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Charlotte Herzig

– Casa Wabi 2025

Community Project

Through guided meditations, profound internal reflections were encouraged among the participants of the project. By reflecting on both personal and community life, they gradually created mental images representing moods, emotions, landscapes, personal histories, and family memories. These representations were then translated into drawings, paintings, collages, and writings that expressed part of the experiences and emotions of the students at the Technical Secondary School of San José Manialtepec.

Log-Piece

    Growing shifts
    Watercolor
    2026

    Switzerland

    Switzerland, 1983

    Charlotte Herzig was born in 1983 in Vevey, Switzerland. There, she quickly developed a pictorial practice at the intersection of DIY and artists run spaces and the visionary tradition of women artists using art as a spiritual technology.

    She graduated from the School of Art and Design in Lausanne (ECAL) and moved to the United States, where she earned a diploma from the San Francisco Art Institute (Master of Fine Arts, Painting Department). She lived in Los Angeles, Berlin, and is now based in Brussels. Herzig practice adresses perception, affect and memory. From intimate works on paper, complex semi-abstract landscapes on canvases to immersive murals, Herzig’s paintings are haptic spaces in which organic elements manifest and co-exist, translations of inexpressible affects in constant evolution and gentle transformation. The result is an unsettling navigation of the gaze. Using a limited amount of colours and quasi-geometric, recurring forms, the artist’s works are like eye-racing fields in which a series of movements and sensations are animated. An experience that sets perception in motion, offering a bodily relation to the painting, way of being oneself coloured by it. The artist has been shown at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Swiss Institute (Rome), Beige (Brussels), VFO (Zürich), Le Commun (Geneva), Centre Pasquart (Biel), Frankfurt am Main (Berlin), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina) and Wilde gallery (Geneva).