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From December 17, 2025, to January 15, 2026, come and see the 100 most beautiful posters of 2024 from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at ECAL. This exhibition, organized by 100 Beste Plakate, showcases the award-winning designs from the 2024 competition. Opening, Wednesday December 17 at 6 pm.
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A collective exhibition, conceived by artist Miriam Laura Leonardi, which offers an unstable space, without a central theme or linear path, inviting visitors to wander and reflect.
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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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Organized by the canton of Vaud, the exhibition features the results of the 2024, Vaud art & architecture artistic intervention competition.
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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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In a rapidly changing world, industrial design is facing new challenges. For the Milano Design Week, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents UPS – Under Pressure Solutions, an experimental research project aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the furniture industry through the use of shape memory materials.
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Ronan Bouroullec invited to exhibit part of his Dessins Quotidiens at elac.
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The prize-winning works will be exhibited at numerous book fairs and in a tour of exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, including a stop at the ECAL from December 7 to 19, 2023. Opening Wednesday December 6 at 6pm.
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After a tour of Japan, Form #1: FormSWISS is coming to Switzerland.
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From April 27 to May 26, ECAL presents Unpacking Tschichold’s Library at gallery l'elac. An exhibition in the form of a library presenting the books mentinoned in Jan Tschichold's seminal publication The New Typography (1928). Opening on Wednesday, April 26.
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From March 1 to 24, 2023, the Galerie l'elac presents ECAL×On: the interdisciplinary work of students from ECAL Masters Product Design, Photography and Type Design. Through a transversal approach of innovation, the exhibition invites to explore a futuristic universe of the running shoe. Opening and panel discussion on February 28 at 6pm.
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An increasing number of images are produced autonomously by machines for machines with a gradual exclusion of any human intervention. "Automated Photography" is a research project developed by the Master Photography at ECAL that addresses this situation by examining image production and distribution technologies, such as machine learning, drones CGI, augmented reality and photogrammetry.
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DREAM HOUSE by La Monte Young – Marian Zazeela – Jung Hee Choi.
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After the Milan Design Week and before the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE), the Gallery l'elac hosts the exhibition "Fantastic Smartphones" - a series of interactive installations developed by students in Bachelor Media & Interaction Design at ECAL, investigating in a critical and offbeat way our relationship with smartphones and the way they influence our daily behavior.
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From 22 April to 7 May 2021 at the Galerie l'elac, the exhibition "Glowstone" presents projects by students of the ECAL Master Fine Arts programme, initiated during a workshop organised extramuros at Espace Sébeillon by artist Neïl Beloufa.
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After the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, ECAL is hosting the exhibition "It's Not Complicated" by the renowned Zurich graphic design agency Norm. Based on their latest book "Dimension of Two", Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Krebs and Ludovic Varone present for their first museum exhibition an examination of the most fundamental elements and principles of graphic design and assure that "It's Not Complicated". It's up to you to judge on the spot!
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Awarded with the 2019 Swiss Design Grand Prix, journalist and stylist Connie Hüsser has always been fascinated by young talents and design. She loves the handmade, the colourful and the unexpected. She carefully brings these objects together in a presentation made with unrestrained fantasy. After the 2018 Interior Biennial in Kortrijk (BE) and Design Miami / Basel 2019, Connie Hüsser presents at the Gallery l'elac an evolving selection of projects created by international and contemporary designers.
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Du 22 novembre au 13 décembre 2019, la Galerie l’elac (dans l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne) présente le Fonds international d’objets imprimés de petite taille dans une version augmentée de l’exposition – laquelle comprend plus de 200 projets. Cette collection propose un regard sur le graphisme contemporain à travers l’intelligence des formes, des savoir-faire techniques et économiques d’objets imprimés, de format ou de statut modestes.
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We invite you to discover the most beautiful posters from 2018 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), selected and presented at the competition in 2019. An exhibition organized by 100 Beste Plakate e. V. in collaboration with ECAL.
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23e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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Curated by Andrea Caputo and Anniina Koivu, the "U-Joints" exhibition features the first chapter of an ongoing research initiated on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2018. A large selection of nails, screws, rivets, bolts and nuts is shown alongside products created by international designers and a new taxonomy of basic fasteners, graphically developed by Graphic Thought Facility.
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An exhibition organised by the third-year students from Bachelor Fine Arts as part of Denis Savary's "Construire un feu" course.
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A competition rewarding the most beautiful Swiss books of 2017, awarded in 2018 by the Federal Office of Culture.
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A competition rewarding the most beautiful posters of 2017 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), awarded in 2018. An exhibition organised by 100 Beste Plakate e. V. in collaboration with ECAL.
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22e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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After the DOC in Paris, the exhibition created by the American artist Will Benedict with the students of the ECAL Master Fine Arts of the ECAL stops at the Gallery elac.
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21e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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To celebrate the 10th year anniversary of its arrival in its new building in Renens, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an exhibition of the best projects created during this period by students from all fields of studies.
