IAPMA Exhibitions

Event Dates

The IAPMA exhibition is opened from February 01, 2026 until December 31, 2026.

Artist

More specific dates will be announced when available.

Opening Hours

February 7 - May 25, 2026
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Winter (November - March):
Tuesday - Friday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday closed
Summer (April - October):
Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday closed (except April 6 and May 25)

June 1 - July 31, 2026
Galerie Handwerk
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Monday and Sunday Closed

RANT Arts
45-47 Stewart Street
Devonport. TAS 7310

Location

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Gjessøvej 40
8600 Silkeborg
Denmark

Galerie Handwerk
Max-Joseph-Straße 4
80333 München
Germany

RANT Arts
45-47 Stewart St
Devonport TAS 7310
Australia

More Information

In celebration of its 40th anniversary on May 24, 2026, IAPMA is delighted to announce a special jubilee initiative: the “Ruby Jubilee Collection”. This global project brings together a curated series of postcards (mail art) created by IAPMA members from around the world, highlighting contemporary Paper Art and the artistry of handmade paper in a mail-art format.

The Ruby Jubilee Collection will be exhibited at the IAPMA Paper Art Biennale 2026 at Art Centre Silkeborg Bad in Denmark, followed by presentations at Galerie Handwerk Munich, Germany as part of the exhibition "Papier perFormt" and in Devonport, Australia in collaboration with Paper on Skin™ and RANT Arts. Following its exhibition tour, the postcard collection will be preserved as part of IAPMA’s physical archive, currently housed in Dresden, Germany.

To participate in the open call, which has been extended to December 31, 2025, please refer to the listing below:
Ruby Jubilee Collection Open Call

Further information:
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad (Denmark)
Galerie Handwerk Munich (Germany)
Paper on Skin™ and RANT Arts (Australia)

Event Dates

The IAPMA exhibition is opened from February 07, 2026 until May 25, 2026.

Opening Hours

Summer (1 April 1 to 31 October 31)
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday closed

Winter (1 November 1 — March 31)
Tuesday — Friday: 11 a.m. — 4 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday & public holidays: 11 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Monday closed

Location

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Gjessøvej 40
8600 Silkeborg

More Information

The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) e.V. and Art Centre Silkeborg Bad (Silkeborg, Denmark) present the IAPMA PAPER ART BIENNALE 2026 — Impressions of Nature: Paper as Memory.

Celebrating its 40-year anniversary, IAPMA marks this milestone with an international exhibition featuring works by more than 100 artists from around the world at Art Centre Silkeborg Bad. The exhibition also includes the Ruby Jubilee Collection, a special IAPMA mail art project comprising more than 110 international postcards. The Biennale is accompanied by an artist in residence programme funded by Art Centre Silkeborg Bad.

Through the exhibition theme artists explored paper as a living palimpsest — a material that absorbs and preserves the layered traces of life. Originally from the Greek palin (again) and psēstos (scraped), a palimpsest was a manuscript in which older writing was partially erased to make space for new text while remnants of the original remained. Today, the word refers more broadly to any surface or object that holds visible layers of change, memory or history.

Paper is more than a surface for marks — it is a sensitive body that remembers. Each fold, crease and impression echoes the gestures of both nature and human presence, transforming paper into a vessel of memory. When paper is created from other materials — worn textiles, handwritten pages or plant fibers — it retains something of its origins. These embedded histories remain visible or felt, forming a quiet continuity between past and present. Through the tactile and repetitive processes of papermaking — tearing, pulping and pressing — paper collects and carries stories not by overwriting them but by layering meaning.

