Ilke Gers

For the grand summer opening on June 21 (10:00-22:00), Ilke Gers will present a site-wide ground drawing that connects the partners at C-mine. The artwork C-mine 3600 Genk was developed during her residency as a co-production with C-mine.

Ilke Gers (°1981, NZ) is a visual artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand, based in Rotterdam. She makes situation-specific installations and works with text, drawing and publishing to explore the relationship between the body, movement and language. Through open-ended processes that are contingent on spatial conditions, physical interaction and time, her work intervenes in the normative mechanisms of communication and circulation to destabilise the assumed neutral and fixed nature of the built environment, language forms and behavioural codes.

Recent solo presentations include Vleeshal, Middelburg (2023), 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).