IAPMA Exhibitions
Browse through all IAPMA exhibitions that currently take place. We also provide information about future exhibitions and exhibitions from the past.
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 - 16
Saturday - Sunday
11 - 17
Monday closed
SUMMER (April - October)
Tuesday - Sunday
10 - 17
Monday closed
(except Monday 6 April and Monday 25 May)
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)
Open Call for Artworks
Open Call for Artist in Residence Program
Further information:
www.iapma.info
www.silkeborgbad.dk