Discover the different events related to EXECAL that have been taking place since 2019 (in reverse chronological order).
[EXECAL Evening] Screening-Meeting RIVERBOOM 🎥
🗓 Tuesday 5 November 2024, 8:30 pm
📍 City Club Pully Cinema
20:00 – Welcome and ticket purchase at City Club Pully cinema
20:30 – Film showing
22:00 – Discussion with Claude Baechtold
22:30 – Aperitif
40 places are available on a first-come, first-served basis!
📩 Registration until Friday 1st November: execal@ecal.ch
RIVERBOOM, THE FILM
Duration: 95 minutes
Original version: French, English
Subtitles: French, English 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Claude Baechtold will be presenting his first feature-length documentary, which tells the humorous and self-deprecating story of the journey he made through Afghanistan in 2002 with journalist Serge Michel and photographer Paolo Woods, shortly after the September 11 attacks. Part road-trip movie between friends, part documentary tragi-comedy, part war report and part travelogue, Riverboom is an atypical surprising work with an absurd tone.
CLAUDE BAECHTOLD
Born in Lausanne in 1972, Claude Baechtold lives and works in Paris. After graduating in Graphic Design from ECAL in 1996, he developed his photographic work in Iran. In Afghanistan he founded the Riverboom collective with Serge Michel and Paolo Woods. Together they revisited the minor genres of photography and launched a collection of travel guides to unlikely destinations, including the North Pole. This innovative approach has enabled Claude to win the Federal Prize for Applied Arts in 2002 (now the Swiss Design Awards), followed by the Grand Prix Images Vevey in 2006. His ‘Tout ira bien’ (Everything will be fine) project, a kind of ‘photographic survival guide for orphans’, has been nominated for the Prix Elysée 2019. Last April 2024, the comic book ‘Béton: enquête en sables mouvants’ (an investigation on concrete), which he co-authored, was published by Presses de la Cité.
https://www.instagram.com/claudebaechtold/
Angelo Benedetto (Head of Bachelor Graphic Design at ECAL), Claude Baechtold, Yoo-Mi Steffen (EXECAL Secretary)
Credit 📷 : Marvin Merkel
[EXECAL in South Korea] 🇰🇷 ANNUAL PARTY IN SEOUL 🇰🇷
On July 20th, EXECAL alumni in Korea gathered together for the annual alumni party. 23 people (+ a baby!), including alumni and students, participated and enjoyed the beautiful night.
They talked, mingled, and enjoyed the dinner together while sharing ideas and thoughts around their creative scenes.
📩 Should you want to join this group, please contact Carson Seungkyun Hong: info@carsonhong.com
Thank you Carson Seungkyun for leading this group and sending these funny pics! 🫶🏻
★ 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!
Crédit : Raquel Jardim
Credits: Yoo-Mi Steffen
[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/
Mugi Yamamoto, Changwei Zhou, Jiang Xinyi (from left to right)
Credits: Mugi Yamamoto
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
그래픽디자인: Passage
서체: Marmo by Omnitype
Supported by KOTE artspace
Photos: EXECAL in South Korea
EXECAL Meeting #3
Thursday 4 May 2023, 6:30 pm
ECAL, Leenaards Auditorium
A new design for the Swiss passport
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.
Credit: RETINAA
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
Credit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel
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.
Photos: Yoo-Mi Steffen
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:
- 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
- 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.
Photos: Yoo-Mi Steffen
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.
Changwei Zhou (left) and Mugi Yamamoto (right)
Photos: sent by Mugi Yamamoto
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.
Daphna presents the Enabled by Design project
Fabien Roy
Fabien Roy
Pierre Benoit
Pierre Benoit
Joëlle Aeschlimann
Joëlle Aeschlimann
Raphaël Lutz (ECAL alumnus), one of the winners of the lottery
Images: ECAL/Santiago Martinez
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.
Photos: Mugi Yamamoto
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.
Participation of Jean-Philippe Bonzon, Maxence Loisson de Guinaumont, Weijie Wang, Mugi Yamamoto (ECAL alumni) in a friendly atmosphere.
From left to right: Felix Moesner (CEO swissnex China), Jean-Philippe Bonzon, [person waiting to be identified], Mugi Yamamoto, Wejie Wang, Manuel Ailinger (the only ZHDK alumnus invited to join the ECAL alumni), Maxence Loisson de Guinaumont.
Photos : swissnex China + Mugi Yamamoto
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/
Léa Pereyre & Hugo Hoppmann
Léa Pereyre
Léa Pereyre
Léa Pereyre
Hugo Hoppmann
Hugo Hoppmann
Hugo Hoppmann
Yoo-Mi Steffen (EXECAL Secretary), Léa Pereyre, Hugo Hoppmann, Catherine Othenin-Girard (EXECAL President)
Aperitif
Photos: ECAL/Jimmy Rachez + Julie Corday
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
Photos: La Becque
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
Photos: La Becque
