Our e-flux announcement is out:
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/593171/vlatka-horvatby-the-means-at-hand/
Our e-flux announcement is out:
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/593171/vlatka-horvatby-the-means-at-hand/
First visuals for my project for the Venice Biennale are out:
our Instagram is live: @croatianpavilion2024
our Facebook page is here: Croatian Pavilion – La Biennale di Venezia
and www.croatianpavilion2024.com has a temporary page up, with the full version coming shortly.
I’m in Tunis, working on a new installation for “Only Ruins to Be Found”, an exhibition curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Aziza Harmel, as part of the project La Villa Baizeau à Carthage de Le Corbusier et Jeanneret, organized by LA BOÎTE | Centre d’art contemporain in Tunis.
The opening is on 16th January at 6 pm
at Sainte-Monique Chapel, Carthage, Tunisia
The exhibition is on 16 January – 16 March 2024
Artists: Yesmine Ben Khelil, El Warcha, Niloufar Emamifar, Mohamed Harmel, Vlatka Horvat, Natascha Sadr-Haghighian & Judith Hopf, Safia Farhat and Freaks freearchitects at PATOX.
‘The Signs for Somewhere and Elsewhere and Here and Now’ opens at gaep gallery in Bucharest on Friday, 8 December, 6-9pm.
Showing a series of my Unhinged photos. The show is on until 3 February, 2024.
Opening tonight at Bard College upstate New York is a group show curated by the MA students in Curatorial Practice, drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. One of my early video works, Left to Right & Back, is part of the collection.
Opening 7 Dec, 5-7pm at CCS Bard Galleries.
And opening on 15 Dec at MMSU Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka is the next stop of The Visible Ones exhibition, which opened in the spring at MSU Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, and which will tour for the next twelve months to several partner institutions.
Showing my Fence (Repurposed), 2023.
Tim and I are in Berlin for the opening of Tim’s exhibition at Ebensperger tonight.
The show features Tim’s new and new-ish works in neon, LED/steel, drawing and video – and includes also some work of mine, including a few videos that the two of us made together.
The opening is tonight, 1 Dec 2023, 6-9pm at Ebensperger’s incredible new space in the Fichtebunker, Fichtestrasse 6, 10967 Berlin.
From the press release:
“Lost Your Way” is Tim Etchells’ fourth solo project with Ebensperger. The exhibition comprises the eponymous new neon work alongside several works on paper, videos and a large piece made with steel letters and LEDs . Enough is a set of 14 new monotypes. The video Eyes Looking shows a series of short phrases spelled out in letters made of ice which dissolve to water, the words turning repeatedly to pattern shape and reflection. The piece was first shown across Times Square in 2016, the different phrases appearing in dialogue with each other creating unexpected variations scramblings and re-imaginings of the body and its activities: Eyes Touching, Hands Walking, Blood Listening, Ears Looking.
Installed in the main space at Ebensperger, In the Trees is a large-scale sculpture with steel letter-forms and LED bulbs, originally commissioned for Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2020. The full text reads “The sound you are frightened of is only the wind in the trees”. Conceived as a spatial intervention and as a poetic text work, the sculpture operates in the tension between its invocation of fear and its offer of reassurance, the speculative presence and simultaneous absence or denial of a threat. What might the sound referenced the work be? Who is the “you” that is frightened? And who is the speaker? Can its generic form of reassurance be trusted? Whilst resonating with the built environment and historical context of its installation context at Ebensperger’s new location in a former bunker and bomb shelter – the work at the same time gestures evocatively to broader questions including cultural and political anxieties arising from climate change.
“Lost Your Way” also presents a selection of collaborative video works by Tim Etchells and the artist Vlatka Horvat from between 2001 and 2021, shown here together for the first time: Table Animals and Insults and Praises are shown here alongside Horvat’s Until the Last of Our Labours Is Done in which Etchells performs, and Down Time, one of Etchells’ earliest and best-known video works.
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More info about the show on the gallery website here.
Here a few pics of our booth at Artissima 2023:
I’m in Torino this week – just finished installing the booth at Artissima with the lovely Renata and Chiara of Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea. It looks great 🙂 but I failed to take any ‘proper’ pics today.
Here a corner of our booth, with Tim’s work lighting up the walkway, and my works still packed in boxes.
Artissima 2023
November 3-5, 2023
VIP Preview: November 2
Oval Lingotto Fiere, Torino
Booth of Renata Fabbri
Main Section – ORANGE 12
with works by Tim Etchells, Sophie Ko and Vlatka Horvat
On Thursday, 19th October at 6pm, I will be in conversation with Kristina Bonjeković Stojković, Senior Curator at MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, about my exhibition Good Company, which is on view at the museum until 12th November 2023.
