Rising Print Exhibit at Haus des Papiers Berlin Features Filipino Printmaker Marz Aglipay

Filipino printmaker Marz Aglipay has been selected for the Rising Print Exhibit at Haus des Papiers in Berlin, Germany, after being shortlisted through an international open call organized by Open Press Project. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists whose works explore innovative approaches to printmaking and paper art.

A jury of respected artists and printmaking professionals selected the participating works from around the world. Aglipay is the only artist from the Philippines included in the six-month exhibition, which opened at Haus des Papiers in December 2025.

Established in 2019, Haus des Papiers (House of Paper) is a museum dedicated exclusively to paper as an artistic medium. Located in central Berlin, the institution showcases modern and contemporary paper art, highlighting artists who experiment with the material’s sculptural, conceptual, and expressive possibilities. The Berlin print exhibition continues the museum’s mission of presenting works that challenge traditional definitions of printmaking.

For the Rising Print Exhibit, Open Press Project—the creators of portable 3D-printed printing presses—invited artists worldwide to submit small-format sculptural prints that explore paper beyond the printed image. The open call encouraged artists to incorporate techniques such as embossing, folding, layering, collaging, sculpting, and other experimental methods that celebrate paper as both surface and object.

Aglipay’s selected work, Home Movies, transforms a miniature relief print into a sculptural VHS cassette, measuring 66 × 53 mm as a print and 29 × 54 × 7 mm as a three-dimensional object. The piece reflects on nostalgia, memory, and the tactile rituals of renting and collecting videotapes, demonstrating how contemporary printmaking can extend beyond two-dimensional formats.

The work also serves as the conceptual foundation for Aglipay’s larger sculptural blockprint installation, All the films we rented, returned, and I wish I could watch with you again, which was recently exhibited at Ink, Press, Repeat, at AltroMondo Creative Space in Makati City. By expanding the intimate scale of Home Movies into an interactive installation, the artist explores how repeated handling and audience participation become part of the work’s evolving history.

written by K. Hau

Rising Print Exhibit at Haus des Papiers

The full list of selected artists for the Rising Print Exhibit at Haus des Papiers can be viewed here, showcasing an international survey of contemporary printmaking and experimental paper art practices.

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Watch: Aglipay’s entry “Home Movies” to the open call