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ECAL is proud to announce the selection of three films by its recent graduates at the 2025 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF).
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Dedicated to young graduates and professionals alike, the “ECAL Talent Day” event aims to build bridges between training and working life by offering the opportunity to forge links.
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ECAL is taking part in the 2025 edition of 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen with the project Sound & Vision, created in collaboration with Swedish brand Offecct.
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On the occasion of Design Days 2025, ECAL presents HOMEWORKS, a new collection born from its collaboration with micasa.
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ECAL teams up with trail running brand NNormal for a unique photography project that blends visual exploration with pushing physical and creative boundaries. Inspired by the mountains, this collaboration invites students to challenge conventions through technical precision, immersion in nature and bold imagination.
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On the occasion of the Mapping Festival 2025, ECAL presents three Bachelor Media & Interaction Design diploma projects as well as the ECAL 360 LAB.
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ECAL is taking part in the 2025 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne with a selection of projects by its students, graduates and faculty members, along with several contributions to the event’s conference programme.
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ECAL invites you to its major editorial archive sale, accompanied by the launch of the new issue of its magazine Offline, on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, from 5 PM to 7 PM at ECAL.
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Pipistrelles, Serotines, and Bachelor Fine Arts students gather at Cinéma Bellevaux for an evening of performances, screenings, and sounds emerging from the invisible.
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On the occasion of Offprint London 2024 at Tate Modern, ECAL presents a selection of its latest publications
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ECAL welcomes Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra for a talk on her contemporary approach to portraiture.
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ECAL, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Suisse and Sister Distribution, welcomes filmmaker Albert Serra for a talk.
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During the spring semester workshop week, ECAL invites international artists and designers to present their work.
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HUM HUM MAGAZINE, created by ECAL students, is a nomadic exhibition-publication whose first issue unfolds at Treize.
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This event is open to future candidates for the new Master in Digital Experience Design who wish to obtain a preliminary opinion on their application.
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ECAL in collaboration with Karimoku New Standard and Presence Switzerland presents Designed in CH, Made in Japan at Milan Design Week 2025
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Selection of exhibitions with ECAL graduates at Milan Design Week 2025.
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ECAL presents Folklore Fusion at Milano Design Week 2025
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ECAL welcomes Cecilia Bengolea and Trajal Harrell for a talk and workshop exploring body, dance, and self-representation.
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As guest of honour at the 56th edition of the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, filmmaker Raoul Peck will be giving a masterclass on Tuesday 8 April, organised in partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse. The programme also includes five films by the ECAL's Cinema Department and alumni.
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On the occasion of Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025, ECAL teams up with Ceramaret to present an exclusive collection of jewelry in technical ceramics
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On March 26, 2025, the Master of Visual Arts proposes the symposium Worldbuilding in an era of extreme fragmentation
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Observing Urban Transformation: ECAL Students Capture the New Spaces of Western Lausanne
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ECAL welcomes photographer Tyler Mitchell for a talk in conversation with Hannah Pröbsting, Production Manager at Photo Elysée.
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An avant-garde designer and artist, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac anticipated what today constitutes the basis of new creation: art and fashion, detour and collaboration.
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On the occasion of the 8th Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne, ECAL is taking part in a meeting with Luc Dardenne, followed by a screening of his film L'Enfant, winner of the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
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Glass Reflections by Nouvel presents the creations of five Swiss designers who have combined their talent with the Mexican brand, renowned for its high-end glass craftsmanship.
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Swissnex in Japan, in collaboration with ECAL, presents Folklore Fusion, a visual communication project exploring Swiss and Japanese folklore through a cutting-edge CGI character project.
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ECAL is launching a MA in Digital Experience Design (DXD), which will start in autumn 2025.
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As part of the research project Parasonic : transmission de pratiques aurales fugitives, ECAL is offering 3 lectures.
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Following a workshop in Athens with artist Nikolas Ventourakis, students in ECAL's Bachelor of Photography programme are unveiling an exhibition that captures the contrasts of the city, between its ancient heritage and contemporary challenges.
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Event on registration, open to future ECAL candidates in Masters who wish to get a prior feedback on their portfolio by one tutor or assistant involved in the programme.
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A collaboration with the research project Emergence of Video Art in Europe led by François Bovier, the exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe focuses on the first steps of video art in Switzerland and its connections with European art movements of the 1970s.
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Organized by the canton of Vaud, the exhibition features the results of the 2024, Vaud art & architecture artistic intervention competition.
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For Art Genève 2025, Bachelor Fine Arts students have come up with ‘Dont’ Be Happy, Worry’, a creation that grew out of a workshop given by the American artist Kenneth Goldsmith.
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To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Félix Vallotton, the Musée Jenisch Vevey has invited ECAL Bachelor Fine Arts to pay tribute to this emblematic Swiss artist in a group exhibition.
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From January 7 to 24, 2025, discover the 100 most beautiful posters 2023 from Germany, Austria and Switzerland exhibited at ECAL. The exhibition organized by 100 beste Plakate presents the winning posters from the 2023 competition. Opening, Tuesday January 7 at 6 p.m.
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It's time! On December 18 from 6pm to 9pm, the traditional ECAL Christmas market is back.
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ECAL Cinema Department welcomes filmmaker Carolina Cavalli for a conference moderated by Paolo Moretti
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An immersive, magnetic visual environment, created by ECAL students, illuminates the facades of the mudac building and Photo Elysée.
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Design disciplines have entered the academic world in Switzerland relatively recently. Swiss design schools have only been required to perform research since the end of the 20th century to be qualified as universities of applied arts.
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ECAL Cinema Department welcomes Austrian filmmaker Patric Chiha for a lecture.
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From November 27th 2024 to March 16th 2025, as part of L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, Sara De Brito Faustino, winner of the Images Vevey x ECAL Prize 2023, will exhibit A Home with No Roof, her Bachelor Diploma project in Photography.
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Focusing on pioneering works produced in Europe (1960-1980), this two-day programme presents a selection of works made with synthesizers or intended for television, often first filmed on 16mm and subsequently transferred to video.
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ECAL opens its doors and invites you to discover its activities in the fields of Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography.
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From November 22 to December 15, Ferme des Tilleuls hosts "Contained Wild", an exhibition by Takumi Ise and Cédric Zellweger, winners of the City of Renens 2024 Encouragement Prize.
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As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Municipality of Renens presents the Innovation by Design Challenge awards evening on Wednesday November 13, 2024 at the IKEA Auditorium at ECAL in the presence of Léa Pereyre for a " Le design à l’ère numérique: nouvelles opportunités d’expression " conference.
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On Tuesday November 12, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse.
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On the occasion of the workshop weeks in the Bachelor programs, ECAL invites international artists and designers to present their work from November 11 to 13, 2024.
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For Paris Photo 2024, visit CO-EXISTENCE, an monumental immersive installation co-produced by Area of Work studio and ECAL Master Photography students.