Exhibitions
Preview
Saturday, 17.05. – Sunday, 12.10.2025
The Lure of the Image
Exhibition
Saturday, 25.10.2025 – Sunday, 15.02.2026
One Another – Kara Springer in Dialogue with the Collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 25.10.2025 – Sunday, 15.02.2026
Poulomi Basu – Phantasmagoria
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.02. – Sunday, 14.06.2026
Ester Vonplon – Wingbeat
Exhibition
Archive
Friday, 28.06. – Saturday, 28.09.2024
Exhibition in Frankfurt: A Show of Affection – Collection Constellation 2
Exhibition
Saturday, 10.02. – Monday, 20.05.2024
A Show of Affection – Collection Constellation 1
Exhibition
Saturday, 25.02. – Monday, 29.05.2023
VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs
Exhibition
Saturday, 25.02. – Monday, 29.05.2023
Adji Dieye – Aphasia
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.10.2022 – Sunday, 12.02.2023
Jean Painlevé – Feet in the Water
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.06. – Sunday, 16.10.2022
Chosen Family – Less alone together
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.02. – Sunday, 29.05.2022
Orlando – Based on a Novel by Virginia Woolf
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.02. – Sunday, 29.05.2022
Frida Orupabo – I have seen a million pictures of my face and still I have no idea
Exhibition
Saturday, 23.10.2021 – Sunday, 13.02.2022
Claudia Andujar – The Yanomami Struggle
Exhibition
Saturday, 05.06. – Sunday, 10.10.2021
How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play
Exhibition
Saturday, 23.01. – Monday, 24.05.2021
Eva & Franco Mattes – Dear Imaginary Audience,
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.09.2020 – Sunday, 10.01.2021
Street. Life. Photography – Seven Decades of Street Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.02. – Sunday, 30.08.2020
Women War Photographers
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.12.2019 – Sunday, 16.02.2020
Because the Night
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.09. – Sunday, 24.11.2019
Color Mania – The Material of Color in Photography and Film
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.06. – Sunday, 25.08.2019
Sophie Calle – Un Certain Regard
Exhibition
Saturday, 23.02. – Sunday, 26.05.2019
Anne Collier – Photographic
Exhibition
Saturday, 20.10.2018 – Sunday, 10.02.2019
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.06. – Sunday, 07.10.2018
Juergen Teller – Enjoy Your Life!
Exhibition
Saturday, 10.02. – Monday, 21.05.2018
Balthasar Burkhard
Exhibition
Saturday, 09.09.2017 – Sunday, 28.01.2018
The Hobbyist – Hobbies, Photography and the Hobby of Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 20.05. – Sunday, 27.08.2017
Danny Lyon – Message to the Future
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.02. – Sunday, 07.05.2017
Francesco Jodice – Panorama
Exhibition
Saturday, 17.09.2016 – Sunday, 29.01.2017
Jungjin Lee – Echo
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.05. – Sunday, 28.08.2016
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Photography in Japan 1960–1975
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.02. – Monday, 16.05.2016
Total Records – Vinyl & Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 24.10.2015 – Sunday, 14.02.2016
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs – Eurasia
Exhibition
Saturday, 24.10.2015 – Sunday, 14.02.2016
Every Photograph Is an Enigma
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.05. – Sunday, 11.10.2015
Beastly / Tierisch
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.03. – Sunday, 17.05.2015
Paul Strand – Photography and Film for the 20th Century
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.12.2014 – Sunday, 15.02.2015
Viviane Sassen – In and Out of Fashion
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.12.2014 – Sunday, 22.02.2015
Peter Piller – Document Control
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.12.2014 – Sunday, 22.02.2015
Peter Piller – Periphery Walk, Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.09. – Sunday, 23.11.2014
Manifesto! An Alternative History of Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.09. – Sunday, 30.11.2014
Blow-Up – Antonionis Film Classic and Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.06. – Sunday, 31.08.2014
Robert Adams – The Place We Live
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.03. – Sunday, 24.08.2014
Surfaces – New Photography from Switzerland
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.03. – Sunday, 25.05.2014
Deposit – Yann Mingard
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.11.2013 – Sunday, 16.02.2014
James Welling – Autograph
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.09. – Sunday, 17.11.2013
Cross Over – Photography of Science + Science of Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.06.2013 – Sunday, 16.02.2014
