Lisi Pressl

Someone recently very accurately summarised this small publication as “Urlaubsheft” and I will gladly go with that but here’s how I initially conceived of it: CASA BRUTAL features modernist buildings as ecountered on a walk through Casablanca, Morocco. From an insurance company HQ, to a former cinema, a football arena, and the central post office, the booklet is a warm look at brutalism, commonly celebrated for its cleanliness, hard edges and uncompromising forms. Surrounded by palm trees, blue skies and a hustling metropolis, the analogue amateur photos capture a playful, unassuming encounter with Afrobrutalism, softly scratching the surface of a much broader modernist tradition in post-independence Morocco and beyond. Printed @risofort in Bisque/Federal Blue/Flatallic Gold. Actually posting this unusally timly, so it is available at shop.risofort.press, through me, or at a art book fair near you. Released in December 2025, on the occasion of @cairoartbookfair Zine-fy your Urlaubsfotos. 🌴🤳🤲

You are invited - to a weekend full of two things that, somehow, go very well together: rocks & zines. This two-day workshop consists of a Saturday at Travemünde beach, picking (including but not limited to) fossils of the baltic sea, and a Sunday spend at Risofort, your zine making headquater. Join if you are looking for something; join if you are not looking for anything at all. More infos and booking over at risofort.press/workshops Hosted by Camila Machado @camilasamachado and Lisi Pressl @leasbeth Poster also a co-op by the aforementioned, printed in Light Gray and Moss on Colorplan STONE and Fedrigoni Materica LIMESTONE, incidentally!

Here’s our annual riso redo of a historic feminist poster collaged with a text for you to have in tribute to March 8, International day of feminist solidarity. This poster marks the 5th edition, and you are invited to see the whole series by Lisi Pressl @leasbeth on display this Friday, 6th of March (till 8th of Marach) @villamagdalenak AND pick up this very new one for free! March 6, 18:00, Bernstorffstraße 106a This is a looong one (840x297mm) in 3 colours (Sunflower, Fed blue, and Scarlet). The text is by the always flowery AND fierce Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to (her clearly deeply loved friend) Sophie Liebknecht, reflecting on the end of the world, as well as reminding us of all the possible love for this world; in a way that erases any doubt of its feasibility. The poster motif is by Boston Women’s Graphic Collective from 1972, depicting what we can only assume are core feminist activities, such as community building, going on strike, dancing naked, self reflection, and screen printing. This fragments are held together in a quilt, embroidered with the words: “We are rags and patches Against a raging storm Join together strong and warm." FYI: Very very feeew extra copies will be also available on March 5, during @risofort Open studio 15:30-19:00, if you can’t make it Friday. However, on friday there will also be more protest posters to see and take away, created in a workshop by @risoyeah , plus @johannamariemeyer will show works, so it’s the overall more recommended route. See you somewhere out there!

Am Mittwoch, 19.11.2025, lese ich neben @vinz_schwarzbauer und @kathrinkloeckl bei @zusammen_lesen in Graz aus meinem Comic-Projekt. “Bald nach der Rückkehr” erzählt über Recherche und Umgang mit NS & Faschismus in der eigenen Familiengeschichte anhand des Juliputsch 1934 in Österreich. Wie stehen das Persönliche und das große Ganze in Zusammenhang? Warum blickt man zurück? Und welche Abkehr braucht es, um voranzukommen? 19:00, im @blaettern_literaturbuero freu mich

Here you can see 1) me running away from receiving the prize for being selected @container_25 pick and 2) the respective contribution to the Open Call “Die Wolfsberger Idylle stören. Gedenken Kommentieren — Erinnern Initieren”. Thanks, peeps.

Continuing our path of non-standardized formats, this leporello called »Make Books« fits right in. It showcases all the binding options available both directly in-house and thru print shop(s) we work together with for the books we make for (and with) ~~you~~ 📖🫵 Designed & illustrated by @leasbeth and printed on a single 840x148mm sheet of Fedrigoni Arena Natural Rough 200g paper in 4 passes with a seamless pattern on the outside in Blue and lots of content on the inside in Black. Available thru our webshop or just pick one up for free if you’re interested at our Open Studio dates!

