l'événement prend place dans une maison brutaliste à Lausanne envahie par la nature.🌿
Rdv le jeudi 22 mai de 17h30 à 22h pour le vernissage 🥂
Dress code: élégance florale🪻

Artistes :
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

Et les exposants :
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.
from 6.30 p.m. Reservations

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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À l’automne, Photo Elysée donne carte blanche à l’artiste visuelle suisse Maya Rochat. À travers son travail, elle joue avec les images, les superpose et les manipule pour réaliser des montages visuels colorés et saturés qu’elle présente sous forme d’installations singulières et texturées. Maya Rochat explore la photographie, la peinture, l'installation et la performance. Travaillant in situ, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur des institutions traditionnelles, son travail reflète un intérêt artistique pour le langage organique, exprimé par différents médiums, qu'il soit analogique ou numérique, figuratif ou abstrait, imprimé ou en mouvement.

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Grande Ouverture de l'Atelier Maya Rochat à Cully.

Après 6 mois de rénovations, l'Atelier Maya Rochat ouvre ses portes.
Samedi 5 octobre 2024, découverte de l’atelier et visites guidées, apéritif et musique live de Blackout.

Visites sur demande : info@mayarochat.ch

Photo Esplanade s’associe en 2024 au projet multidisciplinaire « Regarder le glacier s’en aller ». S’inscrivant dans un riche programme de manifestations en Suisse, l’exposition invite à considérer notre relation à l’environnement à travers le travail d’une artiste.
À cette occasion, Maya Rochat investit l’esplanade du château et livre un kaléidoscope floral créé à partir d’un fonds d’archives sauvé de la disparition. Dans cette série, elle intervient directement sur des diapositives collectées par un couple de passionnés. Savamment malmenées par les abrasions et les acides, les images scientifiques sont transmutées par l’artiste en un herbier poétique aux couleurs saturées. Si la dégradation physique des photographies évoque immanquablement celle de l’environnement, Maya Rochat insuffle néanmoins à ses créations une énergie intense, celle suscitée par son émerveillement pour la nature et ses mystères.

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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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Les grandes expositions immersives comme celles consacrées à Frida Khalo et à Vincent van Gogh touchent un public large et occupent une place conséquente dans le paysage culturel contemporain. Pourtant, les frontières de l’art dit « immersif » sont poreuses. En écho à l’exposition proposée au Musée d’art de Pully, des artistes, des intervenants et des intervenantes, nous offrent un éclairage sur cette pratique artistique majeure de la scène actuelle. Une occasion d’ouvrir la discussion et d’élargir ses horizons !

Intervenants : Camille Levêque-Claudet, conservateur au Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Maya Rochat, artiste, Camille Scherrer, artiste, et Victoria Mühlig, conservatrice au Musée d'art de Pully

Modération : Florence Grivel, journaliste RTS

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