Across the Bijloke campus, 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.

OPENING PARTY

You can visit the Graduation Expo from 15:00 to 22:00, followed by a festive gathering starting at 20:00. In the Louis Van Houttetuin, you can enjoy a drink and the garden bar with DJs. Cheers!

• 20:00-22:00 DJ Zonnevlecht
• 22:00-00:30 Holy Mary (Inès De Laender)
• 00:30-03:00 Smaat (Mats Van Paridon) and Laster (Winter Dieleman)

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

• 17:00, The Story Behind the Curtain, Mona A.Shahi
  interactive installation & storytelling, 30-60min.
  Filmstudio
• 18:00, Ribbon Dance Notation, Agata Wala
  performative installation, 15-20min.
  R1
• 19:00, Tussen ons Het Koord, Gaia op de Weegh
  performance, 40-50min.
  Filmstudio
• 20:30 untitled 3”, Quinten Tessenaere
  Filmstudio

PROFESSIONAL BACHELORS

In R12, the interior design, landscape & garden architecture and landscape development programmes are continuously showcasing the final-year students’ graduation projects.

• 19:00, opening evening programme
• 19:30, a speech by the chair of the Architectural Design department and the programme director for interior design, followed by a presentation by four final-year interior design students.

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 

Ribbon Dance Notation, Agata Wala

How can choreography function as a rule-based system that generates spatial patterns through the interlacing of bodies, movement, and time? This project investigates how choreography can function as a rule-based system that generates patterns in space. By translating the Maypole dance into a symbolic notation, linked to the binary language, the choreography becomes a set of instructions similar to an algorithm.The movement of the dancers produces woven structures that demonstrate the mathematical logic hidden within a traditional ritual.

This project can function as a system of language and rules.. Each dancer becomes a “thread”moving through the environment, and their interactions generate patterns that could not exist individually. Personally, this project reflects my attempt to reconnect different parts of my own experience.Coming from a background in architecture, I was trained to think about form through systems, proportions and mathematical logic. After moving from Poland to Belgium, I began searching for ways to reconnect with my cultural roots and started working with traditional rituals

Author: Agata Wala, Music: Vadim Bakker, Costumes: Maciej Kozłowski, Iga Radecka
Dancers: Noor Phlips, Rafael Proenca, Roos Bylois Maldoy, Trui Van Landuyt, Sterre Marte Van Dromme; Liana Geysen – Rymenants, Quinten Declercq, Nais Elouard

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