Faces of Antiquity: LoCiS exhibition on Ancient Women Opens at Dokk1
Did you ever wonder about the life of women in the past? Then this is an exhibition for you. Visit for free, from 23 June to 25 August 2026 at Dokk1, Aarhus.
From 23 June until 25 August 2026 the exhibition Faces of Antiquity: Women Who Shaped Their World(Antikens Ansigter: Kvinder der formede deres verden) is on display at Dokk1, Aarhus.
Faces of Antiquity is a research-based poster exhibition that presents representations of women from the ancient world. The display explores how a selection of women were portrayed and commemorated in ancient times. Through a selection of five paintings and sculptures with accompanying texts, the exhibition highlights the contrast between how these women wished to be seen and how their identities were constructed by family, community, regional and imperial structures. The portraits hence offer insight into the daily lives, duties, and aspirations of women in antiquity.
The exhibition is intended for those interested in archaeology, art, and history. It invites visitors to examine the details, colors, and forms of the works to understand how these women interacted with and were influenced by their environments. All texts are available in Danish, English, and German. It is accompanied by an audio station with excerpts from the podcast series Urban Opinion, another outreach initiative which recently came out of the research conducted within the groups headed by Rubina Raja.
The exhibition is the first larger outreach initiative of the "Locally Crafted Empires" Semper Ardens Advanced Grant (LoCiS) project headed by Professor Rubina Raja at Aarhus University. Within the project team members are collecting the world’s largest corpus of ancient portraits from Western Asia and Egypt to review traditional historical narratives and present individual stories. The exhibition was conceptualised and curated by Rubina Raja and post doc Julia Steding.