Get your Paper here!
Formation Gallery
22 May 2026 – 04 Jul 2026
Idun Balzersen (SE), Heiko Blankenstein (DE/CH), Magali Cazo (FR), Cathrine Raben Davidsen (DK), Johanne Helga Heiberg (DK), Roos Holleman (NL), Brian McHenry (UK/IE), Mad Meg (FR), Maldo Nollimerg (FR), Ragnar Persson (SE), Jon Pilkington (UK/DK), Krista Rosenkilde (DK), Morten Schelde (DK), Simon Schubert (DE), Isabella Vella (CA/UK), Michael Würtz Overbeck (DK)
Formation Gallery presents Get Your Paper Here!, a group exhibition focusing on contemporary international drawing and paper-based works. The exhibition brings together 16 artists from France, Belgium, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, and Denmark in an exploration of the position of drawing today - across geographies, traditions, and artistic approaches.
The exhibition marks the first time the gallery dedicates an entire format to a medium that has been central to its practice for the past 13 years. Across both galleries (Format and Formation), paper and drawing have constituted a sustained interest—as material, mode of thinking, and artistic practice. With Get Your Paper Here!, this profile now unfolds in a distinct, annually recurring exhibition focusing on contemporary drawing and paper art as an independent and complex field.
This first edition is co-curated by gallery artist Morten Schelde, one of the most prominent voices within drawing in Denmark. The exhibition has been developed through a collaboration between the gallery and Schelde and reflects a shared curiosity about how drawing today unfolds across national and artistic contexts.
Starting from the seemingly simple, pencil and paper, the exhibition opens onto a highly diverse field. Here, drawing appears not as preparatory study or sketch, but as an autonomous practice in which thought and action are inseparably linked. In the tension between Danish and international positions, the works range from the intuitive and gestural to the stringent and systematic, revolving around themes such as the body, landscape, memory, structure, and materiality.
As a medium, drawing, as well as paper itself, possesses a particular immediacy. The direct contact between pencil and paper creates an almost phenomenological one-to-one relationship between artwork and viewer - a familiar experience that points back to drawing’s fundamental role as one of the most accessible and intimate artistic expressions. At the same time, this simplicity opens up an almost infinite complexity.
Paper emerges not merely as a support, but as an active collaborator. The works investigate its material properties—how it absorbs, resists, folds, shades, cuts, and accumulates—and reveal it as a kind of organism that reacts, collaborates, and participates in the making of the work. Within this interplay of control, play, experimentation, and unpredictability, a space arises where the personal and the universal coexist.
Through the 16 artistic practices, a picture emerges of a medium in constant motion. Art on paper appears as an open field in which different statements exist side by side, expanding our understanding of what drawing and paper-based works can be.
