Deborah Schamoni

Deborah Schamoni presents a curated dialogue between Maria VMier and Nicole Wermers—two artists whose practices diverge formally yet converge through subversive strategies grounded in feminist positions.

Nicole Wermers is among the most influential sculptors of her generation. Her work operates through fragile, precisely articulated disruptions that probe contemporary sculpture. Positioned between fine and applied art, her sculptures expose social and aesthetic codes embedded in everyday objects and hierarchies of materials.

Maria VMier’s large-scale drawings push abstraction to its limits. Her spectral mark-making oscillates between the raw and the delicate, evoking bodies in perpetual motion. Through an insistently physical approach, VMier transforms abstraction into a site for examining embodied knowledge, desire, and socio-political relations from a xenofeminist perspective.

The presentation brings together new works by both artists. Wermers’ Three Fainters on Posh Crisps—assemblages of reclining clay figures placed on luxury snack packaging—are installed in front of a ten-meter-long drawing by VMier, unfolding smoky black surfaces intersected by luminous blue curves.The extreme contrast between the two bodies of work intensifies their spatial presence.The installation requires a single ten-meter wall. The proposal is also suitable as special project. In parallel, and in a separate space, we propose a presentation by Berlin-based designer and artist Katharina Ruhm.