BIENNALE IMAGES VEVEY
10th EDITION
WE ARE FAMILY!
Vevey (Switzerland)
5–27 September 2026

From 5 to 27 September 2026, the Biennale Images Vevey celebrates its 10th edition under the theme  We are family! : an anniversary edition dedicated to reunion, kinship and celebration, featuring around fifty artists from some fifteen countries.

“A city turned art gallery.”
— The New York Times
Images Vevey is a family!
For its 10th edition, the Biennale Images Vevey explores the notion of family in a broad, living and contemporary sense. As announced at the presentation of the 2026 award-winning projects at the Rencontres d'Arles in July 2025, this anniversary edition places the emphasis on the importance of the bonds woven at the heart of Images Vevey and around it.
The chosen family, the artistic family, the professional family, the extended, blended and transgenerational family — and also the one we have yet to meet.
Images Vevey has always functioned as a family: that of the artists with whom projects are built over time and in different forms; that of the teams and staff who bring the Biennale to life; that of the partners, institutions, political representatives, media and publishers with whom exhibitions and books take shape; and of course that of the audience — loyal and curious — without whom none of it would mean anything.
Hailing from 55 countries, the artists of the Images Vevey family have accepted since 2008 the challenge of presenting their work in unusual ways: installations in public space, monumental formats, reinterpretations of images conceived to engage in dialogue with the city and connect with a wide audience. They include major figures of contemporary art as well as masters of film, emerging photographers and students in training.
This anniversary edition celebrates bonds, transmissions, frictions at times, legacies, affections, tensions and solidarities with an open, collective and resolutely contemporary energy. A Biennale conceived as a gathering place, accessible to all, where the image becomes a shared language.

The Swiss Visual Arts Biennial
10th edition
WE ARE FAMILY!

→ A celebration
Of the great Images Vevey family: since 2008, more than 500 artists from 55 countries, alongside visitors, partners, media and audience, have shaped the Biennale's history. Several artists return to Vevey for this 10th edition

→ A programme
An exploration of family in its many forms: biological, chosen, artistic, political, emotional and social

→ A statement
In a world marked by polarisation, a simple affirmation: family, whether biological or chosen, remains an essential space for solidarity and learning to live together

WE ARE FAMILY! is at once:
→ A celebration
Of the great Images Vevey family: between 2008 and 2026, more than 500 artists from 55 countries—alongside partners, media and audiences—have shaped the Biennale. Several artists will be invited to return for this 10th edition.
→ A programme
An exploration of family in its many forms: biological, chosen, artistic, political, emotional—addressing questions of lineage, motherhood, fatherhood, transmission, grief and birth, among others.
→ A statement
In a world marked by polarisation, a simple affirmation: family, whether biological or chosen, remains an essential space for solidarity and learning to live together.

2026: AN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, A SYMBOLIC YEAR
The 10th edition of the Biennale Images Vevey will also honour other celebrations:
→ 200 years of photography
To mark the bicentenary of photography, Images Vevey joins the programme of the French Ministry of Culture by celebrating British artist Richard Billingham with an exhibition specially produced for the thirtieth anniversary of his iconic series Ray’s a Laugh.
→ 15 years of Inside Out
After 590,374 portraits in 154 countries, JR has chosen the Biennale Images Vevey to mark fifteen years of his internationally renowned Inside Out project, one of whose first major milestones took place in Vevey in 2012.
→ 60 years of the Montreux Jazz Festival
A nod to the musical big brother, with an outdoor installation of portraits of international stars such as Grace Jones, Lionel Richie, Janelle Mon e and Sting, captured by Anoush Abrar.

BIENNALE IMAGES VEVEY
Dates: 5–27 September 2026
Opening: Saturday 5 September 2026
Nearly 50 projects presented
Site-specific installations
Indoor and outdoor
Entirely free of charge
Vevey, Switzerland

Ten editions, eighteen years of existence, 486 artists from 55 countries and 513 original photographic installations created specifically for the city of Vevey. Add to this 41 books published, 20 prize winners and 39 special mentions awarded through various prizes and support programmes. These figures speak to the scale of the work accomplished by Images Vevey in producing and promoting contemporary photography on an international stage. Since its founding in 2008, the Biennale Images Vevey has established itself as the most important visual arts biennial in Switzerland and as an international reference for contemporary photography. The 2026 edition marks the tenth instalment of the Biennale — an anniversary edition that underscores the continuity and singularity of an event that, every two years, transforms the city of Vevey into a vast terrain of visual experimentation.
With each edition, the Biennale brings together artists, audiences and media from around the world around a unique concept: bespoke photographic installations conceived in close dialogue with the spaces that host them. Indoors and outdoors, in public spaces, museums and specially activated sites, Vevey becomes an imagecity, shaped by monumental, immersive and site-specific projects