Contact

Cyril Porchet is a photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

+41 (0)78 656 97 67
cyril.porchet@gmail.com

Exhibitions

2024

• "Civilisation", Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taïwan

2023

• "Civilisation", Saatchi Gallery, London. UK

2022

• "État des Lieux", Maison Gaudard, Lausanne, Switzerland
• "Civilisation", Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmin, Forli, Italy
• "Civilisation", Musei San Domenico, Forli, Italy
  

2021

• "Civilisation", Musée des Civilisation de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille, France
• "Alt+1000", La brévine, Switzerland
• "TOT", Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now",  Delegates Entrance, UN, New York, United States
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo, Japan
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Fire Station Art Gallery, Doha, Qatar

2020

• "Civilisation",Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
• "Civilisation", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland 
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Apteka Sztuki Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Senado de la República, Avenida de Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico

2019

• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
• "Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now", ArtHall D12, Desyatynna Str. 12, Kiev, Ukraine
• "Heart@geneva", Cathédrale St Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland
• "Civilisation", National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
• "Civilisation", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
• "Don’t trust me, I’m homeless", ED.Varie, NYC, USA

2018

• "Living in a painting" Cité des art, Paris, France
• "Day ONE", The Eclectic Studio, Paris, France
• "Civilisation", National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
• "Images", Vevey, Switzerland
• "DOJO", Le Coommun, Geneva, Switzerland
• "La Nuit des Images", Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
• "Téléphone Arabe" Jubilé de la Collection d'art de la ville de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Solo show, BAART, Geneva, Switzerland 

2017

• Le Printemps De Septembre, Toulouse, France
• "Ciel",La Villa Dutoit, Genève, Switzerland
•  "VASY-ALER", Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• "Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow", Moscow, Russia 
• "Apogée et périgée", Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland
• "Circulation(s)@Shanghai", IG art gallery
• "Behind The Hill", Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• "Anniversaire de l'art", Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2016

• "Birthday Galerie C", Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• “Just What Is It”, Chamber Gallery, NYC, USA
• Heart of Glass ECAL, NYC X DESIGN, NYC, USA 
• CH-NY, Fresh Window gallery, NYC, USA
• Mon art à moi, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland  
• La Grande Place, CACY, Yverdon, Switzerland 
• CREDO, Galerie Sator, Paris, France 
• Fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris 

2015

• Le Ciel devant soi, MIR, Geneva, Switzerland
• Beijing Internatianal Art Biennale, Beijing, China
• Swiss Federal Award 2015, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Objectif Gare, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Near at Free, Free studio, Geneva
• Ecal Photogaphy, Display Gallery, London,
• Heart of Glass, Galerie L'elac, Lausanne, Switzerland, 
• Festival-Circulation(s), Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France 
• PIXELS OF PARADISE, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France 
• FLUX, Galery FRANCIS MAERE, Gend, Belgium, 
• Solo Exhibition at Galerie Christopher Gerber, Lausanne, Switzerland 
• "Carte Blanche" A Matthieux Gafsou, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland 

2014

• ECAL Photography, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italia
• International Biennial Of Photography And Visual Arts, Liège, Belgium
• Centre De La Photographie - Genève, Switzerland
• Ornament,Masse & Macht, Coalmine Fotogalerie - Winterthur, Switzerland

2013

• galerie ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
• SELECTION AUSWAHL PhotoforumPasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland.
• Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France
• La Cité du Temps, Geneva, Switzerland
• Festival Journée photographiques de Bienne, Switzerland
• Festival Alt+1000, Rossinière, Switzerland
• Solo Exhibition at Galerie Christopher Gerber, Lausanne, Switzerland

2012

• Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Swiss Federal Award 2012, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
• Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
• NEAR BY NIGHT 4, Zinéma, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Too cool for school, Spazio Orso, Milano, Italy

2011

• SELECTION AUSWAHL PhotoforumPasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
• Photo Festival Planche(s) Contact, Deauville, France
• Gallery ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

2010

• Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
• Gallery 22 Bis, Vevey, Switzerland
• Gallery ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
• BCV, Switzerland

Publications

Collections

Larry Gagosian Private collection
Maison Européenne de la photographie
BCV
Piget Galland
Swatch
Deauville
Bienne
Lausanne
Raymond Weil
Photaumnales
Various private collections

Awards/Selections

Alt. +1000 Festival Swiss Federal Award 2015 Swiss Federal Award 2012 Swiss Federal Award 2010 Wallpaper*magazine Graduate Directory Raymond Weil Award Photo Festival "Planche(s) Contact" Selection: Auswahl 2013 Selection: Auswahl 2011

Studies

Master in Art Direction, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, (ECAL). 2009–2011 (mention excellence)

Bachelor degree in visual communication, photography department, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL). 2005–2009