Introduction

Discover the different events related to EXECAL that have been taking place since 2019 (in reverse chronological order).

EXECAL Evening at Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne (19 June 2024)

★ SOIRÉE ★ EXECAL ★ EVENING ★

"Allegretto" de François Gremaud

🗓 Wednesday 19 June 2024

📍 Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne

19h00 - Reception at the Foyer of the Théâtre de Vidy, ticket collection

19h30 - "Allegretto" show at the Pavillon (room 17)

21h15 - Aperitif dinner at the Kantina (Foyer), with François Gremaud 🥂


Performing alone on stage, François Gremaud invites us to listen to the Allegretto from Beethoven’s Symphony no.7, which as a child he called “the most beautiful music in the world”. But first, in an attempt to explain why, and above all “how” this music literally became imprinted on him, he recalls the science-fiction film in which, at the age of seven, he heard it for the first time – a masterpiece in the eyes of François’ father, even though it was disparaged by the critics.

EN : https://vidy.ch/en/event/allegretto/


François Gremaud

After studying at ECAL in 1996 and taking painting classes with Jacques Bonnard, François Gremaud trained as a stage director at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels.

In 2005, he founded 2b company association, with which he presented his first creation, My Way, which met with great critical and public success. He collaborated twice with visual artist Denis Savary, in 2009 and 2011. Over the last ten years, 2b company has built up a repertoire of original creations, including shows and small-scale theatrical and other productions (films, publications, songs, etc.). Considered by critics to be one of the most innovative theatre companies in French-speaking Switzerland, and holder of two contracts of confidence with the City of Lausanne, it tours successfully in Switzerland and abroad. Between two theatrical projects, François Gremaud composes minimalist or festive songs, publishes books and regularly lectures at the Manufacture - Haute école des arts de la scène.

https://www.instagram.com/francoisgremaud/


Thank you to the thirty or so participants who helped make this very enjoyable evening possible!


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Crédit : Raquel Jardim


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Credits: Yoo-Mi Steffen

Swiss Alumni China 2024

[EXECAL in China] 🇨🇳 SWISS ALUMNI CHINA 2024 🇨🇳

Held last May 10 in Fotografiska Shanghai

https://shanghai.fotografiska.com/en


Welcome by Philippe Roesle, CEO, Consul at Swissnex in China.

https://swissnex.org/china/event/swiss-alumni-china-2024/


Should you like to join this EXECAL branch in Shanghai, please contact Mugi Yamamoto : mugi@circ.design

https://www.instagram.com/mugiyamamoto/


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Mugi Yamamoto, Changwei Zhou, Jiang Xinyi (from left to right)

Credits: Mugi Yamamoto

EXECAL in Seoul : exhibition 'Antenna' (14-20 October 2023)

ECAL alumni in South Korea were keen to mark the creation of the EXECAL branch in Seoul by organizing a multidisciplinary group exhibition at the Kote space from 14 to 20 October 2023.


Congratulations to everyone and many thanks to Carson Seungkyun Hong (MAS Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship graduate in 2020) who is coordinating and leading the group!

EXECAL members wishing to join this group, which currently has around 50 members, are invited to contact Carson directly: info@carsonhong.com


With works exhibited by:

구기정 Gijeong Goo 김지영 JiYeong Kim 김진희 Jinhee Kim 박예연 Yeyeon Park 손동훈 Donghoon Sohn 양희재 Heejae Yang 이기용 이기용 Kiyong Lee 이승목 Seungmok Lee 이윤재 Yoonjae Lee 이현욱 Hyunwook Lee 조민열 Minyeol Cho 칼슨 홍 Carson Seungkyun Hong


기획: Carson Seungkyun Hong

그래픽디자인: Passage

서체: Marmo by Omnitype

Supported by KOTE artspace


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Photos: EXECAL in South Korea

EXECAL Meeting #3 (4 May 2023)

