Ilke Gers is a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, based
in Rotterdam. She makes site-specific installations and works
with text, drawing and publishing to explore the relationship
between the body, movement and language.
Installations often take the form of ground works that are made
through movement and open-ended processes that are contingent
on spatial conditions, physical interaction and time. Intervening
in the normative mechanisms of communication and circulation,
her work destabilises the assumed neutral and fixed nature of the
built environment, language forms and behavioural codes.
TENT, Rotterdam (2022), the Hayward Gallery at Southbank
Centre, London (2021), LLS Paleis, Antwerp (2020), and NDSM
Werf, Amsterdam (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Into
Nature Outdoor Biennial, Drenthe (2023), Tabakalera, Donostia–
San Sebastian (2023), 019, Ghent (2022), and Decoratelier,
Brussels (2022).
She graduated with a Masters from the Werkplaats Typografie,
and was artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
(2014-15)
She has been a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art (the Hague),
and given lectures and workshops at ArtEZ University of the
Arts (Arnhem, Enschede), California College of the Arts (San,
Fransisco), National University of Arts (Bucharest), Whitecliffe
College of Art and Design (Auckland), and George Enescu
National University of Arts (Iasi).
Supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and CBK Rotterdam (Centre
for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
Contact: ilksgers@gmail.com