FROM 3 TO 25 SEPTEMBER, THE IAGES VEVEY BIENNAL WILL BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER!

Programm 2022
It takes all sorts to make a world! By bringing together over 45 artists from some twenty countries, the Images Vevey biennial aims to create links. Despite the current uncertain international context, this is a time for reunion and togetherness.

Our connection with others and with our environment, the importance and fragility of social and family ties, the joys and sorrows when the collective and the individual coexist: These are just some of the topics the 2022 Festival is looking forward to exploring via:

‘Together. La vie ensemble.’

+ 45 ARTISTS
+ 22 COUNTRIES
4 WEEKENDS
3 WEEKS
1 THEME

TOGETHER. LA VIE ENSEBLE
...presents 45 artists from 20 countries, including Japan, Peru, Italy, Guatemala, France, Iran, USA, Colombia, Ukraine, Netherlands, South Africa, Austria, Russia, Spain, Belgium and, of course, Switzerland.

TOGETHER. LA VIE ENSEBLE
...presents life and death, love and family, war and leisure, religion and science, home and travel, freedom and imprisonment, conviviality and separation, the economy and politics, and many more things too.

TOGETHER. LA VIE ENSEBLE
...presents a soap opera, minigolf, Nelson Mandela, Milan Cathedral, peel- off creamer lids, local wining and dining, demagogy,tombstones,theGreatWallof China, performances, detainees, crickets, a red carpet, Vincent van Gogh, snow cannons, stray dogs, tears and laughter, artificial intelligence, football, and so much more.


TOGETHER. LA VIE ENSEBLE
The featured artistic projects invite the visitors to experience images in a different way through monumental installations and scenography that is often unusual...The biennale has the particularity of custom designing its exhibitions in order to strike the perfect balance between the works, the scenography and the place in which they are exhibited.

IAGES VEVEY UNVEILS ITS 2022 MASCOT
For this 2022 edition, Images Vevey has chosen a visual identity based on the typography of the word Noi (We/Us in Italian) created by Feixen, a Swiss design studio.

The in the word resembles a doubly observant and unifying character, inviting us to stroll around the town. A halo of light in the middle evokes both a camera flash and the Vaud Riviera sun, while the colour gradient alludes to sunshine on a beautiful day outdoors on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Images Vevey unveils the full programme for its 2022 Biennial!

Images Vevey, the most notable visual arts biennial in Switzerland is back, with a new constellation of stars and, as always, its unique concept of custom-made photography exhibitions and installations for one and all to discover free of charge, exclusively throughout the town of Vevey from 3 to 25 September 2022. The Biennial presents the opportunity for Images Vevey to showcase its very own publishing house for photography books: Editions Image Vevey.

Discover the full programme online! For over three weeks, the town of Vevey will be displaying 50 custom-made photography installations for visitors to explore free of charge. The biennial event creates links by bringing together the artwork of over fifty artists from 25 countries including Japan, Guatemala, Spain, Italy, India, and South Africa, all focusing on the theme Together. La vie ensemble.

THE CONCEPT OF THE EXHIBITIONS
Images Vevey is renowned for the creation of unique scenography and the impressive dimensions of its installations in various parts of the town of Vevey, thus inviting its audience to experience images differently. To arouse festivalgoers’ curiosity, striking new indoor venues nestled in Vevey’s town centre will welcome seasoned Festival regulars and newcomers alike!

L’APPARTEMENT – ESPACE IMAGES VEVEY: A NEW GATEWAY TO THE FESTIVAL
Images Vevey invites visitors to explore its new permanent art space in the heart of Vevey’s train station, formerly serving as railway workers’ housing. L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey is showcasing projects by four internationally renowned artists: Bertien van Manen, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing and Carmen Winant.
As is the custom every two years, there is great suspense as to which colossal photograph Images Vevey has selected to entirely cover the frontage of a building, opposite the train station. This edition, let's be teleported to the legendary Milan Cathedral, a photograph taken by Thomas Struth in 1998, printed on a 500 m2 canvas. This famous German photographer invites the festivalgoers to embark on a novel itinerary to discover four of his masterpieces displayed on distinctive buildings around the town of Vevey.

THE FESTIVAL HOTSPOT
The Festival bar is another key venue of the event. This year it will be proposing some sporty amusement with the installation of a minigolf realised by the Belgian artist Vincent Beeckman. Right next door, in the Salle del Castillo, the epicentre of the Festival, a photographic and video installation by the artist Diana Markosian will plunge festival-goers into a remake of the cult soap opera Santa Barbara.

IMAGES VEVEY NOW PUBLISHES ITS OWN BOOKS
Since 2020, Images Vevey has been pursuing its role as a publisher of photographic books and, during the second weekend of the Festival, on Saturday 10 September 2022, it will present its publishing house. The latest Editions Images Vevey publication is Lux in Tenebris by Vincent Jendly, a Swiss artist whose work was exhibited at the 2020 Biennial.

Publication available on our online shop

Presenting the artists and the myriad of topics addressed – love, family, urbanism, technology, science, tourism, politics, life, death, religion, culture, food, sport, hobbies, and much more – our press kit details the entire programme.