born Vriezenveen (NL), 1975
nationality NL

www.nicolinetimmer.nl
 
'16 nearly identical drawers', 2012 '16 nearly identical drawers', 2012

finding a form for vulnerability is currently at the core of her practice.
she believes that any connection between divergent experience worlds, between an I and a you, depends not on sharing a content or a meaning, but on the very particularity of gestures – on a form of reaching: reaching for something, even without yet having a clear understanding of how to reach it, perhaps not even knowing for certain it is there, but by reaching alone presuming its presence.

CURRICULUM VITAE
 
Education
2006-2011
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, DOGtime Fine Arts
2004-2008
PhD Comparative Literature, Institute for History and Culture, University of Utrecht
2004
Propedeuse Psychology, University of Amsterdam (with honor)
1998-2002
Bachelor and Master Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam (with honor)
 
Residencies
2012 
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

Fellowships and stipends
2012
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, NL, Van Eck-Vollgraff Fonds/Fonds Kruitlaan

Exhibitions
2011 
Pandora’s box, Old Church, Amsterdam
2011  
End Exam Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2010 
OK, Old Church, Amsterdam
2009 
First we take Manhattan…, Basisburo, Amsterdam
 
Prizes and (book) publications
2011 
The picture hangs on the wall like a rifle or a hat [catalogue of work/re-presentation of 10 works], publication issued by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, printed by SSP
2011 
Writer of the book publication for the Prix de Rome 2011 Visual Arts; NAi Publishers
2010 
Prijs voor de Jonge Kunstkritiek (Prize for Young Art Critics); ‘Basisprijs’, category Essay; organized by de Appel, Witte de With and Fonds BKVB; Selected to write the jury’s report of the Prix de Rome
2010 
Publication of dissertation, Do You Feel It Too? The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction At The Turn of the Millennium, by Rodopi; Amsterdam/New York
2009 
Illustrations for De baard van Wennemars (by Rob van Erkelens, published by De Groene Amsterdammer)
2000 onwards
Essays and reviews on literature, art, culture published in i.e. De Groene Amsterdammer, Armada, De Reactor, Z, Pampus
 
Artist's books
2011 
The picture hangs on the wall like a rifle or a hat [see book publications]
2011 
Handelingen [Choreographies of obsessive-compulsive acts]
2010 
the visual room [philosophical narrative]
2009 
zachter, geluidloos, wit (of blauw) [narrative sculptures]
2009 
1melk, 3zebra, 1tafeltennisnet & 19sonnet, 1vernietiger, 3vuil [index books]
2009 
You are also thinking this up [drawings]
2008 
The person who… [series of photo books]
2005 
Een nogal rood jasje [novella]
 
Interviews
2011 
Volkskrant (9 July)
2010 
OOG-Radio (4 Oct.)
 
Lectures
2010 
‘Do You Feel It Too?’ (Perdu, Amsterdam)
2010 
‘Something urgent and human’ (University of Groningen)
2009 
‘Hup de elite’ (Perdu)
2005 
‘A new sense of self: In search of a post-postmodern subjectivity’ (Lancaster University, UK)
2005 
A new perspective on engagement and recent developments in the arts (discussion panel)
2002 
‘What comes after Postmodernism?’
 
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