ArtLab

Attached to the EPFL College of Humanities (CdH), Artlab presents temporary and long-term exhibitions that bring the world of science and the Humanities closer together. It also houses a Montreux Jazz Café in which it is possible to consult the festival’s audio-visual archives. Opened in the fall of 2016, the building was designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

The 3 pavilions of the building

Pavilion A (DataSquare)

Located in the northern part of the ArtLab building, open to the Esplanade, the Datasquare presents a long-term exhibition on the theme of big data.

Pavilion B

This space, the most spacious in the building, hosts temporary exhibitions that showcase, through technology, a scientific, artistic, historical and cultural heritage.

Montreux Jazz Café and Festival Archives

Located in the southern part of the building, on the lake side, this space is dedicated to the enhancement of the Montreux Jazz Festival archives, which are registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

Current exhibitions

To be seen in ArtLab EPFL

News

A conversation with EPFL's artist-in-residence, Nora Al-Badri

Published:19.11.19 — Nora Al-Badri talks about her unique work at the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and cultural heritage. She is the first artist in a new residency program administered by the College of Humanities (CDH), and operationalized by ArtLab, which will host an exhibition of Al-Badri’s work next year.

Infinity Room 2: EPFL's 50 years in eight installations

Published:14.11.19 — Infinity Room 2 is the second chapter of a two-part exhibition at ArtLab in honor of EPFL’s 50th anniversary this year. Eight installations, ranging from the photographic to the augmented, provide an interactive experience of the school’s academic, cultural, and architectural evolution, and bring a new dimension to institutional archives.

EPFL and UNIL launch joint digital humanities center

Published:05.11.19 — On October 31, the UNIL-EPFL dhCenter was officially launched at the ArtLab DataSquare, as an interdisciplinary research platform between EPFL and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in digital humanities and digital scholarship.

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Events

Infinity Room 2 – ArtLab exhibition

2019-09-132020-03-29

With: Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+)
Place and room: ArtLab pavillon B
Category: Cultural events

ArtLab Exhibition – Visit Lunch for EPFL community (in English)

2020-02-0612:15:0013:00:00

Place and room: ART B0 100
Category: Exhibitions

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Walter Thompson, Soundpainting, photo Guillaume Le Baube

Soundpainting at EPFL – Silent Cinema & Improvisation

2020-02-1818:00:0019:30:00

With: Walter Thompson et un orchestre de 17 étudiants de l’EPFL et de l’UNIL
Place and room: ArtLab DataSquare (pavillon A)
Category: Cultural events

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