EXHIBITION OF THE PRIX IMAGES VEVEY X ECAL: LEA SBLANDANO,24.09–21.12.2025,L Appartement – Espace Images Vevey From 24 September to 21 December 2025, as part of L Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, Lea Sblandano, winner of the Prix Images Vevey x ECAL 2024, presents Neijuan, her Bachelor Photography project. The Images Vevey × ECAL Prize was created in 2021 to strengthen the collaboration between the two institutions. Each year, it offers a graduate from ECAL s Bachelor or Master Photography programme a first solo exhibition opportunity. The awarded project is presented as a monographic exhibition by Images Vevey, either during its biennale or in its permanent space. Winner of the Images Vevey × ECAL Prize 2024, presents Neijuan, a project developed during her Bachelor in Photography at ECAL. “Neijuan,” a Mandarin slang word meaning “involution,” refers to a withdrawal into oneself, a symptom of an increasingly fast and competitive society. Through a documentary and collaborative approach, the artist follows a group of people she met online in forums, video games and chat platforms, where new identities emerge outside the norms of the physical world. The exhibition unfolds across three spaces: The Corridor, a threshold between the real and the virtual, combining portraits and urban landscapes. The Living Room, where the Neijuan book mock-up revisits key images of her research, oscillating between avatars, Asian megacities and reflections on the sexualisation of bodies. The Cinema, an immersive installation of nine screens showing videos, webcams and avatars, centred on Kei, a virtual roommate living in Japan. This work blurs the boundaries between real and virtual, questioning connected solitude, fragmented identities and the transformation of intimate spaces.DATES & SCHEDULE24.09–21.12.2025 2 pm–6 pm Wednesday to Sunday Free entryVENUEL Appartement – Espace Images Vevey Gare CFF de Vevey Hall principal (2e étage)OPENINGWednesday, September 24, 2025, 6 pmWEBSITEimages.chGUIDED TOUROctober 9, November 6, December 4, 2025
Gen Z. Shaping a new gaze,19.09.2025–01.02.2026,Photo Elysée Some ECAL graduates are featured in the exhibition Gen Z. Shaping a new gaze, presented at Photo Elysée. Twenty years after making its mark on emerging photography with the exhibition reGeneration, Photo Elysée returns with Gen Z. Shaping a new gaze, an ambitious group show spotlighting over sixty young artists from Generation Z. Among the featured talents, several ECAL graduates stand out for the strength of their visual and narrative approaches. Through a variety of perspectives, their works delve into representations of the body and gender, contemporary family dynamics, and the search for identity in a constantly shifting world. Blending intimate stories with critical viewpoints, Gen Z. Shaping a new gaze presents a vibrant and insightful panorama of a generation reshaping the codes of photography while reinventing the forms of visual expression.VENUEPhoto Elysée Place de la Gare 17 1003 LausanneDATES & SCHEDULEFrom 19 September 2025 to 1 February 2026 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10 am – 6 pm Thursday: 10 am – 8 pm Tuesday: closedWEBSITEelysee.chGRADUATES· · · · · · · · ·
Zufall??? Schicksal!!!,17.09–17.10.2025,Gallery l elac 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. A Bit of School, A Bit of Snow, And It Derails... claims that art is more than just another subject taught at school. The exhibition deliberately breaks with spatial balance, avoiding a central theme or linear path. With no clear beginning or end, it invites movement, wandering, and uncertain navigation. Unlike immersive formats, the layout creates an unstable space — one that encourages reflection. Through a selection of diverse works and approaches — from artists of different generations, ECAL graduates, Swiss and international — the exhibition offers landmarks within a timeless process. These artistic positions spark doubt, raise questions, and create disorientation. Our stance? Affirming negation. Can one say “I love art” or “I hate art” — especially as an artist? And within the very context of an art school? Coincidence??? Fate!!! We ll let you decide.DATES & SCHEDULEFrom 17 September to 17 October 2025 Wednesday to Friday, 1pm–5pm Free admissionVENUEL elac Gallery / ECAL Av. du Temple 5 CH - 1020 RenensDISCUSSION & OPENINGTuesday 16 September 2025 5pm – Talk IKEA Auditorium With the participation of: Giovanni Carmine, Director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen Barbara Casavecchia, Editor-in-Chief of Mousse Magazine, Milan Miriam Laura Leonardi, Artist and Professor at ECAL Moderated by Simon Würsten Marin, Independent Curator, Lausanne 6pm – Opening Gallery l elacARTISTSNora Schultz & Ei Arakawa · · · · K.Desbouis · Kerry Downey · Fanny Adriana Dunning · Urs Fischer · · · Nina Könnemann · Marc Kokopeli · · Joseph Kusendila · · Laura Owens · · Paola Pivi · Richard Sides · ·
