Nicole Donkers

Nicole Donkers is a visual artist from The Hague. In her art she looks for the issues, the sharpness’s, frictions and distortions on the topic of identity. Her youth in the Orient and Western adult life are sources of inspiration. Her work is not about her own identity, but more frequently and in general it questions how we as individuals design our identity, behave and impersonate ourselves in the virtual world and the analog one. The physical skin, being the warm tense border of a person and always the subject to manufacturability, is further inspiration. In the working periods in Indonesia and China Nicole made work for different projects, namely “feeling touched and the smell of plastics” (Indonesia), “how do you escape your skin” (China), "connect the dots, collected thoughts" (China/The Netherlands) and "where is home?" (China). Her work consists of ceramics, video installations, photography and 3D objects.