Colorama

Colorama is a small press and risoprinting-studio based in Berlin. You can buy our publications in our studio - write us an email to get in touch.

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Colorama is a small Art Press and Risoprinting studio based in Berlin run by Johanna Maierski since 2015. Our publications and exhibitions present contemporary artists in the field of experimental comics and artists’ books, as well as projects that explore speculative forms of narration, collective narration and alternative knowledge production.

11/09/2026

STUDIO LUNCH

Recipes for a creative collective workday!

Design by

Coming soon!!

Psssst: there will be a pre-launch at .icecream on the 20st of September! With special COLORAMA flavours. More info in short.

10/09/2026

DEAR GIGI is here!

Each month, a physical letter is sent through the mail – containing thoughts and observations by different artists & writers.

Somewhere between correspondence and fragmented publications, the letters gather unfinished thoughts, obsessions, stories, references and images.

12 months, 12 letters.

Subscribe in 3-month periods and receive one letter in your mailbox each month. You can join at any point throughout the year and decide after three months whether you’d like to continue, pause or leave the correspondence there.

The drawing on the letter is by Ana Benaroya from her September letter. More details in short!

Upcoming contributions by
Ana Benaroya
sunny iyer
Sophie Florian leinhos
THE WHITE P**E
and many more

Subscribe from anywhere at coloramabooks.space

Published and printed by Colorama.
Designed and annotated by SM Studio ♡ೃ⁀➷ archive and Florian ∞ Emden

08/09/2026

STUDIO LUNCH

SM Studio ♡ೃ⁀➷ archive have been working overtime to get this new book done for the Printed Matter Art Book Fairs !

See some of the design process.

STUDIO LUNCH is a collection of recipes and stories from a creative or collective workday.
They are contributions from our studio (where we have a very serious 🫡 lunch practice) and from some of our dear friends and colleagues!

Expect a Master Chef Invention Test, Joghurt on everything, DJ Restes, electricity shortcuts, drop ramen and showstoppers.

Coming very 🔜

04/09/2026

COLORAMA Production Sessions!!
Coming up 10-11th of September
and 15-16th of October

Less emails, more printing and binding!

From now on, we’re grouping smaller print projects into our monthly Production Sessions: two days each month dedicated entirely to producing your posters, zines, small publications and editions.

Instead of coordinating lots of small productions individually, we collect them into these concentrated sessions — giving us more time for printing and making, while keeping smaller productions affordable.

How it works: Book one of the limited Production Session slots in advance to secure your place. Once booked, your production is guaranteed for that session. You send us your print-ready files and final specifications beforehand, and we prepare everything for the production days. You can leave the printing and binding to us, or join us in the studio during production and/ or do the binding yourself!

From now on, all smaller production projects at Colorama will be realised through these monthly sessions. Larger and more complex publications will continue to be planned individually.

You can find the available slots and price estimates via the link in bio.

03/09/2026

Highlighting —> A Place is the Space where the Body by Sophie Florian

You can find an article written about the publication in the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft written by Kat Köppert—>
‘Tradwives, Momfluencers,
Nostalgic simulations, critical identifications’

(Translated to English) “The work, which has also been published as a book, examines, among other things, nostalgia as a sentiment of digital image cultures in technofascism from a feminist perspective.”

Published and printed by Colorama, 12x18cm, 102 pages, edition of 750, Berlin 2025.
The cover image is a painting by Sofia Nogueira.  Part of the series 12x18 Living Loving Literaturing from the intertext.

31/08/2026

Volunteers Appreciation Post

At the beginning of August I made an Call to ask who would be up for helping with binding some Colorama publications during August and soooo many people wrote me (over 30!!!!)
We found a crew of 10 people who then continued to come in different days during the week and helped binding piles and piles of books! Some of our titles are bound by hand so the labour that goes into them sometimes slows down the process of finishing them immensely, especially when we have bigger public programming running parallel (or I am trying to have a little break).
I was super touched and also impressed, how funny, sweet, dedicated, precise and amazing this crew is! Booky, Alice, Alicja, Sally, Beps, Fran, Cristina, Vale, Juliana, Helen, my biggest heartfelt gratitude!!!! It was lovely to have you at the studio and to eat lunch together and to get to know you, learn tricks from you (especially looking at Booky Margoof and their infamous mirror trick) and I am looking forward to welcome you back to the studio

26/08/2026

The Yukiko x Colorama Design School is here!

We are very excited to share this special course with you. In the planning since over a year and now finally happening.

Develop your own publication across six sessions exploring editorial design, sequencing and typographic storytelling with Studio Yukiko and Colorama. The course concludes with a collaborative production weekend where participants print and bind their individual A4 12-page Riso-printed publication (edition of 25).

More details and course plan coming soon!
Ps: we will offer two discounted stipends for this course for low-income / unemployed individuals. More info on the application procedure also in short.

24/08/2026

Faustine!
Thank you for your cheeky smile and giggles, your hard work and beautiful ideas. We miss you here at the studio and wanted to give a big shoutout to you and your big project at the end - the workshop guide which you conceptualised and realised in the shortest amount of time at the end if your internship! (It will also get its own spotlight but for now that’s you!
Bisous and see you soon! 🌷🌷🌷

18/08/2026

This September we’re launching Dear Gigi, a new epistolary publishing series exploring correspondence, artistic friendships, mail art and the many ways conversations can become publications.

Every issue invites a different artist, writer or designer to contribute a piece of writing, an image, a conversation or another form of address. The letters will be designed and annotated by SM Studio ♡ೃ⁀➷ archive and Florian ∞ Emden

You will be able to subscribe to 3 months at a time to receive the letters in your mail box.

We’re incredibly excited to announce the first two contributors:
Ana Benaroya and sunny iyer .

More soon. ✉️

14/08/2026

🪡✂️💌✨the Membership Open Call is up!

The new membership cycle will start in October and run until March 2027!
Apply now to become a member at the COLORAMA Workshop and join our very sweet print-focused community.
Find all relevant info on the slides (please have a thorough read), on our website (learn / residencies / membership program) and apply through the link in bio!

We’re looking forward to meet you!

Adresse

Drontheimer Straße 6
Berlin
13359

Webseite

http://colorama.space/

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