My project titled By the Means at Hand has been selected to represent Croatia at next year’s Venice Biennale. (yeyyyyy!!)
My show, Good Company, opens on Thursday, 14 September at 7pm at MSU Zagreb – Museum of Contemporary Art. The show will be on until 12 November 2023.
Good Company is part of “Triggers”, a cycle of exhibitions in which invited artists engage in a dialogue with works from the museum collection.
“Triggers” / Collection as a Verb
Vlatka Horvat: Good Company
Opening 14/09/2023
Until 12/11/2023
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Vlatka Horvat’s exhibition, Good Company, presents a selection of works from the Sculpture collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art through the lens of the artist’s own practice. Comprising an experimental wall-based publication that uses reference images of works from the museum’s database alongside a cacophonous assembly of sculptures in the room, the exhibition places pieces from different eras and artistic movements into dialogue with one another and with Horvat’s own drawings and sculptural interventions. Good Company stages a playful temporary meeting of works at the border between representation and abstraction, linking works through their visual equivalencies and contrasts to reflect on modes of organisation and categorisation.
More info on MSU site: here
Documentation images on in my project section here.
Happy to be showing my work What Remains in a show titled Constellations at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art in Vodnjan. Constellations marks Apoteka’s tenth bday, bringing together a selection of artists who have exhibited in the gallery over the past decade.
What Remains consists of a stack of paper, each stamped with a red stamp that says WHAT REMAINS. Visitors are invited to take away a sheet of paper from the top of the pile so the stack that remains in the gallery gradually gets smaller and smaller. Through a certain literalness, the work speaks of the process of slow disappearance and vanishing. The stamped phrase can be read both as a description of what is happening to the gradually shrinking stack over time, as well as a truncated question, posed more broadly: a question about presence, about the traces – material and immaterial – we leave behind in space and in time, a question about memory, about change, about going forward while looking back. In Apoteka, What Remains additionally draws attention to the storefront gallery’s former function as a pharmacy, inviting the visitors into an encounter with this particular physical space and its history.
What Remains was first shown in 2008 at White Columns in NYC and at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The stamped stack exhibited in Constellations is literally the remainder of the much bigger stack exhibited in my Temporary Encounters solo show in Apoteka in 2014.
Constellations
Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art, Vodnjan, Croatia
29.07.2023 – 15.09.2023
With: Ben Cain, Jasmina Cibic, Licio Debeljuh, Matija Debeljuh, Igor Eškinja, Petra Feriancova, Alen Floričić, Foam – Maja Kuzmanović & Nik Gaffney, Igor Grubić, Tina Gverović, Ibro Hasanović, Vlatka Horvat, Kristian Kožul, Maja Kuzmanović, Marko Lulić, David Maljković, Damir Očko, Lala Raščić, Dragana Sapanjoš, SofijaSilvia, Mladen Stropnik, Silvo Šarić , Marko Tadić, Dino Zrnec
I could not be happier that the amazing Lara Pawson wrote about my To See Stars over Mountains in the recent issue of TLS – Times Literary Supplement, in response to the question; “what art and literature can be, or do, in times of tension, conflict and destruction”.
Waiting for the hard copy to arrive in the post (or rather waiting to get back to London from Avignon so I can get my post) and in the meantime here’s a cheeky (and apparently very low res!) phone screen grab:
An interview with me by Francesca Pagliuca is out in the new (Summer 2023) issue of arte e critica. “You can’t step in the same river twice” – in both English and Italian. Will add a PDF to the press section as soon as I get my hands on a copy!
For now, just a screen grab of the cover and table of contents:
I have just uploaded the images of my new works, made for Coupling: Maarit Mustonen & Vlatka Horvat at PUBLICS in Helsinki. The show is on until 30 June and some documentation is on these pages:
Coupling – show documentation
Reinforcements – new version of my 2016 installation, always made in situ with locally sourced materials
New Concertina pieces in Stitched Works on Paper
Views (Remembered) – an experimental publication in the form of text decals on windows
I love this image I took through the window of the spaces inside and outside PUBLICS merging:
Very happy to have been invited to show with Maarit Mustonen in the fourth incarnation of Coupling at PUBLICS in Helsinki. Coupling is a series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or pairings, where two artists are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.
Maarit and my presentation comprises a public event, exhibition and series of window installations. I will show a new incarnation of my site-responsive installation Reinforcements, as well as a new work on paper titled Soft Spine (Concertina). Maarit and I are also collaborating on the new edition of Eurantie Window Publication, an experimental spatial publication Maarit edits with Arja Karhumaa in the Multipöly Room windows in Vallila.
Vlatka Horvat | Maarit Mustonen: Coupling
at PUBLICS, Helsinki, Finland
opening 8 June 2023 until 30 June 2023
Event: 8 June, 5-7pm
Maarit Mustonen and Vlatka Horvat in conversation with Paul O’Neill
Maarit and I will talk about our practices, discussing the various points of connection explored in our joint presentation at PUBLICS.
