Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk was born in Rotterdam in 1988 and lives and works in London and Rotterdam. He holds a BA in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Utrecht, and an MA in Curating from the London Metropolitan University, delivered in conjunction with the Whitechapel Gallery. He has worked at a number of institutions including SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam) and DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation). Recent exhibition projects include Artists of the No (Projektraum Viktor Bucher) in Vienna; Reading Complex (Seventeen Gallery/The Government Art Collection/The Showroom) in London; Swedenborg Epic, in London; as well as The Event of Reality Applied Knowledge / Fiction.