This Infinite World – Set 10 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.06. – Sunday, 25.08.2013
Lewis Hine – Photography for a Change
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.03. – Monday, 20.05.2013
Concrete – Photography and Architecture
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.12.2012 – Sunday, 10.02.2013
Yto Barrada – Riffs
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.09.2012 – Sunday, 10.02.2013
Young People – Set 9 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.09. – Sunday, 18.11.2012
Amar Kanwar – Evidence
Exhibition
Saturday, 09.06. – Sunday, 26.08.2012
Status – 24 Contemporary Documents
Exhibition
Saturday, 09.06. – Sunday, 19.08.2012
Rosângela Rennó – Strange Fruits
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.03. – Monday, 28.05.2012
Diane Arbus
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.11.2011 – Sunday, 12.02.2012
Bernd and Hilla Becher. Mines and Mills – Industrial Landscapes
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.11.2011 – Sunday, 12.02.2012
Cloud Studies – The Scientific View of the Sky
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.09.2011 – Sunday, 20.05.2012
On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.09. – Sunday, 13.11.2011
Shirana Shahbazi – Much like Zero
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.05. – Sunday, 14.08.2011
Alexander Rodchenko – Revolution in Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.05. – Sunday, 21.08.2011
Ai Weiwei – Interlacing
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.02. – Sunday, 15.05.2011
André Kertész – Retrospektive
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.11.2010 – Sunday, 13.02.2011
Mark Morrisroe
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.09.2010 – Sunday, 08.05.2011
Arbeit / Labour – Set 7 from the Collection and Archive of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.09. – Sunday, 14.11.2010
Larry Sultan / Mike Mandel – Evidence
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.09. – Sunday, 14.11.2010
Stefan Burger – Under the Circumstances
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.06. – Sunday, 22.08.2010
Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.02. – Sunday, 23.05.2010
Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.11.2009 – Sunday, 07.02.2010
Graciela Iturbide – The Inner Eye
Exhibition
Saturday, 24.10.2009 – Sunday, 07.02.2010
Karaoke – Photographic Quotes
Exhibition
Saturday, 05.09. – Sunday, 15.11.2009
Darkside II – Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.05. – Sunday, 23.08.2009
Walker Evans
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.02. – Sunday, 11.10.2009
Printed Matter – Set 6 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.02. – Sunday, 17.05.2009
Ad van Denderen. So Blue, So Blue – Edges of the Mediterranean
Exhibition
Saturday, 28.02. – Sunday, 17.05.2009
Joakim Eskildsen – The Roma Journeys
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.11.2008 – Sunday, 15.02.2009
Walter Pfeiffer – In Love With Beauty
Exhibition
Friday, 24.10.2008 – Sunday, 08.02.2009
Alec Soth – The Space Between Us
Exhibition
Saturday, 06.09. – Sunday, 16.11.2008
Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.06. – Sunday, 24.08.2008
Hans van der Meer – European Fields. The Landscape of Lower League Football
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.06. – Sunday, 24.08.2008
Sergey Bratkov – Glory Days
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.03. – Sunday, 25.05.2008
Eugène Atget – Paris c. 1900 (Retrospective)
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.03. – Sunday, 12.10.2008
Jedermann Collection – Set 5 from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.12.2007 – Sunday, 17.02.2008
Zoe Leonard – Photographs
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.10.2007 – Sunday, 10.02.2008
The Stamp of Fantasy – The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.09. – Sunday, 18.11.2007
Neorealismo – The New Image in Italy 1932–1960
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.06. – Sunday, 19.08.2007
Research and Invention – Investigations with Images in Contemporary Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.03. – Sunday, 20.05.2007
David Goldblatt – South African Photographs 1952–2006
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.03. – Sunday, 14.10.2007
Towards a New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.12.2006 – Sunday, 18.02.2007
Simultaneous – Two Collections of Austrian Photography from the Collections of the Federal Chancellery and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.09. – Sunday, 19.11.2006
Shomei Tomatsu – Skin of the Nation
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.06. – Sunday, 20.08.2006
Gregory Crewdson – Photographs 1985–2005
