THE JURY

Christiane Meixner

Christiane Meixner is an editor for the newspaper Tagesspiegel and the magazine Weltkunst. She began writing about contemporary art while studying art history in Bonn and expanded it further after moving to the art metropolis of Cologne in 1992. Since 1999, she has been following the art scene in Berlin, writing from here for the Frankfurter Rundschau, Monopol orKunstforum, among others, and was head of the Kunstmarkt der Zeit from 2017-2019. Despite her concentration on mercantile aspects, she is still most fascinated by direct engagement with art - especially with the subject of drawing such as works on or with paper in general.

Stine Albertsen

Stine Albertsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark,

Co-founded Artfacts.Net in 2001.

With now more than 20 years of experience in art and technology, she co-founded Artfacts in 2001, the leading digital archive and analyst for contemporary art, and its latest addition - Limna, the AI-powered Art Advisor in your Pocket, launched as a mobile app in summer 2021.

Valeria Schulte-Fischedick

Valeria Schulte-Fischedick is currently heading the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Her latest project there was the curation of the upcoming group exhibition Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters. After finishing her art history studies at Humbold University Berlin, she worked, among others, for the exhibition Louise Bourgeois – Intime Abstraktionen, at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. 2010 until 2013, she was Director at Galerie Opdahl in Berlin. She has published contributions in art journals and exhibition catalogs.

Silvie Aigner

Silvie Aigner studied art history, completed postgraduate studies in cultural management and obtained a doctorate in art studies. She managed the Vienna office of Artscope International from 1991 to 1994 and publishes regularly in art journals. She works as a writer and curator in the field of contemporary art for international and Austrian museums and collections. Since May 2014 she has been editor-in-chief of the art magazine PARNASS.

Jana Schumacher

Jana Schumacher is a visual artist from Hamburg with a focus on abstract drawing and site-specific installations. Order and chaos, collective strategies of action in times of social or environmental change, as well as connections between art and science are central themes of her artistic work. Paper plays a fundamental role

in this.

Together with her partner Drew Matott, she runs the St. Pauli Paperstudio.

Scholarship holder Paper Residency ! 2020 in Berlin.

Jessica Maria Toliver

Jessica Maria Toliver is a visual artist with a studio in Schwerte, North Rhine-Westphalia.
She has been working in artistic dialogue with paper since 2008. Initially with a focus on often space-oriented paper cuts, she
paper cuts, she increasingly concentrates on multi-layered, conceptual work cycles.
In doing so, she communicates with her material like with a breathing organism and explores the contrast between coarse, abstract
of rough, archaic form and filigree fragility on a sometimes highly abstract level.

In 2022, Jessica Maria Toliver was a scholarship holder at the Paper Residency ! in Munich.

Simon Häuser

Simon Häuser (born in Karlsruhe in 1990) studied art history in Freiburg and Berlin. He curates exhibitions at Schloss Neuhardenberg, the Bröhan Museum in Berlin, the Museum of Photography in Görlitz and the Literaturhaus Berlin, and was a member of the jury for the Brandenburgischen Kunstpreises in 2023 and 2024. Furthermore, he works as an author of articles for exhibition catalogues on art from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Ludwig Seyfarth

Ludwig Seyfarth (*1960 in Hamburg) is an art historian, author, and curator. He lives in Berlin and has been conceiving exhibitions for KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION in Düsseldorf since 2010. In 2007, he received the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Criticism.

Annette Berr

for d'mage

Director at d’mage, founder and executive manager at d’mage-light, Paper Residency! and the museum Haus des Papiers.
Passionate about art, literature, people. She released numerous books and records and, for decades, toured with different performances all across the country. Recipient of nominations, awards, and scholarships. A turning point led to a re-orientation. Since 2009, she has been running the Fine Art-Print manufacture d’mage and creating impulses all around its cultural network.

Bettina Scheerbarth für Hahnemühle

Paperlove is her passion and her job at the paper manufacturer Hahnemühle. As a trained journalist - with Berlin roots - Bettina has been loyal to fine paper for almost 20 years. She established PR/marketing communications at the traditional German company and is now responsible for corporate and sustainability communications at Hahnemühle. Personally, she is inspired by photography and architecture.

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Vergabekriterien

AWARD ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Participation in the upcoming paper positions berlin art fair (e.g. through the artist’s own gallery) is an essential prerequisite for nomination. All contemporary works that are physically presented at the fair and meet the award criteria will be evaluated by the jury.

There is no age restriction for participating artists.

There are no restrictions regarding place of residence or country of origin.

The PAPER ART AWARD recognises paper art that engages with paper as a material in an outstanding, multidimensional, inspiring and independent way. The following aspects are taken into consideration in the evaluation: artistic quality, originality, innovative practice, potential, and possibilities for further artistic development. The work may provide inspiration and sharpen our perception of what moves us.

To be eligible for the award, the artwork must fulfil at least one of the following criteria:

It is a sculptural, installation-based or otherwise multidimensional work of paper art.
It is a work that explores, develops or places paper, cellulose, natural fibres or other fibre-based materials in new material contexts as independent artistic materials.
It is an experimental artistic position that opens up new material perspectives or expands the traditional boundaries of paper as a material.
It is a drawing, painting or print that has been artistically transformed or processed in a multidimensional way.
In justified exceptional cases, drawings, paintings, collages, prints or fine art prints may also be considered if paper itself is an integral part of the artistic concept and, through its treatment, processing or conceptual integration, goes beyond its function as an image carrier.

Explicitly excluded from these criteria are drawings, paintings or prints that have NOT been artistically transformed or processed in a multidimensional way.

The prize money is used to acquire the awarded works, or works by the awarded artists, for the collection of the paper art museum Haus des Papiers, making them accessible to the public within the museum’s exhibition spaces.