nicole woischwill was born in East Berlin in 1976. After graduating from high school she
trained for three years at a German private School of Design and finished as a state-accredited
photographer in 2000. During this time she attended seminars by Sibylle Bergemann, which
focused on fashion photography. After that, she worked as photo assistant for the
photographers Matthias Leupold in Berlin and Ernst Alexander in Cologne. Between 2000 and
2002 she worked in a number of advertising agencies, coordinating art buying, concept and
design campaigns. In 2005 she co-founded the artist group „position4“. Since 2000 she has
also been working in Berlin as a freelance photographer, specialising in fashion, portrait and
experimental photography. As a masters student of the eminent Professor Arno Fischer, he
supported her artistic activities from 2007 up until 2011 in the "Ostkreuzschule". Directly
thereafter she attended a seminar by Werner Mahler in the same school between October 2011
and February 2012. In 2010 she co-founded the Gallery of Contemporary Photography
„exp12 . Exposure twelve“ in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.