Sculpture (Ceramics and Glass)

Nicole Wermers is a sculptor focusing on the public realm and its interactions with the (female) body. She examines hierarchies of materials and objects within shared spaces and draws attention to the overlooked gestures and rituals we perform within the given infrastructure of the urban environment.

She has had solo exhibitions and commissions at The Common Guild, Glasgow; Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus; Emscher Kunst/ Urbane Künste Ruhr, Duisburg; Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg; Tate Britain, London; Villa Massimo/ German Academy, Rome; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Aspen Art Museum, CO; Camden Arts Centre, London and Secession, Vienna among others. Her work was included in the 6th Athens Biennale and the 33rd Biennale of Graphic Arts in Lublijana as well as in group shows at Tank Shanghai, Hayward Gallery, London, Tate Britain, London; Kunsthalle Bern; Hamburger Bahnhof/ Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Rome; MUDAM Luxemburg; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, City of Bonn and Galerie der Gegenwart / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg among many others.

2015 she was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2012 a recipient of the Rome Prize of the German Academy/ Villa Massimo in Rome in 2012. Her work is in the collections of Tate, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; MMK Frankfurt; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana; Kunsthalle Hamburg/ Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg; Stiftung Kunsthalle, Bern, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin, Government Art Collection, London, UK and the British Council Collection, London among others.

Nicole Wermers has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2017.