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.03. – Sunday, 21.05.2006
Real Fantasies – New Photography from Switzerland
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.03. – Sunday, 05.11.2006
Stories, Histories – Set 3 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.12.2005 – Sunday, 19.02.2006
Erich Salomon. With tail coat and lens through politics and society – Photographs 1928–1938
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.12.2005 – Sunday, 19.02.2006
R.S. – Photo Albums by Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille
Exhibition
Saturday, 22.10.2005 – Sunday, 12.02.2006
Trans Emilia – The Linea di Confine Collection: A Territorial Reconnaissance of the Emilia-Romagna
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.09. – Sunday, 20.11.2005
Robert Frank – Storylines
Exhibition
Friday, 03.06. – Sunday, 21.08.2005
Life and Death in Bénin – African Photographers from the Alex Van Gelder Collection
Exhibition
Friday, 03.06. – Sunday, 21.08.2005
Alex Morel – In the Still of the Afternoon
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.03. – Sunday, 22.05.2005
Rineke Dijkstra – Portraits
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.03. – Sunday, 09.10.2005
The Dream of Myself, the Dream of the World – Set 2 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.11.2004 – Sunday, 20.02.2005
The Last Picture Show – Artists using Photography 1960–1982
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.09. – Sunday, 14.11.2004
The Ecstasy of Things – From the Functional Object to the Fetish in 20th Century Photographs
Exhibition
Saturday, 26.06. – Sunday, 07.11.2004
The Eye and the Camera – A History of Photography from the Collections of the Albertina in Vienna
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.05. – Sunday, 22.08.2004
Arnold Odermatt – Collisions
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.05. – Sunday, 22.08.2004
John Waters – Change of Life
Exhibition
Saturday, 21.02. – Sunday, 16.05.2004
Soviet Photography from the 1920s and 30s
Exhibition
Saturday, 15.11.2003 – Sunday, 08.02.2004
Order & Chaos
Exhibition
Saturday, 15.11.2003 – Sunday, 13.06.2004
Cold Play – Set 1 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Exhibition
Saturday, 06.09. – Sunday, 02.11.2003
The Ochi Collection – Medical Photographs from Japan around 1900
Exhibition
Saturday, 06.09. – Sunday, 02.11.2003
Charles Sheeler – American Modernist
Exhibition
Saturday, 14.06. – Sunday, 24.08.2003
Boris Mikhailov. Private Pleasures, the Burdens of Boredom, Public Decay - A Retrospective
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.03. – Sunday, 01.06.2003
Roni Horn – "If on a Winter’s Night … Roni Horn …"
Exhibition
Saturday, 18.01. – Sunday, 16.03.2003
Yoshiko Seino – The Sign of Life
Exhibition
Saturday, 18.01. – Sunday, 16.03.2003
Anders Petersen – "Ich Dich lieben, Du mich auch?"
Exhibition
Friday, 08.11.2002 – Sunday, 05.01.2003
Joachim Brohm – Areal
Exhibition
Friday, 08.11.2002 – Sunday, 05.01.2003
Valérie Jouve – Résonances
Exhibition
Saturday, 31.08. – Sunday, 27.10.2002
Hans-Peter Feldmann – Art Exhibition
Exhibition
Saturday, 15.06. – Sunday, 18.08.2002
Chic Clicks – Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 06.04. – Sunday, 02.06.2002
Claudio Moser – Walk on
Exhibition
Saturday, 06.04. – Sunday, 02.06.2002
Phoebe Maas – Moments In-Between
Exhibition
Saturday, 19.01. – Sunday, 24.03.2002
August Sander – Citizens of the 20th Century
Exhibition
Friday, 09.11.2001 – Saturday, 01.06.2002
Hans Danuser – Frost
Exhibition
Friday, 09.11.2001 – Sunday, 06.01.2002
Dunja Evers – Constellations
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.09. – Sunday, 28.10.2001
Luigi Ghirri – Photographs 1969–1992
Exhibition
Saturday, 16.06. – Sunday, 19.08.2001
Trade – Commodities, Communication, and Consciousness in World Trade Today
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.04. – Sunday, 03.06.2001
The Camps – Photographs of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps (1933–1999)
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.01. – Sunday, 25.03.2001
Jitka Hanzlová – Rokytník / bewohner
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.01. – Sunday, 25.03.2001
Lisette Model – Photographs 1934–1960
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.11.2000 – Sunday, 14.01.2001
Remake Berlin
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.09. – Sunday, 29.10.2000
Hybrid
Exhibition
Saturday, 17.06. – Sunday, 20.08.2000
Karl Blossfeldt – Forms of Nature
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.04. – Sunday, 04.06.2000
Wendy Ewald – Collaborative Projects with Children 1969–1999
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.01. – Sunday, 26.03.2000
Takashi Homma – Tokyo Suburbia
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.01. – Sunday, 26.03.2000
Daido Moriyama – Stray Dog
Exhibition
