Nicole Wermers: Women Between Buildings

The Kunstverein in Hamburg is delighted to present the solo exhibition by Nicole Wermers. We cordially invite you to our opening on March 2, 7pm.

With Women Between Buildings, the Kunstverein in Hamburg presents the first survey exhibition of Nicole Wermers (*1971 in Emsdetten, lives and works in London). The artist studied at the HFBK Hamburg under Sigmar Polke and Claus Böhmler and at Central St. Martins College in London. Wermers’ predominantly sculptural practice combines an engagement with urban space and its sociopolitical, narrative and historical aspects with reflections on the formal language of modernism and her own role as an artist working in a big city. Her reference system consists of visible and invisible structures of public space and their manifestations within architecture, materials and designed objects. For the exhibition Wermers assumes the perspective of a flâneuse when casting hers (and our) gaze to urban everyday life, in which volumes, materials, borders and architectural hierarchies are permanently renegotiated. The show features pieces from the past ten years, including Untitled Chairs of the exhibition Infrastruktur which was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015, as well as new sculptures created especially for the show Hamburg.

A comprehensive publication on the exhibition with texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Kerstin Stakemeier and David Bussel will be published in cooperation with Compagnia and Motto Books.

The exhibition is made possible by the kind support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.