Biennale Images Vevey 2027 Open Call for the Cuisine Pavilion
Multidisciplinary collectives are invited to design, activate, and manage the Cuisine Pavilion—a communal kitchen serving as both a functional gathering space and artistic project—combining cooking, hospitality, architecture, and community engagement throughout the June 2027 festival.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- deadline unknown, verify at source
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- $15,000
- Location
- Vevey, Switzerland (Esplanade de la Paix along Lake Geneva)
- Exhibition window
- Jun 16, 2027 → Jun 20, 2027
About
Overview
Biennale Images Vevey invites multidisciplinary collectives to design, activate, and manage the Cuisine Pavilion, the social and culinary heart of the 2027 festival. Located on the Esplanade de la Paix along Lake Geneva, this architecturally designed modular structure functions simultaneously as a kitchen, meeting place, performance venue, discussion forum, dining area, and gathering space. Rather than conventional catering, the Cuisine Pavilion will host themed meals, concerts, public conversations, citizens' assemblies, collective cooking sessions, and multidisciplinary artistic programming.
Eligibility
Open to international collectives and multidisciplinary teams. Artists, designers, architects, chefs, food practitioners, cultural producers, and socially engaged practitioners are encouraged to apply. Collaborative groups with experience in community-based projects, hospitality, food culture, or participatory artistic practices are particularly welcome. Applicants must be able to manage both artistic programming and meal services and be available to work in Vevey during the installation period and throughout the festival dates. No nationality or age restrictions.
Key Dates
- Open Call Launch: July 2026
- Online Information Session: 30 July 2026
- Application Deadline (Phase 1): Late August 2026
- Shortlist Announcement: Late September 2026
- Research Phase (Phase 2): Late September 2026
- Final Selection: Early October 2026
- Collaborative Development: October – November 2026
- Production Phase: December 2026 – February 2027
- Installation in Vevey: 1–16 June 2027
- Biennale Images Vevey 2027: 16–20 June 2027
Project Requirements
The selected collective will prepare affordable vegetarian meals with vegan options while developing creative programming that reflects collaboration, sustainability, craftsmanship, and public participation. The project should emphasize seasonal ingredients, regional food culture, environmentally conscious practices, and meaningful interaction between artists, local producers, residents, and festival audiences. Cooking is to be viewed as a creative medium capable of generating dialogue, experimentation, and collective imagination.
Cuisine Pavilion Details
The specially designed modular pavilion functions as both an artistic architectural installation and a functional kitchen. It features a wood-fired brick oven, gas cooking stations, dining tables and communal seating, shelving and bar area, textile installations, signage, flexible interior layouts, and public gathering spaces. The selected collective will serve approximately 100 guests per day Wednesday–Thursday and 150 guests per day Friday–Sunday.
Benefits & Awards
- Project budget of CHF 15,000 (VAT included)
- Artist fees
- Coverage of travel-related project expenses
- Production support from Biennale Images Vevey
- Curatorial mentorship from foodculture days
- Collaboration with local farmers, producers, artisans, and foraging specialists
- Volunteer assistance during installation and operation
- Access to fully equipped professional kitchen
- Accommodation in Vevey covered by foodculture days
- Food costs covered by foodculture days
- International visibility through festival programming
- Shortlisted collectives receive: CHF 250 research and proposal development fee, online consultation with organizing team, and opportunity to develop their concept during Phase 2
Application
Online application. No application fee.
- Award
- Project budget of CHF 15,000 (VAT included), artist fees, coverage of travel-related expenses, production support, curatorial mentorship, collaboration with local producers, volunteer assistance, accommodation in Vevey, food costs covered, and international visibility at a major photography and public art festival. Shortlisted collectives receive CHF 250 research fee and online consultation.
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- Food as a cultural, social, and artistic practice: the call seeks an innovative project that transforms cooking, hospitality, and communal dining into an artistic and social practice emphasizing seasonal ingredients, regional food culture, sustainability, craftsmanship, and meaningful public participation.
- Eligibility
- Open to international collectives and multidisciplinary teams with experience in community-based projects, hospitality, food culture, or participatory artistic practices. No nationality or age restrictions. Must be available to work in Vevey during installation and throughout festival dates.
- Audience
- Open to international collectives and multidisciplinary teams; artists, designers, architects, chefs, food practitioners, cultural producers, and socially engaged practitioners encouraged to apply.
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