Nicole L’Huillier (b. 1985) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Santiago, Chile. Her practice centers on exploring sounds and vibrations as construction materials to delve into questions of agency, identity, collectivity, and the activation of a vibrational imagination. Her work materializes through installations, sonic/vibrational sculptures, custom-made (listening and/or sounding) apparatuses, performances, experimental compositions, membranal poems, and writing. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT (2022). Her work has been shown at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), 14a Bienal do Mercosul (2025), 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Tabakalera Donostia (2025), Kunsthalle Bern (2024), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2023), ifa-Gallery Stuttgart (2023), Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022), transmediale, Berlin (2022), Ars Electronica, Linz (2022, 2019, 2018), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg (2021), and 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), among others.

Çağla Ilk is a curator and the designated artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, effective from the 2026/27 season. In her work, she combines theater, contemporary art, and sound practices into a transdisciplinary curatorial approach. She views voice, noise, and acoustic spaces as central dramaturgical elements through which social and political issues can be made tangible. Dramaturgy functions here as a curatorial method that transforms different disciplines into fluid, performative constellations. Instead of static formats, Ilk develops theatrical-installative settings in which sound acts as a structuring and transformative element.

Ilk studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and Mimar Sinan University Istanbul. From 2020 to 2025, she was director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, which she co-directed with Misal Adnan Yıldız until June 2024, where she further developed sound, space, and exhibition as intertwined forms of experience.

In March 2023, Çağla Ilk was appointed curator of the German contribution to the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Under the title Thresholds, she curated the German Pavilion with contributions from Michael Akstaller, Yael Bartana, Robert Lippok, Nicole L’Huillier, Ersan Mondtag, and Jan St. Werner – a project that engaged in a unique way with acoustic spaces, resonance, and the political dimensions of sound.