Rare footage of ✨The Drawing Club ✨ @the.drawingclub taking place every two weeks at Risofort, hosted by Camila @camilasamachado & Lisi @leasbeth It goes down like this: Warm ups that make you not-think, a prompt to follow (or not), funky materials and formats, some snacks, music, and a drink, if you feel like it. Everything else you will have to see for yourself. 🦩 Come join (eg tonight!) ⏩ risofort.press/workshops

*all gone* 💫FREE POSTERS💫on the occasion of March 8th, day of feminist struggle/international day of women* workers. This year we made a quick series, together creating moments of the sombre, the archival, the minimalist, and the speculative. Contributions by Sophia (@good_at_sitting ), Ina (@ina_randale ), Lisi (@leasbeth ), and Hannah (@hannah.calling ), who also designed the typo framework. These posters thematicise feminist empowernment as empowerment to be strong because we have to be—the fact that women* and everyone feminized are prone to be sexually harassed is not a sign of their weakness (as the constant reminder to protect and defend and stand up for yourself suggests) but a sign of the prevailing of patriarchy. For that to finally change, we must find a way to stop gendered violence from being reproduced through societal structures, again and again. We might be tired and everything is unnecessarily shitty, but nevertheless „she“, in the sense of us all, refusing to be whatever being a woman was meant to be by patriarchal invention, persisted. As such looking back is also to look forward: things will be different, again, an better, again. Meanwhile, solidarity to people living in countries run by fascists, such as the US (where, incidentally, the president is also accused of rape in at least one incident), or Italy (just one example of why we don’t need girl bosses), or the right-wing mainstream in most parts of Europe. ✊ Heraus zum 8. März, celebrating feminisms, all the more and merrier! Come pick up your posters on Thursday, 6th of March, during Risofort Open Studio 3:30–7pm or order them (for postage) through the shop (link in bio).

How to disappear partially Pair of (french seamed patchworked bauhaus-ified Ikea) curtains (or ikea-fied Bauhaus, if you think about it). Each 150x135cm #RisofortRaus

Wonky fonty pantry drape, initially conceived to hide the Deutsche Post box loot stashed @risofort , it can also serve as a banner at your local self publishing festival. @indiemags 🌷⚡Featuring lino print patch by floral master @rumizsofi and a screen printed @sofortbooks patch Approx 120x200cm (@leona.aber for scale)

Clay ants for my homie D. Based on a (regularly stolen) sculpture by Peter Schröder at Elbchaussee Hamburg, referencing a poem by Joachim Ringelnatz called Die Ameisen. HBD! 🐜🐻

This year’s poster-text-collage in celebration of 8th of March, International Women*‘s Workers Day aka Day of feminist struggle, looks at many things at once, since it’s becoming obvious that a better world would need to see change in many—if not all—spheres of life: the way we work, the way we provide ourselves with food and care, the way we deal with conflict, spend or generate energy, tell stories, spend our time; the way in which we consider ourselves human. Ursula K LeGuin’s text „Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction“ (1986) somehow manages to address all of this, bringing together literature, technology, and care work through reflections on her own Sci-Fi writings. Exploring the daunting alienation women* experience in society, she also looks at ways to recapture a sense of belonging - in the most poetic, reasonable and angry, aging feminist manner you could wish for. The quote by this literary icon is combined with an illustration by an unknown artist. If anything, LeGuin teaches us to attune to exactly those: the lesser known, the vague, the complicated, the yet nameless. The illustration was published in 1980 in Scarlet Women #11, a UK based printed newsletter looking at the interrelation between feminism and socialism. A (by now traditional) collage poster concept by @leasbeth Posters up for grabs for free at the studio on 29th of February and 7th of March during Open Studio, 15:30-19:00, or via our webshop (free excl. shipping) Edition of 70 Printed in Fluo Yellow, Cornflower & Blue on Munken Print Cream 15 115g Solange der Vorrat reicht!