Collage Workshop | Fully Booked

Channel your creativity with this fun and crafty 3-hour workshop. Engage with the playful world of collage and discover new types of visual storytelling beyond traditional photography. This hands-on course introduces you to essential techniques, materials, and composition strategies.

With plenty of space to experiment, this workshop is designed to help you develop your creative voice in a relaxed and supportive setting. Along the way, you receive feedback and inspiration from both your instructor and fellow participants.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Explore the creative possibilities of collage-making
• Experiment with photography and image deconstruction
• Develop new approaches to visual storytelling and composition
• Learn methods for interpreting and discussing your own work
• Gain insight into influential collage and photography artists
• Engage with contemporary collage practices through exhibition viewing
• Receive feedback from both peers and the instructor

MATERIALS PROVIDED

• Cutting boards
• Glue
• Scissors
• Paper
• Magazines

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN

It is the perfect course for you if you are starting to develop your own creative practice or enjoy collaging.

ABOUT THE TEACHER

April Gertler (US/NL) has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. Her work is multi-disciplinary, rooted in social practices and has been realized in a variety of formats that have included; an ongoing lecture performance series, podcasts, artist walks, self-published books/zines, collages and cultural events using her self-initiated project spaces as platforms (SONNTAG, a casual
corridor and WIRWIR), a hybrid artist residency (PICTURE BERLIN 2010-2025) and a small press (WIRWIR PUBLISHES).
Ongoing projects include: IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (since 2013); a collaborative artist walk within Berlin using photography as point of departure; TAKE THE CAKE (since 2014); is both a lecture/baking performance concentrating on an in-depth analysis of one cake through the history of its
ingredients using a feminist, postcolonial lens; WIRWIR (since 2020) with Adrian Schiesser, in Berlin-Neukölln. WIRWIR is a not for profit artist run project space concentrating on connecting to the immediate neighbourhood through a diversity of events, exhibitions, discussions, readings, workshops, presentations, collage get togethers and walks.