IAPMA Exhibitions
Browse through all IAPMA exhibitions that currently take place. We also provide information about future exhibitions and exhibitions from the past.
TRAVELLING EXHIBITION — IAPMA 40TH ANNIVERSARY RUBY JUBILEE COLLECTION
Denmark
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 12 - August 1, 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 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)
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IAPMA PAPER ART BIENNALE 2026 “IMPRESSIONS OF NATURE: PAPER AS MEMORY”
Denmark
Event Dates
The IAPMA exhibition is opened from February 07, 2026 until May 25, 2026.
Opening Hours
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)
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 IAPMA PAPER ART BIENNALE 2026 – “Impressions of Nature: Paper as Memory.” IAPMA celebrates its 40-year anniversary with this exhibition.
Through the exhibition theme artists will explore 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.
Opening ceremony - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 3 p.m.
Introduction:
Iben From, Director, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Dorte Kirkeby Andersen, Curator, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
Fides Linien, IAPMA President (Germany)
Surzhana Radnaeva (France)
To participate in the open calls, with deadlines of November 22, 2025, please refer to the listings below.
Open Call for Artworks
Open Call for Artist in Residence Program
Further information:
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad (Denmark)