Over the past five years, 21 exhibitions have been organized in the Paper Art & Design gallery and display windows, where (inter)national artists and designers working with paper have shown their work. In cooperation with the artists, we have propagated the versatility of paper.
21 Sound – Clay – Paper
The exhibition shows similarities (and differences) in images, but sound is also a new element. What sound is where and can it be combined to create added value?
20 Plant Fever
In recent years, Loes Schepens has started to make more art (again) from native Dutch plants. The fever toward using purely natural materials has flared up, so to speak. Perhaps it has to do with the awareness we are seeing lately about the importance of nature.
19 Before, in-between behind
Hans Lankes (Germany) cutouts go beyond the scope of the well-known papercuts in a radical, personal and contemporary way.
18 Resonance Connection
Folding paper creates a crease that cannot be removed, similar to how a cut may leave a scar. The scar may fade but it will always mark the surface.
17 Testing Ground
Marieke van Mieghem and Loes Schepens work with natural materials and conduct endless experiments with them before creating the unique piece. This research leads to insight and further choices. For the last 2 years they have been working with flax and vegetable dyeing it with madder, indigo, chestnut, alder and walnut.
16 Get in touch
What was one of the most normal things, touch, suddenly became strange, during the pandemic. There was a desire for each other’s attention and the abnormal became normal.
15 Stil lives | Kosmos
Based on black and white sketches, Annelies Morris makes collages of paper from her own collection, sometimes handmade with frayed edges. She also sketches with thread via embroidery with the sewing machine. Loes Schepens makes wall sculptures form her own grown flax.
14 Flax | Paper
The unique fabrics, objects and artworks in this exhibition are made with infinite care for the material. Flax is on a new rise and a number of varieties have been cultivated on Dutch soil in recent years, including the linen project* in the eastern part of the country.
13 Desire for the open, time disappears
As pioneers in the 1970s, Peter Gentenaar and Pat Torley explored every way to make art with their own handmade paper. Each developed a unique technique. Peter’s work became entirely three-dimensional after years of experimentation, and Pat’s work culminated in paintings made from paper pulp.
12 SPECIMENS | Forgotten Seeds
12 SPECIMENS | Forgotten Seeds 25 04 > 10 07 2021 Marlies Lageweg, Loes Schepens SPECIMENS For the ongoing project SPECIMENS, visual artist Marlies Lageweg focuses on Naturalis’ “economic plant and seed archive”, a library of materials from colonial history assembled by Dutch researchers and trading companies that helped open up the colonies. SPECIMENS reflects…
11 Collages In the windows
The Collage Spring exhibition with colorful collages created by several artists: Frances van Gool, Marte Haverkamp, Caroline Ellerbeck and Danièle Knirim. Themes are nature, architecture, everyday objects and people.
10 Floating Observations
10 Floating Observations 17 10 2020 > 05 01 2021 H.E.R.B.S. Paper | Danièle Knirim H.E.R.B.S. Paper, a project by FANT, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet and Loes Schepens After a long research, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet discovered that herbs used as textile dye can have a positive effect on our health. But the dyeing process produces waste…
09 A Spark of Joy
09 A Spark of Joy 18 07 > 03 10 2020 Ilse Pierard | Gabi Rets How complex is the core of life, how complex its representation? In her artistic paper works llse Pierard focusses on the abstracted form of a cell, the basic and the smallest unit of life. Her intriguing and fragile paper works in their reduced…
08 In Between
The paper artworks in this exhibition can be traced back to natural environments: animals, plants, the sea and their structures.
07 Imaginary nature in paper
Three Dutch artists approach nature in their own unique way and translate that into paper works of art: pulp paintings, cuttings and objects.
06 Earthly Elements
Stones are the building blocks of the cosmos, here on earth they are the crystallization of nature. They are everything we humans are not, durable, strong and unyielding.
05 Source Wonder World
Campers, cottages and flowers form architectural still lifes from white paper. In contrast to a large installation that tells about the diversity of people.
04 Moved Lines
Works of art in paper, installations are currently at the heart of an issue about social involvement. Another starting point is a music composition, the use of rhythm, in which the chosen sounds give colour to the piece.
03 Paper Facets
Danièle Knirim exhibits her collages, which she makes from paper and old books. In the series ‘Undressed’, people are depicted in layers of paper, dressing and undressing themselves.
02 See, Walk and Admire
Fashion, environment and cultural history come together in this unique exhibition of paper and cardboard shoes. What is there to see? The fascination of shoe designers and artists with paper…
01 We are open
The opening of the gallery, shop and workshop Paper Art & Design in the Weimarstraat, The Hague. For sale are works of art and products made of paper.