A midsummer night’s dream is a three-square-metre room built nearby one of the most important urban development projects in Europe. The room faces the advancing city configuring itself as a place of meditation, dreams and love. 

A midsummer night’s dream is a project realised during the DREAM ESTATE residency programme with Das weisse haus and Notgalerie in Vienna. 

The room is a bedroom, it evokes the moment of awakening as a time and space during which one acquires renewed self-awareness. Dreams have a transformative role in fairy tales. Since ancient tales, the hut has been a place of contact between two worlds inherent in human existence, that of wakefulness and that of sleep; by entering this dimension, the character takes the first steps towards an initiatory process. A midsummer night’s dream is the packaging of a dream made contemplable with the images of reality. The room is like a child’s bedroom that, during playtime, is transformed into a magical dimension. 

A midsummer night’s dream plays the ambivalent role of artwork and exhibition space in which artists have been invited to show their works. The room was constructed using materials found in the area; walls do not isolate the exhibition from its surroundings, but allow light, wind and dust to pass through them. The experience within the room is always changing. The artworks do not only show themselves in space but they live in the context constructing an inner reality to be explored. The work aims to stimulate the visitor’s desire for discovery by inviting him/her to enter a place that pulsates with a mysterious life.