This amazing group of women I’ve been lucky to work with this year, and lucky to have in my life.
L to R: Morana Matković – our producer extraordinaire, me, Antonia Majaca – our curator, and Nevena Tudor Perković – our commissioner at the Ministry of Culture and Media.
Missing from the core team: Kate Sutton, who sadly couldn’t join us for the closing week.
A few days before the closing of the Biennale, we organized an ‘in conversation’ event featuring Antonia and me.
Drawing from our extensive dialogue that has taken place over the course of working on By the Means at Hand – my project for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale – we discussed the project’s reimagining of artistic exchange, community, and belonging in our current moment of ecological crisis and rising nationalism.
Photo and video: Hugo Glendinning
I have made some new works for artissima in Torino.
Monologue/Dialogue section – Vlatka Horvat and Serena Vestrucci
Hall Pink B – Booth 22: Renata Fabbri
artissima
1-3 November 2024
OVAL Lingotto Fiere, Torino
Showing several new pieces:
Cutoffs: Seas and Skies (I, II), 2024 (I is pictured above)
Collage with inkjet prints on photo paper
Way Out (Venice) 01-12, 2024
Oil-based colour pencil on inkjet print on Epson archival photo paper
Plus a few historical 🙂 works:
Here to Stay 01-06, 2007
C-Print
Wave Form I, II, 2023
Wool felt, thread
Out Lined (Figure) III, 2011
Collage with cut inkjet prints on paper
I’m just back (in Venice) from 24 hours in Vienna installing my work at Lombardi–Kargl. The show, titled You You, is curated by Kate Sutton and is part of curated_by, Vienna’s annual city-wide festival.
Earlier in the summer, Kate and I recorded a curated_by podcast episode, talking about my work in the show and a bunch of other things! The episode is available on the curated by website, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
You You
Curated by Kate Sutton
with
Gabriele Beveridge, Tenzing Dakpa, Katrina Daschner, David Fesl, Doris Guo, Vlatka Horvat, Ketty La Rocca, Mercedes Magrané, Mario Mu, Rosa Rendl
Opening days
September 13 and 14, 12.00 – 19.00
17.09. – 19.10.2024
part of “Untold Narratives,” curated_by festival
Tim and I are in Basel to meet folks and have discussions about our new production for Basel Ballet next year. Titled ‘Go with Your Heart,’ the piece will have its premiere on 21 March 2025 followed by 16 performances in March – June. Here we are last night in the lobby of Theatre Basel. 🙂
Hugo Glendinning has worked with us to make a short introductory video about By the Means at Hand – Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale:
Do visit the website for By the Means at Hand – my project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. You can read about the project, watch a short video about it by Hugo Glendinning, see the list of all the participating artists and their works, and download a PDF of our reader, with 12 newly commissioned texts.
Website design: OAZA (Maša Poljanec). Web development: Nikola Greiner
“Outside the Giardini in the Croatia pavilion, London-based artist Vlatka Horvat’s By the Means at Hand invites numerous artists, none of whom are living in their native countries, to send small artworks by hand, via friends and strangers, to be shown in the pavilion. Horvat responds in an ongoing, reciprocal series of photocollages. The project is all about trust, solidarity, improvisation and generosity, and will evolve over the coming months. The show is an ongoing open conversation, a model of exchange and dialogue we could all do with more of, and one entirely without posturing or grand statements.”
Full article here.
Happy to have had a chance to answer Art Review editors’ questions about my project in Venice:
https://artreview.com/vlatka-horvat-on-representing-croatia-at-the-60th-venice-biennale/
‘By the Means at Hand,’ my project for the Croatian Pavilion – La Biennale di Venezia is included among the “unmissable off-site exhibitions in Venice” picked by Frieze magazine editors.
“Over the last few weeks, I have spotted Instagram posts of packages of different shapes and sizes in the hands of various people in different cities, along travel routes documented by airport codes such as LHR and JFK. Here, artist Vlatka Horvat aims to illustrate often informal methods of transporting objects from country to country by those living abroad (the photographs reminded me of the parcels my mother would receive in Ghana for her return to the UK addressed to another relative, therefore avoiding substantial shipping costs). Horvat’s ‘By the Means at Hand’ will include drawings from over 200 artist friends, transported to Venice via these informal exchanges, and in return Horvat will produce works during her time in Venice to be sent via these same method of using suitcases belonging to friends and strangers alike.” – VANESSA PETERSON, associate editor
Croatian Pavilion is situated in Fàbrica 33, corner of Calle Larga dei Boteri and Calle Ruzzini, Cannaregio 5063 (Vaporetto station Fondamente Nove).
Official opening is on April 19, 3pm. Join us for the opening, and during the pre-opening days: 16th – 19th April from 10am to 7pm.
Invite below!
Our e-flux announcement is out:
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
