Venues & stages
La Dolce Vita
- Type
- Vanished club
- Address
- Rue du Docteur-César-Roux 30, 1005 Lausanne
No longer exists today
A concert hall and club in Lausanne, opened in the 1980s, which became a landmark of rock, punk and the beginnings of hip-hop in French-speaking Switzerland.
A logo for twelve bottles
Keith Haring’s drawing
The club’s logo is a drawing by Keith Haring. The rapper Carlos Leal, who played his first gigs there with Sens Unik, described the commission in 2022: “Pierre Keller organises Keith Haring’s visit to Lausanne. That is where he created the logo of the legendary club in exchange for… twelve bottles of wine, Mouton Rothschild, mind you.”
Leal places the scene in 1985; the photograph showing the artist in the club’s foyer is dated 2 October 1987. The drawing is now on show at the Musée historique de Lausanne.
What the place stood for, he puts like this: “La Dolce, legendary, revolutionary and the opposite of well-meaning Swiss cosiness. Punks, rockers, b-boys, party-goers, Lausanne on the move, the Lôzanne family. I saw the best concerts there, I lived the wildest nights there.”
Related artists :Keith HaringPierre Keller