L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey
About
L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey is the permanent showcase for Images Vevey’s activities. L’Appartement is located in the main hall of the Vevey train station, on the 2nd floor. This atypical and ideally located historical venue was formerly used to house railway workers families: today it is transformed into an art space hosting around fifteen artist projects and exhibitions per year, free of charge. It functions as a link between two editions of the Biennale Images Vevey and helps to keep the “Vevey ville d’images” urban marketing label alive throughout the year.
Days and opening hours
L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey is currently closed for the installation of future exhibitions. It will reopen on 24 September 2025.
Main hall of Vevey SBB station, 2nd floor
Place de la Gare, 1800 Vevey
Free admission
On the right as you enter Vevey station, take the stairs or elevator to the 2nd floor exhibition area.
Phone : +41 76 815 76 15
WEDNESDAY
25 SEPTEMBER 2025
FROM 18:00
Images Vevey invites you to the 12th house-warming of L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey.
18:00 – Opening
18:30 – Presentation of the artists and their projects
The aperitif is offered by Léguriviera and the town of Vevey
In the presence of the artists
Children welcome!
Free entrance in the main hall
of Vevey train station
LENA AMUAT & ZOË MEYER
(CH)
NOVA
LEA SBLANDANO
(CH)
NEIJUAN
PRIX IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL 2024
Photo: Mathematisches Modell Nr. 170, 2023 © Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer
GUIDED TOUR
AT L’APPARTEMENT
October 9, November 6, and December 4, 2025
→ 6pm
→ Places limited
→ Registration espace@images.ch
Soon showing
For its 12th series of exhibitions, L’Appartement–Espace Images Vevey splits in two. One side hosts Lea Sblandano, winner of the 2024 IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL Award, who presents Neijuan, an installation exploring identities in flux, where reality slides into the virtual. The other side features Nova by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, a duo rephotographing scientific objects turned into poetic artefacts. On one side, digital experimentation, avatars, and connected emotions. On the other, the rigour of the laboratory, academic thought, and material memory. Two complementary approaches, confronting past and future, the tangible and the timeless, poetry and fantasy, each in their own way questioning how we see, know, and project ourselves into the world.
LES CHAMBRES
Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer
NOVA
With their installation Nova, Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer take over the three rooms of L’Appartement with images from their evolving photographic series. Since 2009, they have documented scientific, historical, or educational artefacts, removed from contextand reimagined. The first room shows customs-confiscated objects, displayed as curiosities stripped of their original meaning. The second invokes the artists’ studio, bringing together academic models, books, and prism photographs. The third presents vanished museum pieces, cut out and turned into shadows of the past. The hallway features striking images manipulated physically and digitally. Like the sudden flare of an invisible star, Nova forms a fictional, domestic museum where the image acts as a fragment of memory.
NOVA
2025
Suisse (1977/1975)
LE COULOIR
Lea Sblandano
NEIJUAN
Neijuan, a Chinese slang term meaning “involution”, describes a retreat into oneself, a symptom of a society growing ever faster and more competitive, where youth oscillates between adulthood and stagnation. Through a documentary and collaborative approach, Lea Sblandano follows people she met online, in forums, video games, or chat rooms. These virtual spaces become arenas of transformation where alternative identities emerge beyond physical norms. In Le Couloir, she introduces this shifting world through photographs that blend portraits and urban landscapes, alternating fragments of reality and staged scenes. Both intimate and confined, the space acts as a threshold between two realms, opening windows onto the outside while initiating immersion into the fascinating universe of Neijuan.
NEIJUAN
2024
Prix IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL 2024
Suisse (2000)
A co-production of Images Vevey and ECALA co-production of Images Vevey and ECAL
LE SALON
Lea Sblandano
NEIJUAN
Le Salon presents the book Neijuan, created by Lea Sblandano as part of her graduation at ECAL. This dummy, awarded the 2024 IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL Prize, offers a sensitive entry into her universe. It brings together key images of her research: portraits, avatars, urban landscapes, and interiors. Carefully staged, these photographs blur the boundary between real and virtual. Some figures appear human, others from video games or digital worlds, set against Asian megacities where light and architecture intensify strangeness. As a young woman, Lea also confronts troubling realities of sexualization and fetishisation in these spaces of fantasy. A silent, life-sized avatar appears in the room, an ambiguous figure between mental image and digital extension. Le Salon evokes the bedroom as both an intimate refuge and a stage for self-projection.
NEIJUAN
2024
Prix IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL 2024
Suisse (2000)
A co-production of Images Vevey and ECAL
LE CINÉMA
Lea Sblandano
NEIJUAN
In Le Cinéma, Lea Sblandano unfolds the third part of her immersive installation, conceived as a mental space charged with images. Nine screens on a metal-structure display continuous excerpts from Neijuan: videos, webcam views, avatars, and moments of intimacy intertwine into a dense, shifting visual landscape. Among them appears Kei, a real person and virtual flatmate in Japan, almost constantly connected to a chatroom since the pandemic. He is shown as Lea first encountered him: through a separate screen, suspended between wakefulness and permanent connection. The interface becomes a liberating link, while deepening the distance from the tangible world. Le Cinéma brings together the key themes of the artist’s practice: connected solitude, fragmented presence, and multiple identities. This live connection reminds us that Neijuan remains in perpetual motion, anchored in an always-online world.
NEIJUAN
2024
Prix IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL 2024
Suisse (2000)
A co-production of Images Vevey and ECAL
PLAN DES ESPACES
1. LES CHAMBRES
a monographic exhibition
2. LE COULOIR
an exhibition tailored for children
3. LE SALON
an artist’s book
4. LE CINEMA
an artist video
5. LA CUISINE
welcome desk, bookshop and boutique
6. LA TERRASSE
panoramic relaxation
7. LE BALCON
opening event
L’APPARTEMENT – Espace Images Vevey
A place of inspiration located on the Vaud Riviera
Covering an area of 220 square metres, L’Appartement features an entrance hall, a lift (with access for people with reduced mobility), three rooms (for solo exhibitions), a bathroom, a corridor (dedicated to exhibitions for children), a home cinema (screening room), a lounge (for the presentation of an artist’s book), a balcony (used for opening events), and a large, sunny terrace. Ideally located, it enjoys a privileged setting just steps away from Vevey train station.
BOOKSHOP
Images Vevey’s editorial strategy is built around collaborations with publishing houses specialising in photography, as well as directly with artists. Since 2015, Images Vevey has positioned itself as a supporter of innovative publishing projects, notably through the Images Vevey Book Award.
BOUTIQUE
In addition to a wide selection of art books, Images Vevey offers an exclusive line of bags and accessories made from the tarpaulins of the Biennale Images Vevey. Previously displayed on the façades of the city, these artworks have been transformed into wallets, tote bags, backpacks or beach bags. Each piece is unique and 100% Swiss made!