Nicoline van Harskamp was born in the Netherlands in 1975 and studied at the Koninklijke Akademie van Kunsten in The Hague, Chelsea College in London, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Her performative works have been presented live at Steirischer Herbst (Graz), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Tate Modern (London), KunstWerke (Berlin), Melly CCA (Rotterdam), the New Museum (New York), Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), Archive Kabinett (Berlin), at Tenderpixel (London), at the Kaaitheater (Brussels), and at Ruhr Ding (Oberhausen). 
Nicoline van Harskamp's solo exhibitions have been shown at the Project Art Centre, Dublin, at the Kunsthalle Münster, at the BAK Utrecht, at the C3A, Cordoba, and at the Kunstraum London. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven), Frac Lorraine (Metz), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Clark House (Mumbai), Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), Ujadovski Castle – Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), MUAC (Mexico City), the Serralves Museum (Porto), Waterside Contemporary (London), Manifesta 9 (Genk), and Performa 11 (New York), as well as the biennials in Sydney, Gothenburg, Taipei, Moscow, Limerick, Bucharest, and Shanghai.

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Nicoline van Harskamp works with video, installation, and scripted live performance. Her projects can take several years to complete, and are exhibited in various stages of the process.

In Yours in Solidarity (2010 – 2013) she tells histories from the global anarchist movement after 1989, starting from a letter archive. In the series Englishes (2014 – 2016), she uses varieties of internationally-spoken English to propose a future shaped by the ubiquity and constant evolution of that language. The works PDGN (2016) and Some Name Some Noun Simply (2017) propose what such a spoken vehicular language might sound like in the future. My Name is Language/Mein Name ist Sprache (2018 – 2019) considers the translation and creolisation of personal names in multilingual societies. Englishes Mooc (2019 and ongoing) is an art project in the form of a Massive Online Open Course.

The students of the performative art class work in very different ways and media but share an interest in performativity in the broadest sense. Half of their spaces and resources are dedicated to studio practice, and half to programmed activities in the class' project area. They take from the tradition of performance art not only the media of body, voice, movement and time, but also the focus on cross-disciplinarity and solidarity. Collaborative practice is supported and valued as much as individual practice. Throughout the year they organize projects that allow (but do not oblige) students to research a specific methodology through the production of a work.

In Performance Room (since 2016), students each have one week to develop a performative work for the lens of a single camera. In Actors and Directors (2018), students instruct a professional actor in a work of their own, and then evaluate and adapt their directing skills with them. In 2019 the class focusses on scripting.

Guests that joined the colloquium since 2016 include the artists Mikhail Karikis, Roi Alter, Ahmet Ö?üt and Richard John Jones; the scholars Avishek Ganguly (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence) and Aneta Rostowska (Akademie der Kulturen der Welt); and the performers Monica Reyes, Serge Fouha and Kenneth Phillip George.

Some works of the class can be seen on vimeo:

Website of the class