PrintRoom presents, develops and supports artistic strategies of independent publishing. Founded in 2003 as a travelling and growing collection of artist publications, PrintRoom is currently based in Rotterdam where it hosts exhibitions, conversations, book launches, performances and workshops for a diverse audience.
Address:
Schietbaanstraat 17
NL3014 ZV Rotterdam
(just behind Nieuwe Binnenweg, tram 4 from Central Station or a 10/15 minutes walk).
Van Speykstraat 121 (Riso Lab)
3014VG Rotterdam (Riso lab – soon our shop will move here too)
E-mail:
info(at)printroom(dot)org
Phone: 06 18012478
Open:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12.00 – 18.00
Our Riso Space is open on Thursdays and Friday from 9:30 – 17:30
The archive is open by appointment on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 12:00 – 17:00
PrintRoom has a unique physical collection of experimental publications made by local, national and international artists. Many of these publications, from zines to artist books, are hardly or not at all available in the Netherlands. They can be purchased in the shop at Schietbaanstraat 17, which functions as an event space, archive, reading room and office in one. In addition, PrintRoom runs a workshop space which offers various facilities, including riso stencil machines for do it yourself printing – from collectively designed publications and small flipbooks to posters, banners and zines.
Through creating and publishing artist publications, building and sharing a unique archive, organizing a Publisher in Residence programme and curating various events, PrintRoom connects international networks and local communities on a daily basis. For PrintRoom, artist publishing equals do it yourself together: every publishing project is at the same time a socially engaged, collective process.
Team:
Artistic director: Karin de Jong, Financial director : Tobias Bijl, Archive and documentation: Kimberley Cosmilla, Riso chef: Teuntje Fleur, Reading Room host and events coordinator: Rabea Ridlhammer
Volunteers: ViCi Feger, Robin de Haan, Milou Xiao Wan, Tabea Pawar
Design flyers: Dongyoung Lee, Nicole Martens Studio and Cengiz Mengüç, (and previously: Manuela Porceddu, Moniek Driesse, Team Thursday, Loes Verstappen, Hansje van Halem, Daniel van der Velden, a.o.)
Board: Katinka Enkhuizen, Wapke Feenstra, Mariana Lanari
PrintRoom’s programme of 2025 is themed Books Are Bridges and is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the City of Rotterdam.
PrintRoom has also received funding or was supported by the Mondriaan Fund, CBK Rotterdam, Pictoright Fonds, Stichting Stokroos, Stichting Volkskracht Rotterdam, het Cultuurfonds, OCCA (Norway), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Piet Zwart Institute, Estonian Cultural Endowment, The Dutch Institute (Beirut), Woonstad Rotterdam, Antalis Nederland, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico), among others.
