Nicole Wermers (b. 1971, Emsdetten, Germany) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hamburg and received an MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is the 2024 recipient of the Helmut Kraft Foundation Prize for Fine Arts and has previously been awarded the Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome. In 2015, Wermers was nominated for the Turner Prize. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and comissions at Tate Britain, London; Aspen Art Museum, CO; The Common Guild, Glasgow; Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland; Kunstverein Hamburg; Germany; Villa Massimo German Academy, Rome; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Camden Arts Centre, London; and Secession, Vienna, among others. In 2025, she will enjoy a solo exhibition at St Carthage Hall/ Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland. Her work is in the permanent collections of Tate, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt; Orange County Museum of Art, CA; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Stiftung Kunsthalle, Bern; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin, Government Art Collection, London; and the British Council Collection, London among others. Her public sculpture Emscher Folly is permanently installed as part of the Emscher Kunstweg (Emscher River Art Trail), Dusiburg, Germany. Since 2017 she has been professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Wermers lives and works in London and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Herald St, London; Tanya Bonakdar, New York and Los Angeles; and Produzentengalerie Hamburg.