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Exhibition "Augmented Photography": 12/10/17 A Research Project by Master Photography.
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Following a workshop led by Camille Blin and Erwan Bouroullec, Master of Product Design students of the ECAL present projects around the Workbays created by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and edited by Vitra. Together with new functionalities, these prospective work environments are presented here in preview, then will take the direction of the Festival Parade Toulon from 29 June to 24 September 2017.
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Orchestrée par Samuel Gross et Stéphane Kropf, l’exposition «General Audition» a été imaginée comme une salle de concert, présentant une accumulation festive d’œuvres de personnalités venues pour un temps à l’ECAL au contact des étudiants.
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ECAL is pleased to invite you to its Christmas market with student and alumni projects and to share a hot wine.
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20e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher Les plus beaux livres suisses I più bei libri svizzeri The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2015 Un concours de l’Office fédéral de la culture.
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«Un paysage de la modernité», premier titre de la collection «Les Cahiers de l’Ouest» (Editions Infolio), propose une étude réalisée par Bruno Marchand, professeur à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), qui montre combien l’Ouest lausannois porte la marque du Mouvement moderne, notamment dans ses ensembles bâtis et son architecture du logement. Dans le cadre de cet ouvrage (réalisé graphiquement par l’Atelier Poisson), les étudiants de 2e année en Bachelor Photographie de l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, sous la direction de Matthieu Gafsou, ont offert leurs regards photographiques sur cette thématique.
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La Galerie l’elac accueille les résultats du concours international d'architecture Campus Santé, parmi les plus importants jamais lancés par l’Etat.
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A l’occasion d’un programme d’échanges entre l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne et le Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), quatre diplômés de l’ECAL ont pu se rendre à Hong Kong pour une résidence de cinq mois de septembre2 015 à janvier 2016. Du 29 avril au 27 mai 2016 à la Galerie l’elac, ils présentent une sélection des projets qu’ils ont réalisés durant ce séjour.
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On the occasion of the release of the “ECAL Graphic Design” book published by JRP|Ringier, ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne presents from 4th March to 8th April at the Gallery l’elac (opening on Thursday 3rd March 2016 from 6pm to 8pm) an exhibition of projects realised by students of the Bachelor Graphic Design and the Master Art Direction.
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ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne is pleased to invite you to its Christmas market with student projects and to share a hot wine.
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A l’occasion d’une semaine de workshop avec Hans-Walter Müller et Bernhard Leitner, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne vous invite à découvrir une installation réalisée par les étudiants de Bachelor Arts Visuels.
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19e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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Du 1 er au 29 mai 2015 à la Galerie l’elac à Renens, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne présente «Antoine Boudin – Arundo e Estrambord». Proposée dans le cadre des Designer’s Days au Palais de Tokyo à Paris en 2014, cette exposition du designer français, diplômé en 2008 du Bachelor Design Industriel de l’ECAL, aborde la thématique du mouvement avec la présence d’un bateau réalisé en cannes de Provence et dévoile les nouveaux matériaux, ainsi que les objets issus de cette recherche.
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"Heart of Glass" is a design research project HES-SO to take place within the Master in Product design of ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne.
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Du 14 novembre au 4 décembre 2014 (vernissage le jeudi 13 novembre à 18h), la Galerie l’elac présente une exposition réalisée par les étudiants du Master Arts Visuels de l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, dans le cadre de «Vertige des correspondances», projet de recherche sous la direction de Julien Fronsacq et soutenu par la HES-SO/Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale.
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18e Prix de Jeunes Talents vfg en photographie à la Galerie l’elac.
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Du 26 septembre au 11 octobre 2014 à la Galerie l’elac à Renens, l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne présente une exposition conçue et réalisée par Gavillet & Rust avec Vincent Devaud à partir de la collection du FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (France).
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Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher Les plus beaux livres suisses I più bei libri svizzeri The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2013 Un concours de l’Office fédéral de la culture.
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From 1st May to 5th June 2014 at the l’elac Gallery in Renens, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents “Pierre Charpin – la part du dessin”. The French designer exhibits some hundred drawings on various media (paper, tarpaulin...). The exhibition is complemented by a 160-page monograph published by JRP | Ringier and a special serigraphy made for the occasion.
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Du 7 mars au 4 avril 2014 à la Galerie l'elac, l'ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne est très heureuse de présenter «Ring Bell Twice», une exposition de John M Armleder. Le mardi 11 mars à 18h dans le Studio Cinéma de l’ECAL, le plasticien genevois fera également des performances inédites avec le musicien et artiste suisse Christian Marclay.
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From 13 December to 15 February 2014, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents the “ECAL Photography” exhibition in the Gallery l'elac at Renens. The exhibition offers a selection of works produced by 58 young talents during their Photography Bachelor curriculum at ECAL. All these images were chosen by exhibition curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, who has developed several internationally acclaimed projects around emerging photography, as well as by Milo Keller, head of the Photography programme at ECAL, and Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL director. The scenography of the exhibition is created especially by Swiss designer Adrien Rovero.