Nicoline Timmer (1975, Vriezenveen, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam. She was awarded a PhD in Literary Theory by Utrecht University in 2008, and continued her education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, graduating in 2011. In 2012-2013 she was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam and in 2017-2018 resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work has been published in the catalogue Opéra Monde, la quête d’un art total, Centre Pompidou-Metz (2019), and shown (or heard) in group exhibitions at A Tale of a Tub, the Van Doesburg House in Meudon, and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. In 2019, her debut novel en toen aten we zeehond was published by Ambo|Anthos publishers. For her work she travelled to different places around the world, such as Ilulissat in Greenland, Sutherland in South Africa, the Thingvellir in Iceland, and in 2019 to a small island in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Her latest book mountain, mountain will be published on March 10, 2022, in a numbered edition of 80 copies.