Current exhibitions
SABBER - AN ORIGINAL PAPER CUTTER
27.01. - 09.06.2024
Jens Jacob Sabber Jensen
Using scissors and brushes as tools, Jens Jacob Sabber Jensen created imaginative, fantastical, and whimsical paper cuts of people, animals, and underground trolls. Some downright beautiful. Others fascinating in their detail. A few are almost Storm P. Like. Depths and darkness can also be found in his papercuts - and humour. Sabber was truly the people’s artist, cutting for the many. Sabber - an original paper cutter unfolds Sabber’s fascinating life story and world of papercuts.
MUSIC IN CUTS
03.02.-28.04.2024
Jørn Peter Lærkesen
With sheep shears and glossy paper, Jørn Peter Lærkesen has immortalised world-class classical concerts - from a running concert in a castle courtyard with the wind ensemble Rennquintett to pianist Kevin Kenner's performance of Chopin. Lærkesen's clips are based on concerts and depict the character and unique atmosphere of musicians, composers and venues. In all of Lærkesen's clips, there is a striking similarity between the portrait and the musicians' distinctive character. He captures their physical features, musicality and personality. An ability that is particularly impressive when working with the silhouette in its purest form.
HANDS ON ORIGAMI
01.10.23–29.09.24
Anne Rudanovski, Erik & Martin Demaine, Hans Dybkjær, Jiangmei Wu, Jun Mitani, Miri Golan, Paul Jackson, Robert J. Lang, Yuko Nishimura.
Origima is a Japanese paper folding art and has been practised since the 17th century. From the end of the 20th century the art of folding has experienced a renewed interest - both artistically and scientifically. Today artists across the whole world still folds big and small sculptures in paper; even scientists within the field of space exploration and medical surgery explores the question of life through origami’s wisdom.
Hands on Origami unfolds the fascinating history of origami and shows examples of its many iterations and purposes.
SCRISSORS FOR A BRUSH
Permanent exhibition
Bit Vejle
In the museum’s core exhibition the world renowned psaligrapher, Bit Vejle, has collected a variety of the many impressive artworks, she has created with her embroidery scissors throughout her life.
Bit Vejle’s world consists of stories with beautiful motifs, but her art holds more than just pretty flowers and chirping birds. Every single papercut has its own story to tell and invites the observer to reflect and interpret. Some touches serious topics, whilst others celebrate the little things.
H.C. ANDERSEN’S PAPERCUT
Permanent exhibition
H.C. Andersen
Danish poet and author H.C. Andersen is world-famous for his countless adventures. He was already recognised in his time as one of the most original authors in 19th-century Europe. However, Andersen is also famous for his imaginative papercuts and is believed to have invented the Danish braided Christmas hearts.
At the Museum for Paperart, you can experience a true national treasure by the beloved Andersen. In cooperation with Museum Odense a new original cut by Andersen will be shown every six months
Upcoming exhibitions
HOLD HOLD GRASP GRASP STAY STAY
22.06.2024-26.01.2025
Ann Iren Buan
Ann Iren Buan works at the crossroads between the medium of drawing and sculpture, exploring perspectives on precariousness. She creates monumental works in paper and pigment that are left in stages of decay, expressing feelings of fear, discomfort and vulnerability. As medial hybrids, the works challenge boundaries between sculpture and drawing, bodies and architecture, strength and vulnerability.
FLYING TRUNK - STORIES WE SHARE
05.10.2024-28.09.2025
Debjani Bhardwaj
Debjani Bhardwaj explores where people are divided and united across borders and cultures, taking the viewer on a journey of fragments, false memories, liberation, and fear. With psaligraphs, tunnel books, and shadow installations that depict bizarre, dreamlike scenarios, Bhardwaj explores universal and site-specific myths and folklore about human existence and hybrid beings. Inspired by ancient stories filled with legends of Mahabarata and the jungle, Bhardwaj seeks to find relationships between the contemporary human condition and the narratives that have shaped it.
Past exhibitions
FRAGMENTED STORIES
04.11.23 - 29.01.2024
Mie Frey Damgaard
PAPER IN SITU - PATTERS ON WALLPAPER
22.01.23 - 22.01.2024
Mie Frey Damgaard
PAPER ART PEOPLE
08.08.2021 - 23.09.2023
Vally Nomidou, Felix Semper, Will Kurtz, Warren King
PAPER JEWELRY
06.06. - 23.08.2023
Lucie Houdková, Verde Alfieri
MEMORIES ATTACHED
28.01. - 04.06.2023
Anne Misfeldt
THE BLOKHUS-EGG 2023
01. - 10.04.2023
Bit Vejle
PAPER TO THE SKY
10.01.2021 - 01.01.2023
Bit Vejle
CHRISTMAS SEALS OF DENMARK
22.11.2022 - 22.01.2023
Julemærkefonden
PAPER IN SITU: FLOATING PAPER
08.04.2022 - 16.01.2023
Yuko Takada Keller
OVE’S RICH’S SEALS
04.06. - 18.09.2022
FANTASY, MAGIC, PAPER, THEATER
13.05.2021 - 27.02.2022
EVA’S CHRISTMAS HEARTS
13.11.2021 - 01.02.2022
LENE’S NAPKINS
01.05. - 24.10.2021
DESIGNBYPAPER
01.10.2020 - 29.07.2021
BALLERINA BULLDOG
04.10.2019 - 12.11.2020
Bit Vejle
POETRY IN PAPER
04.10.2019 - 20.09.2020
Su Blackwell, Amanda Betz, Cecilia Levy, Brian Dettmer, Adrien Mondot, Claire Bardainne, Mette Olsen, Tinne Delfs
PAPER DIALOGUES
22.03. - 22.09.2019
Bit Vejle, Xiaoguang Qiao, Layla Arthur, Emma Reid
THE PAPER’S GEOMETRY
21.09.2018 - 10.03.2019
Hermann Coppus