Kiosk Rotterdam

Philippa Driest is an artist and founder of KIOSK Rotterdam. Her practices revolve around topics of maintenance and distribution. In her work she explores different sites of contamination and leakage through publishing, performance and multi-media research installations. KIOSK Rotterdam is a bookshop, (riso) print workshop and Multi Tool Press. The selection hosts radical/critical theory, fiction, poetry and self-publishing practices.

The Multi Tool Press is a publishing practice that produces zines, publications, posters, pamphlets and flyers on the MH9350E (previously GR3710) Risograph printer. The press works through the act of leaking resources and knowledge, redistributing funds from bookselling and by repurposes leftover materials from other print jobs. It’s driven by collaboration and the connections built through KIOSK.

Monuments Unseen, 2025 by Philippa Driest

“The work Monuments Unseen is a physical, political and historical exploration of space. On invitation by curator Wan Ing Que to become an anarchivist of the work “Rats on the Run” by United Fried Front at Roodkapje, I used textiles referring to the material of collective resistance in the form of banners and balaclavas. I collected visual material sampling and remixing imagery found in different archives. Inspired by the speeches of Sunshine and Mustapha Eaisaouiyen in the film “Rats on the Run”, I attempt through collage and fabric, to challenge the dominant narrative that is reinforced by statues, buildings, and social monuments. It explores the processes of social justice movements that infiltrate, reshape, and reclaim what has been taken.”