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October 2025
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October 2025
FEVER DREAM: Next Gen Surrealism lights up Soho’s Hottest New Artist Space - by Coco Dolle
The Studio Underground Space and Fever Dream Installation view, image Zoe Berger, 2025
FEVER DREAM
Curated by Julianna Vezzetti and Xandra Beverlin
West Broadway, Soho, NYC
By COCO DOLLE May 22, 2025
There’s a new player shaking the gallery scene in Soho. Nestled directly beneath Walter de Maria’s legendary DIA installation on West Broadway, a bold new artist space led by Julianna Vezzetti has officially staked its claim. Think high ceilings, floor-spanning expanse, and lighting so sharp it feels like it’s curated too. This isn't just a project space, it's a full-on launchpad for multidisciplinary artists and residencies.
The space’s latest venture FEVER DREAM, is its third exhibition and the very first curatorial collaboration with Pulse Projects.
Curators Xandra Beverlin and Julianna Vezzetti, image Zoe Berger, 2025
A deep dive into the wild waters of Surrealism, FEVER DREAM doesn’t just pay homage to the movement, it jolts it back to life. Expect paintings that dances on the edge of dream logic, experimental forms, spinning sculptures, and deliciously twisted psychological landscapes. Picture this: you’re underwater, just beneath the surface, where reality and illusion blur in a kaleidoscopic haze. That’s FEVER DREAM, unsettling, magnetic, and oddly familiar in this era of beautifully chaotic everything.
Works by artists Petra Cortright, Matthew Tully Dugan, Marek Wolfryd, image Zoe Berger, 2025
"I Apple" motorized stainless steel vessels sculpture by Ananas Ananas, image Zoe Berger, 2025
Fever Dream Installation view, image Zoe Berger, 2025
Surrealism’s greatest hits, melting clocks, strange figures, uncanny settings -get reimagined through the lens of right-now, right-here. The world may feel like a dream you can’t quite wake up from, but this show makes you want to stay asleep just a little longer.
"Bunnies in the Sun" Artwork by JPW3, Image Zoe Berger, 2025
"Rain Tree" artwork by Ji Zou (detail), image Zoe Berger, 2025
Opening night took the mind-bending magic to a whole new level with a powerhouse performance reimagining "Machine Room Door". A site-specific movement work by Ella Dawn W-S with dancers Maxi Canion, Brendan Bunny Elefante, and Laura Witsken inhabited the space, bending and reshaping it with every pulse and pivot. It was movement as architecture, emotion as choreography.
"Machine Room Door" performance by Ella Dawn W-S with dancers Maxi Canion, Brendan Bunny Elefante, and Laura Witsken
A must-seee! FEVER DREAM is up for two more weeks.
FEVER DREAM
Curated by Julianna Vezzetti and Xandra Beverlin
On view till June 7th
West Broadway, Soho, NYC
Exhibiting artists: Aineki Traverso, Ananas Ananas, Botond Keresztesi, Danmo Fu, Ji Zou, JPW3, Magdalena Petroni, Marek Wolfryd, Matthew Tully Dugan, Milly Skellington, Monsieur Zohore, Petra Cortright, Rosalie G. L. Smith, Ry David Bradley, Tim Kent, and Will Maxen.
Coco Dolle
Coco Dolle is a French-American artist, writer, and independent curator based in New York since the late 90s. Former dancer and fashion muse for acclaimed artists including Alex Katz, her performances appeared in Vogue and The NY Times. Over the past decade, she has organized numerous exhibitions acclaimed in high-end publications including Forbes, ArtNet, VICE, and W Magazine. She is a contributing writer for L’Officiel Art and Whitehot Magazine. As an artist, her work focuses on body politics and feminist issues as seen at the Oregon Contemporary (OR) and Mary Ryan Gallery (NYC).
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