KIOSK Rotterdam with Multi Tool Press at Nida, Summer 2025

Work with timber from the Curonian Spit forms the starting point of the Neringa Forest Architecture project and the Neringa Wood Works exhibition at VAA NAC, which unfold through a series of workshops conducted by the collective gemeinsam bauen wir neu throughout the summer. These workshops address questions of inclusion and access in construction and spatial practices while also opening reflections on the sources and origins of the material—ranging from infrastructure and land management to the geopolitical meanings of the forest and its possible futures. This perspective situates material practice within its wider social contexts, foregrounding the work of women and queer practitioners in technical fields and linking timber-based practices to experimental feminist approaches that reconfigure relations between knowledge, labour, and material.

Expanding on this engagement with the social politics of materials, the textile and print workshop at VAA NAC is imagined by KIOSK Rotterdam for one week as a collective publishing and printing studio. Within this setting, The Multi Tool Press introduces books, printing devices, and materials with a focus on feminist material practices. Deriving from the ongoing research of Philippa Driest on leakages as a feminist practice, the tools of leakage, correspondence, and distribution are exercised through experimental printmaking and publishing.

Participants take part in a collaborative and dialogical process where making, reading, and reflecting unfold together. Each afternoon, sessions combine experimental printmaking with collective study.