In 2012 I made a work for the 53rd October Salon in Belgrade called Fenced Off Area. More than a decade later, I decided that the fence/barrier/cordon/spatial divider should become a path/a bridge/a track/ a connecting structure.
Fence (Repurposed) is on view until 1 October, as part of a large group exhibition Vidljive / The Visible Ones, which opened last week at MSU Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. The show will tour in 2023 and 2024 to the project partner institutions: MMSU Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, GALUM Fine Art Gallery in Split, MLU Museum of Fine Art in Osijek and UGD Art Gallery Dubrovnik.
Vidljive / The Visible Ones
at MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
18 May – 1 October 2023
My 2012 work ‘Around About’ (‘O oko’ in Croatian/Serbian), which is held in the October Salon Collection in Belgrade, is on view in ‘Unearthing the Collection’ exhibition at Galerija Podroom:
Otkopavanje kolekcije / Unearthing the Collection
Galerija Podroom Belgrade
11 May – 17 June 2023
Curated by Zorana Đaković Minniti, Jane Gligorijević, Vladimir Bjeličić and Siniša Ilić.
The work was originally a commission for GOOD LIFE, the 53rd October Salon 2012, part of a larger 3-room installation in the spectacular former Geozavod building in Belgrade, curated by Branko Dimitrijević and Mika Hannula. Images of the full installation are here.
My work Ladder (I), 2009 is included in The Book of Ladders: 100 Contemporary Artworks by Adeline de Monseignat and Paul Carey-Kent.
The piece was made for, and first shown in, my solo show ‘Or Some Other Time’ at the Kitchen in NYC, curated by Matthew Lyons. Install images of the show are here.
A great text by Giovanna Manzotti on Tim Etchells’s and my show at Renata Fabri in Milano in Mousse Magazine.
If you find yourself in Zurich, please come to the opening of
Vlatka Horvat – Simon Callery
Opening: 14 April 2023, 6 – 8 pm
15 April – 20 May 2023
annex14Limmatstrasse 270 CH-8005 Zurich |
The show is ready! Tim and I have been in Milan the last 5 days installing. Very excited about the show, which has been a labour of love (they always are 🙂 but this one in particular!). The opening is tonight 6-9; please join us if you’re near.
I will post some images here soon.
For now, just a few teaser pics from the last day of installing – with Lola the dog being the sweetest little helper.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present Vlatka Horvat & Tim Etchells Same River Twice 29.03 – 03.06.2023 Opening 29.03.2023, h. 18–21 Critical essay by Giovanna Manzotti |
Happy to announce that Tim Etchells and I are doing a 2-person show at Renata Fabbri in Milano, opening 29 March. The show, titled Same River Twice, will run until 3 June 2023 – put it on your list if you are coming to Milano for MiArt in April…
From the press release:
Stemming from a long-lasting collaboration between the two artists – both work and life partners – the show is structured as a close dialogue between Horvat’s new sculptural works and works on paper and Etchells’s new neon pieces.
Linked by their reciprocal interest in the processes of repetition and in the exploration of structures that both produce and eschew variation, the artists employ a range of different media, such as sculpture, performance, writing, drawing, photography and video. The title of the exhibition, Same River Twice, is a fragment of the expression “You can’t step in the same river twice” and speaks to Horvat and Etchells’s shared preoccupation with ideas around change, transformation and instability. It also evokes the flow and movement of nature, bodies, time and language, explored in different ways by the works on show.
Through the interaction of various materials, such as paper, textiles, ceramic, wood and cork, Horvat’s sculptural works refer to gestures of holding, joining and cradling and raise questions around protection, containment and mobility. In several of the works on paper she reworks the page as an object, dismantling and repairing it while materially recording the passing of time. Etchells’s new neon pieces extend his ongoing work on contradictory aspects of language, drawing attention to the speed, clarity and vividness with which it communicates narrative, image and ideas, and its simultaneous propensity to create rich fields of uncertainty and ambiguity.
The show will run until 3 June 2023.
This past week I’ve been in Milano, working with the amazing master ceramicist Massimiliano Pipolo in his Fornace Ceramics Lab.
Massimiliano is an incredible maker, expert technician and teacher and I had the best time working alongside him and his studio assistant Claudia on some new ceramic pieces that will form a part of a new body of work loosely based on the phases of the moon.
This new series is one of several new pieces I’ve been busy making for my upcoming show at Renata Fabbri in Milan. The show, titled Same River Twice, is a two-person exhibition with the most wonderful Tim Etchells 🙂 opening on 29th March.
The pieces are now in the drying stage… Looking forward to going back to Milano in a couple of weeks.