Eliza Apperly is a Berlin-based writer, editor, and producer, with a focus on arts, culture, politics, and feminism.

As a journalist, Eliza has reported for The Guardian, The Atlantic, BBC, Reuters, and The Art Newspaper. She also contributes regular features to Thames & Hudson. 

As an editor, Eliza spent four years at Taschen, where she managed all online editorial as well as special project publications, most particularly The Earth and I, an anthology for the Anthropocene conceived with Gaia theorist, James Lovelock. Formerly, Eliza was also Commissioning Editor for The Inkling, a long form culture website and Researcher at The Week, a political weekly. She has conducted a number of artist interviews including with Christo, Carmen Herrera, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Lindbergh, and Klaus Voormann.

Alongside her writing and journalism, Eliza is an accomplished producer and cultural programmer. She co-launched and still manages the Berlin program of Intelligence Squared, an acclaimed forum for public talks and debate, with a current focus on European cohesion. She launched and produced the Taschen podcast and has produced and researched several short films for Taschen, as well as a YouTube series for Google Arts & Culture, working with 1stAveMachine. Eliza also inaugurated and co-managed the Berlin edition of the global Art + Feminism campaign, improving Wikipedia coverage of cis and transgender women.

Eliza is fluent in German, Italian and French. As a translator, she recently translated the correspondence of Luisa Casati and Gabriele d’Annunzio for Judith Mackrell’s The Unfinished Palazzo, as well as exhibition and catalogue materials for various cultural institutions including the Staastsmuseen von Berlin and Pinakotheken im Kunstareal. Eliza also provides editorial consultancy for a range of art, design, and architecture clients.

Eliza has a first-class BA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University and an MA, with distinction, in art history from the Courtauld Institute. She is the recipient of the University of Cambridge Italian Prize and Robert Dobson Languages Prize, Emmanuel College Saxelby Scholarship, and Courtauld Institute Stavros Niarchos Scholarship.