Gestetner | Stencil machine workshop

Design and print your own postcards and contribute to our collective La Grazieria zine with ‘Stencil King’ Erwin Blok, who’ll install 3 of his classic Gestetner stencil duplicators in PrintRoom. We work with templates developed by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva especially for this occasion.

Gestetner is a stencil duplicator, created back in 1879. With a stencil duplicator each color is printed separately. Learn about the esthetics of the Gestetner stencil duplicator and the possibilities that they offer using traditional wax membranes, tools and aids developed for this purpose.

Erwin Blok collects Gestetner stencil machines, restores them and works with them extensively. With great pleasure he experiments with the possibilities of the beautiful devices. Blok gives workshops all over the world to artists, graphic designers and other interested parties.

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva works between fine art and illustration. She works both as an editorial, commercial illustrator for publishing houses around the world, and as an independent artist for galleries and museums. PrintRoom published several artist publications with Masha in the past years.

Ongoing with demonstrations at 20:15 and 22:15