April Gertler

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Berlin, Germany

Year at Millay: 2000

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Two-Year Basic Funding (Zweijährige Basisförderung), Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2023–2025); Artist-in-Residence, KUKUK, Miteinander Reden Projekte, Remlingen, Germany (2023); Grant Recipient, Stipend for Project Spaces, Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2022); Grant Recipient, Workshop Development Grant, Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2022); Grant Recipient, Research Grant, Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2021); Grant Recipient, Faculty Course Development Grant, Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2021); Grant Recipient, Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR, Bonn, Germany (2021, 2020); Artist-in-Residence, AGA LAB, Artist in Residence, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2020); Grant Recipient, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Grant, Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2018); Prize Winner, Project Space and Project Initiative Prize, Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2018, 2015); Grant Recipient, Research Grant, Department of Culture, Berlin, Germany (2016); Artist-in-Residence, The Guesthouse Project, Cork, Ireland (2011); Artist-in-Residence, l’ entreprise culturelle, Paris, France (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Encounters of Young International Photography, Niort, France (2007, 2005).

Website: http://aprilgertler.com

Photo by Carina Hedlund

April Gertler has been living and working in Berlin, Germany since 2005. Her work is rooted in social practices and has been realized in a variety of formats including; an ongoing lecture performance series (TAKE THE CAKE), podcasts, artist walks, self-published books/zines, and cultural events using self-initiated project spaces as platforms and a hybrid artist residency (PICTURE BERLIN, started in 2010).

Some ongoing projects include: IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (since 2013); an artist walk initiated in Berlin; SONNTAG, a nomadic project space initiative started in 2012 with Adrian Schiesser, offering an invited artist a platform to show their work in a private apartment on a Sunday afternoon. TAKE THE CAKE (since 2014); is both a lecture/baking performance and a podcast, concentrating on an in-depth analysis of one cake through the history of its ingredients using a feminist, postcolonial perspective. The most recent project, WIRWIR, started in 2020 with Adrian Schiesser, is based in Berlin-Neukölln. WIRWIR is a project space concentrating on connecting to the immediate neighborhood through a diversity of events, exhibitions, discussions, presentations and walks.