Deemed Visionless,06–27.09.2025,Treize, Paris Deemed Visionless is a group exhibition by students from ECAL s Master Fine Arts, conceived as a free, off-programme experience in collaboration with the Parisian gallery Treize. Deemed Visionless continues a research and production process initiated by David Douard, Julien Laugier and Stéphanie Moisdon. As the second chapter of a collaboration between ECAL and the gallery Treize, the exhibition embraces the idea of a collective, off-programme experiment without a predetermined vision. It outlines human cartographies, the topography of a space shaped by relations, apparitions, silhouettes and the ghost of an architecture – an attempt to form a group without model or foundation.DATES & SCHEDULE6–27 September 2025 Thursday–Saturday, 2pm–7pm Free entryVENUETreize 24 rue Moret 75011 ParisWEBSITEtreize.siteOPENINGFriday 5 September 2025 6pm–10pmSTUDENTS· · · · · · · · · · ·
ECAL at Zürich Design Weeks 2025,04–14.09.2025,Zürich On the occasion of Zürich Design Weeks 2025, ECAL presents HOMEWORKS, a new collection born from its collaboration with micasa. ECAL x micasa HOMEWORKS is a collection created by 16 students from ECAL s Bachelor in Industrial Design in collaboration with micasa. Designed to reinvent everyday living, this series of distinctive pieces combines minimalism and ingenuity, bringing their own personality into the home. They create a space where design and comfort live together in perfect harmony. Our limited HOMEWORKS collection will be available exclusively at micasa starting 28 August 2025. Get a look during Zürich Design Weeks in Zürich! Be inspired by a unique installation featuring the HOMEWORKS collection.PARTNERmicasa.chVENUEMuseum für Gestaltung Zürich Ausstellungsstrasse 60 8005 ZurichDATES & SCHEDULEFrom September 4 to 14, 2025WEBSITE2025.designweeks.chAs part of Zurich Design Weeks, ECAL is hosting a lunch talk on Friday 5 September 2025, from 12:00 to 13:15. Daphna Glaubert, head of the CAS in Creative Leadership, will join a discussion alongside other guests from the fields of design and creative entrepreneurship. Together, they will share their experiences and insights on how to build a sustainable and inventive practice.
Video Clips 2025 Unofficial music video produced as part of the Sequence course supervised by Sami Benhadj. Second-year students from the Bachelor s programs in Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design each created a music video. Each project brings an existing piece of music to life, exploring visual storytelling, rhythm, and the creation of a unique graphic universe. OURSOursDREAMY IS THIS THE END?OP1 RevIn Transit
Dynamic Identity - 2025 First-year students designed visual identities for fictional museums. As part of the Dynamic Display course led by Angelo Benedetto, this project led them to create graphic universes that that express the character of each imaginary exhibition site. MALPS The MALPS is dedicated to the exploration of Switzerland s mountainous heritage. Its graphic identity is rooted in the creation of peaks on a modular grid, evoking the diverse mountain ranges of the Swiss alpine terrain, and is designed to adapt fluidly across multiple supports. By MAZ Embedded in the coordinates of each metropolis, the MAZ s graphic identity emerges from the superimposition of geographical areas, generating shapes that define exhibition spaces across the urban landscape. Each composition is assigned a distinct color palette, creating a dynamic system that adapts to different cities. By LIFIA Exploring the boundaries of immersive art, LIFIA s graphic identity is composed of generative pixel-like elements, forming dynamic compositions that adapt coherently across different installations. By GAM GAM (Galerie des Arts en Mouvements) captures movement in its many forms. By fracturing still images, it creates a graphic identity that evokes the original motion, transforming elements into dynamic visuals for posters and digital platforms. By
ECAL at Locarno Film Festival,06–16.08.2025,Locarno Three graduation films and numerous contributions from ECAL graduates and lecturers will be featured at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, taking place from 6 to 16 August 2025. Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Two diploma films by recently graduated students have been selected: L Avant-Poste 21 diploma film by , BA Cinema 2025 sound editing: Noirs Matins diploma film by , BA Cinema sound recording: sound editing: Yonne co-directed by and , BA Cinema graduates with the participation of several MA Cinema ECAL–HEAD graduates: , , , , and Concorso Internazionale Le Lac by Fabrice Aragno, BA Cinema graduate produced by , artistic assistant at the Cinema Department Dracula by , ECAL guest lecturer Panorama Suisse Qui Part À La Chasse diploma film by , BA Cinema graduate La Cache by , ECAL professor Piazza Grande The Deal series by , BA Cinema graduate, awarded at Série Mania 2025 Fuori Concorso Le Chantier by , BA Cinema graduate This strong selection once again highlights the reach of ECAL and its Cinema Department in major international festivals.DATES & SCHEDULE06-16.08.2025PROGRAMMEwww.locarnofestival.ch VENUELocarno
Type Design BA1 S1 2024/2025 Designing a logotype means defining a strong visual identity anchored in a specific context. First-year Graphic Design students developed a hand-drawn logotype based on a subject, theme, or environment of their own choosing. This creation was informed by prior research in typographic archives. Each student produced a reference booklet and a specimen system based on six or more typefaces, to ground their visual and conceptual exploration. Balancing typographic culture and contemporary expression, each project investigates what makes a visual identity truly distinctive.
