dreamr
dreamr
Luisanna González Quattrini
Charlotte Herzig
Alexandra Navratil
Caro Niederer
April Street
November 29, 2025 - January 24, 2026
Opening November 28, 2025
dreamr takes us on a voyage that invites reflection on our intricate relationship with the environment and our place in the world. The works on view by Luisanna González Quattrini, Charlotte Herzig, Alexandra Navratil, Caro Niederer and April Street offer delicate, symbolic, and surreal representations of envisioned landscapes and imaginative journeys—visions drawn from the distant past or imagined future—where eerie moments hide beneath vibrant, saturated colors. Nature becomes a screen, objects become vessels, and together they echo the full range of human emotion.
The works on view open up a visual cosmos in which reality and dreams merge and familiar forms become fleeting hints. The artists use the potential of the imaginary to translate inner states, memories, and diffuse longings into atmospheric images. They depict an imaginary, weightless world beyond the rational boundaries of everyday life. Colors and forms serve not only as aesthetic means, but also as carriers of subtle emotions that only gradually reveal themselves. The planes and objects found in the works are simultaneously still and in motion, making them both real and ephemeral. They are everyday and inconspicuous signs and forms that give us a glimpse of the possibilities of distant worlds.
As such, spaces are created that are both inviting and challenging: they appear familiar and foreign, radiant and disquieting, yet in their ambivalence reveal a profound exploration of human experiences between hope, loss, transformation, and new beginnings. Within this field of tension, dreamr unfolds a visual poetry that transports viewers into a world where the boundaries between inside and outside, present and possibility, seem to be suspended.
Luisanna González Quattrini’s paintings move between dream worlds and personal history, where innocence mingles with nostalgia and intuition quietly surpasses reason. In both her subjects and the materiality of her work, fluidity and movement shape each composition. She develops her themes through small paintings that function like visual notebooks—pieces she later revisits and expands into larger works—guided by a central interest in the flow of consciousness. Animals frequently inhabit her scenes, evoking a pre-civilizational bond with the environment. Her figures, too, reveal their own animality, finding themselves in relationships that exist beyond ordinary social norms. The constant presence of water invites viewers to drift into subconscious imagery, suggesting both the origins of life and the looming possibility of danger.
González Quattrini’s work balances delicately between dense, mountainous impasto and airy, fluid expanses, opening the way for symbolic interpretations that reflect an unrestrained relationship with the physical world as well as a profound understanding of painting’s foundations. It is a vision of a timeless realm that speaks to the truths of the present—truths that, beneath the shimmer of fresh color, quietly harbor unsettling strangeness.
González Quattrini was born in Lima (Peru) and lives and works in Basel. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Catolica in Lima, at the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence and at HEAD in Geneva.
Luisanna González Quattrini
Land, 2024
Oil on linen
30x40 cm / 11.81x15.75 inches
Luisanna González Quattrini
Emerger, 2018
Oil on linen
25x30 cm / 9.84x11.81 inches
Luisanna González Quattrini
Pause, 2018
Oil on canvas
24x30 cm / 9.45x11.81 inches
Charlotte Herzig’s work is portrayed as an exploration of delicacy, perception, and the vast diversity of sensory experience across human and non-human life. Rejecting ideological reductionism and rigid artistic binaries like figuration versus abstraction, her paintings invite viewers to acknowledge the limits of their own senses and to imagine the many unseen realities that shape the world. Through nuanced, fluid, expansive vegetal, cosmic murals, she evokes the complex, interconnected intelligence of natural systems while challenging human-centered assumptions about vision, colour, and meaning. Herzig’s style operates as a subtle political language—not by addressing explicit themes, but by cultivating atmospheres that reveal both human conflicts and the shared, fragile energies binding all living beings. Ultimately, her art proposes a collective, transformative space in which we might sense the world as a hybrid species, newly attuned to the delicate structures of life around us.
Herzig was born in Vevey and lives and works in Brussels. She studied at ECAL in Lausanne and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Charlotte Herzig
Trip Seater, 2025
Oil on canvas
100x70cm / 39.37×27.56 inches
Alexandra Navratil explores how humans perceive nature despite being blind to its inner workings, eventually to reveal the limits of our sensory and temporal perspective. By examining tools and scientific methods invented to observe and preserve natural phenomena Navratil highlights how human attempts to understand nature often coincide with practices that harm or erase it. Her works invite viewers to piece together fragmented stories of ecosystems and to confront the contradiction between our theoretical respect for natural conditions and our persistent drive to reshape them. Navratil proposes that art can restore connection by reintroducing narrative, empathy, and poetic insight—reminding us that, though we inflict wounds on the world, we also possess the capacity to heal them.
Navratil was born in Zürich and lives and works between Zürich and Amsterdam. She studied Fine Arts at Central St. Martins College and Goldsmiths College, both in London.
Alexandra Navratil
Lake, 2025
Oil on canvas
30x40 cm / 11-7/8x15-3/4 inches
Alexandra Navratil
Set 1 (Escapism), 2025
Oil on canvas
50x60 cm / 19.68x23.62 inches
Caro Niederer’s work is characterized by sensitive reflections on memory, everyday culture, and the power of images. Her works often start with personal snapshots—photos from her everyday life, family moments, or travels, which she then paints freely or sometimes transfers to other media. The psychedelic color scheme transports the viewer away from the temporal and local context, turning lived moments into scenes from a distant dream world. Niederer skillfully bridges the gap between private and public space, allowing us to experience our own moments personally.
Niederer was born in Zurich and still lives in the city on the Limmat.
Caro Niederer
Strand (Beach), 2024
Oil on canvas
100x70cm / 39.37×27.56 inches
April Street’s new series of small watercolors, Weather Patterns, features spontaneously painted landscapes with reworded weather reports written on each of them at the place and time of completion. These works merge the disembodied time of imagined worlds with the physical conditions surrounding the artist in each moment. Drawing inspiration from the idealized “World Landscapes” of the Flemish Renaissance, Street’s scenes float “in between” interior and exterior perceptions of time.
Her landscapes are full of movement and growth—strangely lit from within, vibrantly colored, and signal to our psychological dependency on the weather like an alarm that wakes the dreamer back to reality. Street’s use of her body as a tool is long-standing; she has consistently combined physicality and storytelling to explore strength and fragility, first through her topographical fabric paintings and now through her works on paper, shifting toward a new framework for how the body moves through time. Street’s canvas’s bear witness to the inevitable progression moving forward season to season, day to day, weather condition to weather condition, while reflecting on our complicated relationship to nature, technology, and our physical existence in the world.
Street was born in Virginia (USA) and lives and works in Los Angeles. She studied bronze casting in central Italy and painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
April Street
High pressure and illumination will not happen concurrently, 2025
Gouache on paper
60x45,75cm / 24x18 inches