We need pressure – every day!

We are Ellen Wagner & Axel Rössler and have been running the screen printing studio “Print now – Riot later” since 2014. Together, we have built up a small but excellent printing workshop in Tucson, Arizona. After five years in the dusty desert, we returned to our friends and family. In Maintal near Frankfurt, we were able to move into larger premises and realize our idea of large-format fabric printing. Suddenly, huge motifs and patterns were possible – brilliant!

After seven years of pottering about on our own in a remote industrial estate, we took another step forward at the end of 2025 and fulfilled a long-cherished dream.

A dream come true: the transparent workshop

In November 2025, we moved into new premises in the heart of Frankfurt. Right next to the Kleinmarkthalle, surrounded by numerous galleries, museums and little shops, we have found a new home with a huge shop window.

Not least because of our teaching work at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, we are constantly reminded of just how inspiring and exciting it is to exchange ideas with other creative people. Our new studio now brings everything together: on the one hand, it’s a small retail shop; on the other, we continue to take on commissions of all kinds, and large-format printing remains an option.

What makes it special, however, is that we’re offering workshops for the first time – after all, we’re constantly being asked for them. And at last we can shout “YES!”

The absolutely brilliant thing about the new premises is the large shop windows, which allow people to look over our shoulders whilst we’re working.

Fail we may, sail we must

We’ve spent the first half of 2026 doing a lot of renovation, planning, tinkering, moving things around and organising, and plenty is sure to change yet, but we’re finally back in business! Alongside our core concept of commissioned work, workshops and the shop, we also want to offer other artists space for exhibitions – and who knows how our ideas might develop from here.

We’ve christened our new home FLATLANDS – that was the name of our 2025 exhibition at ‘Der kleine Mann mit dem Blitz’ in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, and the name simply fits our favourite craft perfectly…