Genius Loci - Spirit of the place Genius Loci, or the spirit of the place, refers to the unique identity or essence of a location. In architecture, this principle suggests that the specific characteristics of a place should be reflected and extended in a design. In the case of the second-year graphic design students, they have applied this principle to communication projects focused on promoting or extending the identity of a particular place through design. Their work likely explores how to visually capture and communicate the essence of a space, using graphic design elements that resonate with the architectural features or history of the place. ZONDA CRYPTO ARENA Broadsheet newspaper Par une Femme ouvre. elle tient dans ses Bras, une TouTe PeTIte chevre Édition Par DEAR VISITORS Posters & publication Par INTO THE WOOD Édition Par DNA OF FRAGMENTS Exposition, catalogue d exposition Par PORTEOUS Edition Par
Information Design During the information design course the students of the second year have been asked to design a cartographic poster based on a film in the road movie genre, in a direct or abstract representation.
Betaverse 2025 Using a mixed reality headset, the students used their surroundings as playground. Through creative gestures, each experiment proposes a way of interacting with the environment. Unoticed An escape game where the danger is invisible to the naked eye: only a mask gives a glimpse of the creature stalking silently. By , et Rage Against the Maga They talk, they shout, they affirm. The player has only one option: slap them. By , Mudbert Rise A medieval clicker where every gesture is a quest: tap, mine, harvest, buy, repeat. All to get rich, without ever leaving your headset. By , Tiramisu In a world where ingredients are lying about, a recipe is desperately trying to be followed. Mixing the right elements yields a dessert; the wrong ones, an inedible culinary conundrum. By , Ecal Defender Simulator Ecal has been vandalized! As a student, you will be in charge to defend ECAL from HEAD school s thugs. By ,
Show more / Show less Fictional mobile apps based on the "Show more / Show less" theme, offering new ways of consulting, communicating, creating, playing, discovering and learning. Students in their 2nd year of Bachelor Media & Interaction Design designed a dedicated experience and graphic interface via interactive prototypes on Figma. MARK MARK est une application compagnon pour les grimpeurs, conçue pour explorer des spots, suivre ses ascensions et créer des voies à partager avec la communauté. Visualisez les tracés sur la falaise, enregistrez vos sessions et enrichissez une cartographie collective de la grimpe. Par UNLOCK Unlock est un jeu mobile coopératif qui transforme la ville en terrain de jeu. Grâce à des quêtes en équipe et des balises RFID, les joueurs collaborent à travers des défis synchronisés. Avec des rôles uniques comme Time Master ou Navigation Master, chaque partie devient une exploration partagée et ludique. Par KIKI KIKI est une application ludique qui explore l effet Kiki-Bouba à travers le dessin, des jeux d association et des retours statistiques. Les utilisateurs créent, comparent et relient formes et mots pour révéler des schémas dans notre perception. Par SPECTRA SPECTRA est un lecteur SDR web personnalisable qui permet d explorer les ondes radio via une interface expressive et expérimentale. Il combine l écoute en temps réel avec des interactions visuelles ludiques, transformant l expérience en un acte créatif. Par
Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin The 2025 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin. Head of workshop: "This year, there s been a lot of talk about pebbles on tiles and eggs dangerously stuffed into jeans pockets. The pebbles, I confess, were me, Alessandro Comodin, a forty-something Italian director, who had thrown them at the windows of my new apprentice filmmakers. It was my mission, or so I interpreted it. Yes, I was the one who threw those pebbles, because I ve always enjoyed being disturbed by a friend who might have dropped by unexpectedly, because he or she didn t know what better to do than to come to my house. So, as so often with the gifts we give, it s the ones we d like to receive, I took the liberty of getting young people off their sofas and into the dark and magical world of documentaries. Or that they might simply open the windows without fear. The eggs, on the other hand, were the students projects. The image of the egg may be banal, but it s been a nutritional staple since long before the happy experience of Noah s Ark, and not to displease vegans or allergy sufferers, because eggs were never to be eaten or broken, just put in your pocket and kept there. A highly perilous exercise, but you can t be a filmmaker s apprentice without an acute awareness of the passage of time and the fragility of appearances. Let me conclude with a quote from Julio Cortazar. In 1980, he was invited to give a series of lectures to students at Berkeley. At one point he said that an idea is like a bird that sneaks in through the window; you never know when it s going to fly in, and it s not easy to catch it. I would add that you still need to have your windows open. We ve learned that this year, that it s really nice to open your windows a little bit every day, even at night, because a bird might come in or a friend might throw a pebble in, and you never know when that pebble might turn into an egg." Alessandro Comodin, director • , Letters to Louise, 17 • , About Love, 14 • , Next Stop Fontenay, 23 • , My little Nono, 13 • , Madame Favre s, 23 • , Basile dreams of a spider, 15 • , Lorena, 18 • , The panther, my Oasis, 23 , Liebe Lotti, 17 , The archangel, 13
ALICE FRANCHETTI WORKSHOP – RICHARD NEUTRA During this workshop, each student was tasked with designing a poster inspired by the architectural legacy of Richard Neutra. Drawing from his modernist philosophy and formal principles — clean lines, transparency, strict geometry, and integration with the landscape — each student visually reinterpreted Neutra s ideas within a 2D graphic format.