Across the Bijloke site, you’ll discover the graduation projects of our visual arts and design students, presented this year as a bouquet of fines fleurs. Feel free to put together your own bouquet as you stroll through our buildings and gardens. Whether the work has been home-grown, cultivated or has sprung up wild, our students will show you its colours, textures and blooms.

With works by students in photography, graphic design, autonomous design, fine arts, textile design, fashion, musical instrument making, interior design, landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, curatorial studies, educational master in audiovisual and visual arts and the educational master in music and performing arts.

BOOKSHOP

Six graphic design students (Eline Cremers, Mira Keygnaert, Inès De Laender, Liv Meysman, Maïté van Genugten, and Maud Declerck) warmly welcome you to their Bookshop during the Graduation Weekend. Here, you’ll find a diverse selection of publications, zines, posters, drawings, T-shirts, theses, and other unique editions. Furthermore, masterstudent Maud Declerck will make live radio with Radio.(punt).

PERFORMANCES

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• 14:00, The Story Behind the Curtain, Mona A.Shahi
  interactieve installatie & storytelling, 30-60min.
  Filmstudio
• 15:00, KopieKar, Karin De Vos, Lotte Baelen, Hana Hassanzadeh Kiani
  Workshop
  Louis Van Houtte tuin
• 15:00 Tussen ons Het Koord, Gaia op de Weegh
  performance, 40-50min.
  Filmstudio
• 16:00, Participative conversation: Crafts of horizontality, Annelies Clerix
  participatory performance, 30-60min.
  R1
• 16:00, Graduation Clearance Sale!, Youssef Elkhiar
  public sale, 45min.
  KASKcafé

OPENING HOURS

• 25.06.26, 15:00 – 22:00
• 26.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00
• 27.06.26, 10:00 - 21:00
• 28.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00

The Story Behind the Curtain, Mona A.Shahi

The Story Behind the Curtain is an interactive installation inspired by Pardeh-khani, a traditional Iranian storytelling practice.

Using four magic lanterns representing the main characters of the story of Siavash, participants can alter the visibility of each character by changing their position in space. In this system, visibility functions as power: the larger a character appears on the screen, the greater their influence within the narrative.

Each new arrangement activates a different version of the story, inviting audiences to reflect on how narratives are shaped by repetition, perspective, and the distribution of power.

• Credits: Mona A.Shahi - Thijs Deschildre

Tussen ons Het Koord, Gaia op de Weegh

As a Dutch woman married to an Ecuadorian man, Gaia lives in a constant negotiation with borders. In Tussen ons het koord (Between Us, the Tightrope), she explores how political, bureaucratic, and cultural systems affect the intimate: love, family, and the body. Through her international and multicultural relationship, she re-examines her own background, privileges, and assumptions.

Through movement, tightrope balancing, and text, Gaia reveals a vulnerable exercise in finding balance.

Tussen ons het koord is an intimate, multidisciplinary performance about family, love, and migration.

• Performer/Maker: Gaia op de Weegh, Muziek: Paul op de Weegh, Mentor: Geert Belpaeme

Participative conversation: Crafts of horizontality, Annelies Clerix

For a moment we will form a collective. In this game we will enter in a dialogue about each others needs, while trying to collaborate in a non-hierarchical way.

Graduation Clearance Sale!, Youssef Elkhiar

The abandoned attempts. The prototypes. The fragments. The studies. The works too awkward to keep, too strange to place, or simply left behind.

During the Graduation Exhibition, we will bring these overlooked works together in an auction—a chance for them to circulate once more, finding new owners through exchange, encounter, and appreciation.

Every work is auctioned on behalf of its maker, and 100% of the proceeds go directly back to the artist.

The auction will take place at the KASK Café.