Saturday, 20.11.1999 – Sunday, 16.01.2000
Adam Fuss – Less of a Test than Earth
Exhibition
Wednesday, 01.09. – Sunday, 07.11.1999
Fazal Sheikh. Afghanistan – The Victor Weeps
Exhibition
Wednesday, 01.09. – Sunday, 07.11.1999
Weegee – Life, Death and the Human Drama
Exhibition
Saturday, 05.06. – Sunday, 15.08.1999
Young – New Photography in Swiss Art
Exhibition
Saturday, 27.03. – Monday, 24.05.1999
Uncanny – Vanessa Beecroft, Anna Gaskell, Dana Hoey, Natacha Lesueur, Wendy McMurdo
Exhibition
Saturday, 16.01. – Sunday, 14.03.1999
Henry Bond – The Cult of the Street
Exhibition
Saturday, 16.01. – Sunday, 14.03.1999
W. Eugene Smith – The Great Reportage Photographer (1918–1978)
Exhibition
Saturday, 07.11.1998 – Sunday, 03.01.1999
Andreas Gursky – Photographs 1994–1998
Exhibition
Saturday, 29.08. – Sunday, 25.10.1998
Five and a Half Years of Fotomuseum Winterthur – Exhibition of the Collection and an Auction
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.06. – Sunday, 16.08.1998
In the Empire of the Phantoms – Photography of the Invisible
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.04. – Monday, 01.06.1998
John Gutmann – The Restless America of the Thirties
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.04. – Monday, 01.06.1998
Dorothea Lange – Retrospective
Exhibition
Saturday, 31.01. – Sunday, 22.03.1998
Against Denial and Dissembling – Carl Durheim's Police Photography of Homeless 1852/53
Exhibition
Saturday, 31.01. – Sunday, 22.03.1998
Nicolas Faure – From One Switzerland to Another
Exhibition
Saturday, 22.11.1997 – Sunday, 18.01.1998
Albert Renger-Patzsch – Retrospective on His 100th Birthday
Exhibition
Saturday, 22.11.1997 – Sunday, 18.01.1998
Moving Mountains – Girola´s Power Stations in the Alps
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.08. – Sunday, 09.11.1997
Nan Goldin – I`ll be your mirror
Exhibition
Saturday, 14.06. – Sunday, 17.08.1997
World Views – Reportage Photography and its Media
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.04. – Sunday, 01.06.1997
Photo Text Photo Text – Dialogue of Photography and Text in Contemporary Arts
Exhibition
Saturday, 18.01. – Monday, 31.03.1997
Roni Horn – You Are the Weather
Exhibition
Saturday, 18.01. – Monday, 31.03.1997
Axel Hütte – Theorea
Exhibition
Saturday, 09.11.1996 – Sunday, 05.01.1997
Photography after Photography – Digital Photography
Exhibition
Saturday, 31.08. – Sunday, 27.10.1996
The Linck Photographic Dynasty. A Portrait of Bourgeois Manners – Contract Photography as a Reflection of Winterthur and Zurich Society 1864–1949
Exhibition
Saturday, 08.06. – Sunday, 18.08.1996
Edward Weston
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.03. – Monday, 27.05.1996
Origins? – Gosbert Adler, Tina Barney, Richard Billingham, Anthony Hernandez, Fazal Sheikh, Carrie Mae Weems
Exhibition
Saturday, 20.01. – Sunday, 17.03.1996
The Magic of Images
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.11.1995 – Sunday, 07.01.1996
Bill Brandt – Photography 1928–1983
Exhibition
Saturday, 02.09. – Saturday, 28.10.1995
Female Photographers in the Weimar Republic – Photographing Meant Taking Part
Exhibition
Saturday, 17.06. – Sunday, 20.08.1995
Bertien van Manen – A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters
Exhibition
Saturday, 17.06. – Sunday, 20.08.1995
Jean Louis Garnell – Works 1985–95
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.04. – Monday, 05.06.1995
Seiichi Furuya – Mémoires 1995
Exhibition
Saturday, 01.04. – Monday, 05.06.1995
Hoffmann & Hitler – Portrait of a Dictator
Exhibition
Saturday, 21.01. – Sunday, 19.03.1995
Astrid Klein
Exhibition
Saturday, 19.11.1994 – Sunday, 08.01.1995
Stranger than Paradise – Contemporary Photography from Scandinavia
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.09. – Saturday, 29.10.1994
Beginning of a Collection
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.09. – Saturday, 29.10.1994
Peter Hujar
Exhibition
Saturday, 11.06. – Sunday, 21.08.1994
Helmut Newton
Exhibition
Saturday, 09.04. – Sunday, 05.06.1994
Industrial Image – The Eastern Swiss Economic Region from 1870 to Today
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.02. – Sunday, 27.03.1994
Gilles Peress – Farewell to Bosnia
Exhibition
Saturday, 22.01. – Sunday, 27.03.1994
Ed van der Elsken – Once Upon a Time
Exhibition
Saturday, 13.11.1993 – Sunday, 09.01.1994
From the French Part of Switzerland
Exhibition
Saturday, 04.09. – Saturday, 30.10.1993
Lewis Baltz – Rules Without Exception
Exhibition
Saturday, 12.06. – Sunday, 22.08.1993
Real Stories – Real Events in Twelve New Forms Described and Documented
Exhibition
Saturday, 03.04. – Sunday, 30.05.1993
William Eggleston
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.01. – Sunday, 21.03.1993
Illegal Camera – Forbidden Photography During the German Occupation of Holland 1940–45
Exhibition
Saturday, 30.01. – Sunday, 21.03.1993