Lars Willumeit
Brief Biography
Lars Willumeit is a curator, editor, author, and art educator based in Zürich and Montreux. Since 2018 he works as a curator at the Photo Elysée in Lausanne. With degrees in Social Anthropology (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Curatorial Studies (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), he previously worked as a photo-editor and as an independent curator and editor. For the last 15 years, he has been an avid collector of artists- and photobooks amassing a sizeable collection.
Current Projects
Josef Koudelka – IKONAR Archival Constellations, Photo Elysée, Lausanne (2022/2023)
60 Photographic Species of Spaces. Explorations in the Collections, Photo Elysée, Lausanne (2022/2023)
Related Realities, Backlight 2020, Tampere, Finland (2020)
More Than a Game! Sports in the Collections of the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (2019/2020)
Yann Mingard – Everything is up in the air, thus our vertigo, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2019)
Salvatore Vitale – How to Secure a Country, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (2019)
CO-OP, Unseen, Amsterdam (2017+2018)
Unfamiliar Familiarities — Outside Views on Switzerland, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur + Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2017/18)
Crisis? What Crisis?!, Main Program for Kraków Photomonth (2016)
Beyond Evidence: An Incomplete Narratology of Photographic Truths, Quad, Derby (2015)