EXECAL Meeting #3

Thursday 4 May 2023, 6:30 pm

ECAL, Leenaards Auditorium


A new design for the Swiss passport

by RETINAA Studio

with Guillaume Peitrequin (ECAL graduate in Bachelor Graphic Design 2009) and Carl Guilhon


18:30 - Presentation in English

19:30 - Lottery, Apéritif


Switzerland’s next-generation passport series was issued late October 2022 by the Federal Office of Police (fedpol). Since 1959, the distinctive red passport is considered as one of the most sophisticated and secure travel documents. Commissioned with the new design, the Geneva-based creative studio RETINAA wanted to honour the tradition of innovation in Swiss graphic arts. In close collaboration with a group of experts led by fedpol, and in cooperation with Thales and Orell Füssli, a bold design was developed that meets the high standards of Swiss security documents and aims to tell a story.


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Credit: RETINAA


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel


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Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel

ECAL + EXECAL Evening at Deli Social (25 avril 2023)

ECAL + EXECAL Evening at Deli Social

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 6:30 pm

Place du Tunnel 11

1005 Lausanne


Mise en Place Research Residency: an open forum for the future of food


18:30 - 19:15 Presentation of the program by Emily Groves

                        Presentation by current resident Marta Soldevilla

19:15 - 20:30 Apéro and mingling


As customs around communal dining change, and questions about seasonality, sustainability and provenance take centre stage, the Mise en Place program aims to foster new culinary cultures by supporting exciting projects in the domain of food and drink.


With opportunities for entrepreneurs, creatives and chefs alike, the Mise en Place Association facilitates collaboration, experimentation and debate through its two residency programs - the Research residency and the Cooks! Residency.


We invite those interested in a meeting at Deli Social, home of the Mise en Place residency. It will be an opportunity to learn more about the residency programs, to ask questions and to meet the organizers, Emily Groves and Rhys Williams and current resident Marta Soldevilla.


Presentations will be made in English but it will be possible to discuss and to ask questions in French.


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Photos: Yoo-Mi Steffen

EXECAL Evening at Espace Alfred Latour (1st March 2023)

EXECAL Evening at Espace Alfred Latour

Wednesday 1st March 2023, 6:30 pm

Place du Nord 2

1005 Lausanne


The Alfred Latour Foundation and Actes Sud publishers have just launched the third call for applications for the Alfred Latour Prize 2023-2024. Every two years, these prizes reward a book project that combines at least two of the disciplines through which Alfred Latour (1888-1964) expressed himself throughout his career: painting, engraving, drawing, textile design, graphic design and photography:

  1. Alfred Latour Prize: a grant of CHF 20,000 for the creation of a publication and contribution of CHF 60,000 towards the production costs of the publication
  2. Alfred Latour Awakening Prize: a grant of CHF 10,000 awarded to an artist under the age of 40 for an outstanding project

We invite those interested to a meeting at the Espace Alfred Latour. It will be an opportunity to learn more about these prizes, to ask questions and to discuss with some members of the Foundation, including its director Pierre Starobinski.


Good to know:

This contest is open to the international community until April 29, 2023

French is the language of communication but it is possible for a non-French speaking person to get help (translator system or French speaking person)

Duos are not accepted except if it is a collaboration for the graphic design of the book

Winners of the previous editions: Augustin Rebetez, Olivier Christinat, Sabine Hertig.


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Photos: Yoo-Mi Steffen

Swiss Alumni China 2022

Swiss Alumni China 2022 evening (25 November) in Shanghai at the invitation of swissnex China and the Science Consulate of Switzerland in China, with the attendance of Bernardino Regazzoni, Swiss Ambassador to China.


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Changwei Zhou (left) and Mugi Yamamoto (right)


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Photos: sent by Mugi Yamamoto

EXECAL Meeting #2 (22.03.2022) - Enabled by Design : Fabien Roy, Pierre Benoit, Joëlle Aeschlimann

After a first edition at the end of February 2020 which was quite successful, the second edition of the EXECAL Meeting took place Tuesday 22 March 2022 at 6.30 pm at the ECAL around the Enabled by Design (EBD) project.


