Risodence
VENUE: Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge, Luxembourg
Hannes Brischke, artist in résidence – RISODENCE
In the framework of the Luxembourg Design Festival 2025 organised by Design Luxembourg
Risography is a fast-printing technique, originally designed to improve office efficiency. Similar to mechanical screen printing, it uses a master stencil and plant-based inks that are inexpensive, though slow to dry and sometimes erasable—even years later. Its drum-based automated process enables large print runs but also causes frequent misregistration, which has become a celebrated aesthetic hallmark of the medium.
It’s precisely within these imperfections that risography’s creative potential comes alive. Accidents happen, colors blend in unpredictable ways, and new visual languages emerge. A risograph doesn’t merely print—it responds. Working with it can test your patience but it’s definitely worth it.
Despite its quirks, risography offers artists, illustrators, and designers a unique sense of freedom. Risograph printing is first and foremost about passion. It bridges the gap between thinking, making, and producing—where the process becomes as expressive as the result.
For all these reasons, Casino Display has embarked on exploring this technique. As Casino Display is a project and research-based space, it is very important that projects be entirely developed and produced on spot and in-house.
So, in 2024, we designed a new format for short residencies—Risodence. These one-week residencies provide artists, graphic designers, and illustrators with the opportunity to experiment with the medium and engage in research that pushes the boundaries of their creative practices.
Hannes Brischke has been invited as artist in residence for the Risodence in the framework of the Luxembourg Design Festival 2025. Since 2021, he has worked as a freelancer in art and culture, and in 2023 was appointed as a teacher in Communication Design at HBKsaar in Saarbrücken. Brischke will not only be able to “riso-experiment” but also to showcase other projects he has realized so far.
While exploring the City of Luxembourg through the eyes of a tourist, he builds an archive from found images and souvenirs as part of his project. In an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be a contemporary tourist, torn between collective perceptions of foreign countries and the search for authentic experiences, Brischke reproduces and rearranges letters, forms, and materials he encounters, compiling them into a new collection of artifacts.
RETROSPECTIVE
The inaugural edition of the Risodence took place in December 2024. Alongside Hannes Brischke’s Risodence, we are also showcasing the works that have been created since its inception.
Zohra Mrad
Zohra Mrad is a multidisciplinary Tunisian-Luxembourgish artist and designer based in Luxembourg. They create immersive, interactive, and generative experiences that foster dialogue between human perception and technology, encouraging audiences to shift from passive observers to active creators. Their approach is collaborative, circular, and inclusive. Their work draws inspiration from kinesthesia, healing, chaos, and the experimental and/or extreme music scene, investigating the way such experiences could help us live (or survive) the world around us. They are the co-founder of the VIVID ECHOES artist residencies in Luxembourg, the magazine foehn, and the collectives Sirr al-’Asrâr, Zolei, B-Saad. They are also an active member of Mooja and Grave Erreur.
Alexandra Uppman
Alexandra Uppman is a Luxembourg-based, Swedish-speaking artist with Luxembourgish and Finnish origins. She graduated from the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels. Her artistic practice is inspired by the forest as a space that connects her various origins and serves as a starting point for reflections on belonging and home. Her work is influenced by the metal music culture and explores the emotional and symbolic links between nature and identity. She works primarily with oil-based charcoal drawings and with sculpture, while also exploring ways to incorporate immersive and atmospheric elements into her work.
Image © Hannes Brischke / Photo: Tim Jungmann