Deborah Schamoni

Max Mayer and Deborah Schamoni participate in the Collaborations sector at Art Cologne 2024, each showing one position. The featured artists—the duo Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, and painter Elizabeth Ravn—explore the essential dynamics of Berlin, reflecting the city’s ever-evolving socio-political landscape on both personal and political levels. Their work converges in its investigation of the subtle effects of Berlin’s ongoing gentrification, from its impact on visual culture and architecture to the intimate social relationships of its inhabitants. 

For Elizabeth Ravn painting is about the notions of time and of change, of confronting the everyday and its simultaneous conscious and unconscious associations. Since 2017, when the artist moved to Berlin from her hometown of New York City, she has painted intimate scenes of those close to her—including her partner, friends, and collaborators in Berlin—in domestic and architectural spaces. Her expertly executed, defined strokes and saturated yet realistic color pallets render fleeting impressions of the world as it exists from her perspective, offering moments frozen in time. In addition to her painting practice, she participates in various collaborative initiatives that focus on the communal aspect and exchange between artists. 

Elizabeth Ravn (b.1994 in Brooklyn, NY) received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. She lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions include die raum, Berlin (2024); Deborah Schamoni (2023); SOX, Berlin (2023); KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); Bungalow, Berlin (2022); Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin (2021); Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, (2021); and Pina, Vienna (2019).