Iapma Congress 2025 - Open Calls
INTERNATIONAL (IAPMA MEMBERS)
The biennial IAPMA Congress is an international affair for members from all over the world to meet up in person. Congresses have been held every second year since IAPMA’s founding in 1986 with only few exceptions. Organizing committees for the Congresses in different countries typically provide insight into their local paper history. During a Congress, members have the opportunity to share their knowledge of papermaking through lectures, demonstrations, workshops and panel discussions. Post-Congress Tour trips include visits to paper mills, artists' studios, paper factories or museums are arranged. In the Paper Market during the Congress, members can also exhibit and sell their own work according to the particular Congress program for that year. Part of the Congress program is often a suitcase exhibition and one or more exhibitions in different venues.
The congress takes place from October 29, 2025 until November 02, 2025.
The IAPMA Congress 2025, titled “PAPER & WATER", will be held in the coastal city of Shanghai, China, a city between history and tradition, modernity and high tech — a city surrounded by a river on all sides, with trade links in the south of the Yangtze River and the East China Ocean.
There are five artist opportunities available to IAPMA Members in conjunction with this Congress, includng: