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In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and psychological aspects. Combining references to art history with modern surfaces and materials, the artist explores fine art aesthetics within the design of daily life, specifically the ways it has been appropriated by consumer culture. Gates resembling security devices at the exit of department stores or sculptures that double as standing ashtrays are among the many everyday, urban objects and structures referenced in her work, adapted to reflect both the strategies and effects of design, advertising and architecture on contemporary life.

Born in 1971 in Emsdetten, Germany, Wermers is currently based in London. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hamburg (Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg) from 1991-1997 and received an MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 1999. She has participated in residencies at Delfina Studio Trust in London (2004) and Camden Arts Centre in London (2005), and most recently received a fellowship at Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome (2012).

In 2013, Wermers conceived a site-specific commission work for the redesigned cafe and members room at Tate Britain in London. Other significant solo exhibitions include Hôtel Biron at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf (2011), Masse und Auflösung at Aspen Art Museum in Colorado (2007), Earring at Camden Arts Centre in London (2006), and Chemie at Secession in Vienna (2004). Her work was also included in Crazy House at Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2012), Perspectives On Collage at the Photographers Gallery in London (2012) and in the Hayward Gallery’s group exhibition, The New Décor, which traveled to The Garage Centre in Moscow, Russia in 2010-2011.

The artist’s sculptures, photographs and works on paper can be found in the permanent collections of Tate Britain in London, Galerie der Gegenwart/ Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen, Germany, and as part of the DGZ Bank Collection in Düsseldorf, among others.
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source: showstudio

Nicole Wermers is an artist living and working between Hamburg and London. Born in 1971 in Emsdetten, Germany, she studied first at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Hamburg, and went on to complete an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, in 1999. Wermers has exhibited widely, particularly across Europe and participated in year-long residency at Delfina studio, London in 2004. Her artistic practice encapsulates both sculpture and collage, or a fusion of the two processes in three-dimensional collage. ‘In her collages and sculptures Nicole Wermers relocates the attractions and surfaces of a contemporary consumer culture in architectural structures that hint at the interplay of seduction and control’.