AFGANG 2026 (graduation exhibition)

Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts invites you to the opening of the Graduation and Academy Exhibition 2026 on Wednesday, May 20, at 3-6 p.m. There will be a welcome and presentation of this year's graduating students by Rector Marianne Gasbjerg at 3-4 p.m. The exhibitions will open after the speech at 4 p.m. and can be experienced in the premises of Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts.

Graduating students 2026

Alberte Fujia Fyhn Liboriussen, Amanda Kessaris, Birthe Dabelstein, Eyð Matras, Gitte Dahlgren Korr, Katja Nørgård Nielsen, Mona Stokbæk, Ole Overgaard Rasmussen, Rikke Nørgaard Zachariasen, Stine Møller Hansen, Vanda Zwick. 

The Academy exhibition presents works and process projects by 1st-3rd year students from the liberal education at Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts.

Opening hours

GRADUATION 2026: May 21-31, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Academy Exhibition 2026: 21 – 25 May 11am-5pm. 

All are welcome.

MEET GRADUATE 2026 Amanda Kessaris

Title: Is_anyone_there?.png

In 'Is_anyone_there?.png' I reconstruct childhood memories through discarded building materials and examine the duality of how technology can simultaneously make us absent and present. The PNG pattern, created in mosaic, functions as both a blank canvas and negative space – a digital void where one can "cut and paste" that or those who have been, may never have been, or will one day be, to fill the space. Here I remove the people from a snapshot in a longing to be able to insert myself again – in time, place and memory. The series of works revolves around belonging, nostalgia, longing and loss of time. Across media, I create traces of what once was, and let memories of vanished places and situations emerge. Based on both personal and general human experiences, I examine how our fast, digital and overproducing contemporary world awakens a longing for the slow, the analog and for times we may never have known ourselves.

Amanda is graduating from the Hybrid department.

AFGANG 2026 can be seen at Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts from 21-31 May at 11am-5pm.

Opening 20 May at 3pm-6pm.