ARTISTS:
Loulia Akhmadeeva (Mexico); Josefien Alkema (Netherlands); Camilla Augustinus (Denmark);
John Babcock (USA); Jane Balsgaard (Denmark); Amanda Benn (Australia); Heike Berl (Germany); Mischa Björkroos (Sweden); Meg Black (USA); Eszter Bornemisza (Hungary);
Lian Brehm (USA); Anita Brendgens (Netherlands); Carole Bury (UK); Danqi Cai (USA); April Capalungan (Philippines); Kae Carlstedt-Duke (UK); IChun Cheng (Taiwan); Anzara Clark (Australia); Viviane Colautti Ivanova (France); Christine Cougoule (France); Susan Cutts (UK); Jeannine De Raeymaecker (Belgium); Alexandra Deutsch (Germany); Monika Drobeck (Germany); Alex Dunsmuir (Canada); Jan Edwards (UK); Ina Fekken (Netherlands); Sefi Gal (Israel); John Gerard (Germany); Marilou Glinz (Pilou) (Switzerland); Manuela Granziol (Italy); Odette Graskie (South Africa); Camilla Grell (Denmark); Kirsti Grotmol (Norway); Nikol Hanousková (Slovakia); Hongyun He (Germany); Lynne Hudson (USA); Stephanie Huellmann (Germany); Sirpa Ihanus (Finland); Orsolya Tünde Illés (Hungary); Silke Janssen (Germany); Eva Kipp (Netherlands); Ora Kolmanovsky (Israel); Ute Krautkremer (Germany); Helene Lacquement (France); Bara Lehmann-Schulz (Germany); Pernille Lonstrup (Netherlands); Tanja Major (Germany); Heather Matthew (Australia); Maria Matyja-Rozpara (Poland); Anke Meixner (Germany); Kirsten Møller Nielsen (Denmark); Ruth Moro (Switzerland); Barbara Mydlak (Belgium); Karen Olson (USA); Misayo Orita (Japan); Tsu OuYang (Taiwan); Mariela Palmeri (Germany); Yangbin Park (USA); Clare Parry-Jones (UK); Metka Pepelnak (Slovenia); Marta Pérez García (USA); Danielle Petti (Canada); Dizzy Pragnell (UK); Elly Prestegard (Norway); Barbara Proksch (Germany); Kirstin Rabe (Germany); Surzhana Radnaeva (France); Nicola Reich (Germany); Yngve Riber (Denmark); Gerda Ritzmann (Switzerland); Geneviève Rocher (Canada); Vibeke Nørgaard Rønsbo (Denmark); Tatiana Rozenblat (France);
Loes Schepens (Netherlands); Wilhelm Schramm (Austria); Larisa Semke (Germany); Petra Staav (Sweden); Gail Stiffe (Australia); Catherine Stringer (Australia); Lynn Sures (USA); Minnamarina Tammi (Finland); Ziya Tarapore (USA); Gillian Taylor (England, UK); Miroslawa Truchta-Nowicka (Poland); Paulina Tyro-Niezgoda (Poland); Bernadette Van Beek (Netherlands); Henk van der Vorst (Netherlands); Anne Vilsboell (Denmark); Ursula von Kirchbach (Germany); Toshiko Watanabe (Japan); Nadine Werner (Germany); Eva Wilcke (Germany); Käthe Wissmann (Germany); Angelika Wolpert (Germany); Fenneke Wolters-Sinke (UK); Maria Zampelas (Cyprus); Ērika Zutere (Latvia)

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE:

Dominika Sulírová (Czech Republic); Ines Baumgart (Germany); Ravikumar Kashi (Bangalore, India)

OPENING CEREMONY:

Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 11 a.m.

Introduction: Iben From, Director, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Fides Linien, IAPMA President (Germany)
Surzhana Radnaeva, IAPMA Exhibition Coordinator (France)

RSVP: If you plan to attend the opening, please write to: reception@silkeborgbad.dk

FURTHER INFORMATION:
www.iapma.info
www.silkeborgbad.dk


EXHIBITION VENUE:

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad / KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad
Gjessøvej 40
8600 Silkeborg
Denmark
Phone: +45 8681 6329
E-Mail: reception@silkeborgbad.dk