Maurice van Valen, founder
Maurice van Valen studied law in the Netherlands and in the United States and practiced law in Amsterdam, New York, and London before he founded a corporate law firm, Heron Legal, in the Netherlands. He co-owned a gallery for contemporary art in Amsterdam and Los Angeles in the 2000’s. Maurice van Valen started collecting art in his teenage years.
In the decades since, he built a rich and diverse collection of modern and contemporary art. His interest and motivation for his activities in the art world is driven by his contacts with artist, museums, institutions and kindred spirits. Over the last two decades, he has donated parts of his collection to many museums in the Netherlands, such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 2020, he founded April in Paris.
maurice@aprilinparisfinearts.com
Evi Vingerling, founder
Evi Vingerling is an artist, born in the Netherlands and brought up in Georgia, in the USA, Vingerling was educated at Georgia State University and the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, from which she received a BFA (1998) she enjoyed a period of residency at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam (2005-2006). She was accepted to the Wiels, Brussels Residency Program in 2011. Evi has exhibited regularly and has been a professor at several art academies in the Netherlands. Vingerling lived in New York in 2007- 2010 where she took part in several exhibitions and worked as the gallery manager for the Swiss Institute, a prominent art space in SoHo. She returned to the Netherlands and has remained there since.
She has also carried out commissions for, among others, the Government Buildings Agency in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam, and Club Laila, Palma de Mallorca. Her work has won and been nominated for several prizes, winning the Royal Prize for Painting in 2012. Her work is held in the collections of the major Dutch museums and numerous prominent public, corporate, and private collections across Europe. Vingerling is represented by Tegenboschvanvreden in Amsterdam and Galeria Fermay in Spain.
evi@aprilinparisfinearts.com