Daphna Glaubert briefly presented the EBD project before handing over to our guests speakers:

  • Fabien Roy (MA-DP 2020)
  • Pierre Benoit (BA-DG 2012)
  • Joëlle Aeschlimann (BA-MID 2012)

The meeting ended around 8pm and was followed by tombola and an aperitif.


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Daphna presents the Enabled by Design project


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Fabien Roy


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Pierre Benoit


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Pierre Benoit


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Joëlle Aeschlimann


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Raphaël Lutz (ECAL alumnus), one of the winners of the lottery


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Images: ECAL/Santiago Martinez

Swiss Alumni China 2021

Swissnex in China officially representing all Swiss Public Universities in China, hosted the annual grand SWISS ALUMNI CHINA soirée on June 4th, 2021, on the largest Merrystar Cruise Ship along Shanghai’s iconic Bund waterfront. With a network of about 3,000 Alumni from Swiss Public Universities, 375 Alumni from 25 Swiss Public Universities confirmed for this alumni extravaganza, traveling from all over China to Shanghai.

This year’s gathering was graced by the presence of the Swiss Ambassador to China Bernardino Regazzoni and Consuls General in Chengdu and Shanghai.


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Swiss Alumni China 2020

Swiss Alumni China 2020 evening (16 October) onboard a cruise ship in Shanghai at the invitation of swissnex China and the Science Consulate of Switzerland in China, with the attendance of Bernardino Regazzoni, Swiss Ambassador to China.

https://swissnex.org/china/


Participation of Jean-Philippe Bonzon, Maxence Loisson de Guinaumont, Weijie Wang, Mugi Yamamoto (ECAL alumni) in a friendly atmosphere.


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EXECAL Meeting #1 (27.02.2020) - Léa Pereyre, Hugo Hoppmann

EXECAL MEETING #1

Thursday 27 February 2020

at ECAL (IKEA Auditorium)

Presentations by guests in English. Free entrance.

6 - 8 pm : presentations, lottery

from 8 pm : aperitif


Léa PEREYRE (ECAL graduate, Bachelor Industrial Design 2015)

currently drone costume designer at Verity Studios in Zurich.

https://www.instagram.com/dronecostumedesign/


Hugo HOPPMANN (ECAL graduate, Bachelor Graphic design, 2011)

graphic designer and art director between Berlin et NYC, for clients including Nike, 032c, Prada, District Vision.

https://www.instagram.com/hugohoppmann/


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Léa Pereyre & Hugo Hoppmann

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Léa Pereyre

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Hugo Hoppmann


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Hugo Hoppmann


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Yoo-Mi Steffen (EXECAL Secretary), Léa Pereyre, Hugo Hoppmann, Catherine Othenin-Girard (EXECAL President)


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Aperitif

Photos: ECAL/Jimmy Rachez + Julie Corday








EXECAL x La Becque Residency 2019 - Thomas Grogan

Piqûre-Lunaire by Thomas Grogan⁠⠀

15.11.2019 | 6.30pm - 10pm⁠

La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz)


Thomas presented his work produced during his residency at La Becque in September 2019.


The event included a presentation of his research, a tasting of Lavaux wines and a virtual reality art installation.⁠⠀

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"Piqûre-Lunaire" is an immersive video work that projects itself into an empirical landscape, drawn by a geological, cosmological, pastoral and literary history. It plays on the plurality of conscious elements, human and other, that contribute to this environmental architecture.⁠⠀


https://labecque.ch/en/archive/#thomas-grogan

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EXECAL x La Becque Residency 2019 - Iris Andreadis & Pauline Lemberger

Iris Andreadis and Pauline Lemberger organized a wonderful "Souper Solaire" in the garden on August 31, 2019.


They spent a month at La Becque exploring different solar cooking techniques, travelling throughout Suisse romande to meet local producers, fishermen, gardeners and food specialists.


https://labecque.ch/en/archive/#pauline-lemberger-et-iris-andreadis

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