Joram Schön’s installation in the window space of Hua International is composed of various miniature rooms, each the size of a shoebox. Titled Cabin Cluster, these diverse interiors collectively form a comprehensive portrait of the shops and spaces that shape daily life in a neighborhood like Berlin-Schöneberg. Whether a gym, sauna, solarium, snack bar, café, video store, jeweler, or sex shop—Cabin Cluster bears witness to the versatility and vitality of a district in transition. Through a playful handling of perspective and scale, and the use of simple materials, this graphic-sculptural work preserves the artist's subjective view of urban life—an artistic cartography.
Joram Schön (b. 1991 in Berlin) lives and works between Berlin and Cologne. He studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and holds an MA in Art and Film from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). His practice—spanning drawing, installation, painting, and film—merges observations of nature and the urban sphere, investigating the shifts within urban space to articulate critical inquiries into topography, architecture, and landscape. Parallel to his visual work, Schön develops essayistic documentaries that interweave personal narratives with historical resonance and collective memory.
His work has recently been presented in solo exhibitions at Lore Deutz (Cologne), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), and Das Gericht (Frankfurt). Recent group presentations include O-Town House (Los Angeles), Studio Hanniball (Berlin), and Galerie Anton Janizewski / Villa Grisebach (Berlin). In 2024, he was a Fellow at Villa Aurora, where he realized a mural and developed parts of his first feature-length essay film. His publication Mental Storage originated from the site-specific wall work created during the residency.
