Linked Lights and Living Skin Lead Hague Graduates Showcase

Two lights change as one. A sculpture reads like living skin. Both belong to this year's graduates from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands, known as KABK, whose work is now featured in a round-up by design publication Dezeen.

Dezeen published the selection on 30 September 2026 as part of School Shows, its platform for sharing student projects from design schools. The feature is titled 'Sculptural installation among projects from Royal Academy of Art, The Hague', according to Dezeen. It draws on the school's Graduation Show 2026, which brought together more than 220 art and design works.

That number matters. The show reflected the personal and collective experiences of more than 220 international graduates, as reported by Dezeen. The school runs BA and MA programmes in Art and Design, so the final display mixed first-degree explorations with longer research-led projects.

The most explained work is 'Will We Align?' by Irja Linnerud. Linnerud is a bachelor's student in Interactive Media Design at KABK. The installation, meaning art built for a space rather than hung on a wall, takes its cue from quantum communication and uses light as a visual language for relationships and directions.

The mechanics are easy to follow. Two central light sources are paired. When one changes, the other changes too. The set-up borrows from quantum entanglement, the physics idea where linked particles mirror each other even at a distance, according to Dezeen.

Another highlighted project stays closer to the body. It is a flesh-like installation built around mutual dependence between body, material, object and environment. Viewers are asked to read skin and structure together. The effect is simple to look at. Think contact, not costume.

Sculpture carries the third idea in the selection. Dezeen reported that the round-up also includes work exploring the vulnerability of living organisms through sculptural form. The listing gives the theme rather than a full walk-through, leaving the object to do the talking.

What makes this stand out is the shared curiosity. Light signals, bodily surfaces and fragile creatures do not obviously belong in one show. Put side by side, they all ask how things stay linked and what happens when the link strains.