exhibitions

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

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.

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

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.

My solo show, Drawn Close, opened on 28th February at Phoinix in Bratislava. The show will be up until 7th April. The show features new works in textiles, sculpture and photography, all made especially for the occasion.

More info plus images of the work are on the show’s page here.

I’m in Bratislava, working on a solo show which opens tomorrow, 28 Feb 2023, at Phoinix, a gallery run by the artist Petra Feriancova.

Will post more images and info – for now, a couple of shots from the space while installing.

A text-based work of mine is included in an exhibition in David Horvitz’s garden in LA – David has invited a number of artists to make instructions and scores that visitors can do while visiting the garden.

The garden is next to David’s studio, at 1911 7th Avenue, Los Angeles 90018.

I was in Čačak, Serbia recently for the opening of the 31st Nadežda Petrović Memorial – the Čačak biennial, titled Gestures, Signs of Life, curated by Siniša Ilić and Bojan Djordjev.

I’m presenting two works: my 2021 short film Until the Last of Our Labours Is Done and a new site-responsive installation titled Through and Through, which I was invited to make for the entrance foyer of Nadežda Petrović Art Gallery.

The exhibition is on 1 October – 13 November 2022 in several venues around Čačak.

With works by: BADco, Ben Cain, Bogdan Djukanović, Borjan Grujić, Tina Gverović, Vlatka Horvat, Nadežda Kirćanski, Neda Kovinić, Ivan Kožarić, Siniša Labrović, Stefan Lukić, Ola Maciejewska, Jelena Milićević, Ana Miljanić, Anastasija Pavić, Nadežda Petrović, Katarina Popović, Marko Tirnanić, Vesna Vesić, Uroš Zvizdić

Here is a guided video tour of the show produced by SEEcult.org (in Serbian) – the segment featuring me starts at 14:40

A large-scale installation incarnation of Table Animals (a collaboration between me and Tim Etchells) is in Hamburg this weekend, part of the opening programme of a new Hamburg venue, Theatre of Research (in German: FUNDUS THEATER / Forschungstheater).

Alongside the projection of the four half-hour episodes of the video performance by Tim and me, which were recently commissioned by PACT Zollverein in Essen, the presentation in Hamburg includes four participatory table setups where visitors of all ages can play the Table Animals game alongside the projection.

FUNDUS THEATER  çForschungstheater
Sievekingdamm 3 – Platz der Kinderrechte
20535 Hamburg

Artistic Ecologies Every Day: Vlatka Horvat and Marina Naprushkina
at Galerija Nova, Zagreb
Curated by Ana Dević / WHW

9 September – 18 October 2022
Galerija Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb
Opening reception 9 Sept at 8pm; conversation with the artists and guided tour at 7.30pm

Exhibition documentation here.

From the press release:
Artistic Ecologies Every Day initiates a dialogue between two artists – Vlatka Horvat and Marina Naprushkina – whose distinctive practices bridge practical and speculative, personal and political, artistic and activist sensibilities. Using a wide range of interdisciplinary and collaborative formats, both artists work to reconfigure social and physical limitations in their immediate surroundings. The exhibition brings together their recent and newly produced works across painting, installation, photography and video, including also a workshop framed as part of the project. Artistic Ecologies Every Day refers to “an ecology of practice” that Isabelle Stengers defines as “a tool for thinking through what is happening” – a tool that is “never neutral”. The exhibition approaches artistic ecologies as a process involving actions one does every day. These actions – in the form of small gestures, personal rituals and self-imposed tasks, become provisional tools and strategies relevant for wider communities.

Full press release and more info here.

Table Animals is at PACT Zollverein until 26 June, part of Claiming Common Spaces IV: Cool Down festival of talks, performances and concerts.

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Table Animals by Vlatka Horvat & Tim Etchells is an open-ended game in which two players take turns arranging and rearranging a series of mismatched animal figurines on a small table. At PACT, visitors can play the game themselves or watch Vlatka and Tim play in a 4-episode recorded video performance created especially for PACT.

My solo show By Hand, on Foot opens on 3 February at PEER, London. Invite for the opening is below; for the full press release, go to PEER.

Download the PDF of the invite here.

It is absolutely not an overstatement to say that I am thrilled to announce that I will have a solo exhibition at PEER London at the start of next year.

Here’s the announcement from PEER’s website:

PEER presents an exhibition of ambitious new works by Vlatka Horvat. Having exhibited extensively across Europe, USA and further afield, this will be her first solo exhibition in London, where she has lived for more than a decade. Horvat’s practice spans sculpture, installation, video and photography, as well as performance, publications and public interventions. Her work often involves gestures of reconfiguring space and the spatial and inherent social relations at play – exploring the precarious relationship between bodies, objects, materials, the built environment, and landscape.  

The central element of her exhibition at PEER will be an epic series of 365 A4 works on paper – one produced for every day of 2021. Each is based on a photograph the artist has taken on her daily walk, which she then playfully and radically reimagines using drawing and collage. Titled To See Stars over Mountains, the work will densely occupy the whole of the second gallery space at PEER. The works mirror, amplify, extend, repeat, and morph aspects of the landscape – celebrating the everyday as well as transforming it radically, bringing new eyes and possibilities to urban space.

To See Stars over Mountains will also be presented as an artist book documenting the entire series. The 376-page book, published in collaboration with PEER and Unstable Object, will launch at the opening of the exhibition and will be available to purchase.

Alongside the collages, Horvat will show a new sculptural installation that speaks directly to the street via PEER’s large storefront windows, and a new video produced in 2021.

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So book your calendars!

Vlatka Horvat: By Hand, on Foot
4 February – 2 April 2022
Opening reception and book launch: 3 February 18:00 – 20:00

Head over to PEER for a few more teaser images…

The Domino Effect 2 opened recently at GAEP Gallery in Bucharest. The show is on until 5th February 2022.

This group exhibition brings together 14 works selected by the gallery artists themselves. The gallery invited the artists to choose one work by another artist. With and selected by: Raluca Popa ➟ Sebastian Moldovan ➟ Tania Mouraud ➟ Vlatka Horvat ➟ Felipe Cohen ➟ Ištvan Išt Huzjan ➟ Ignacio Uriarte ➟ Mihai Plătică ➟ Mircea Stănescu ➟ Marilena Preda Sânc ➟ Pavel Brăila ➟ Damir Očko ➟ Răzvan Anton ➟ Radu Cioca.

‘Not Standing in Place’, a project that Tim Etchells and I have been working on for Theater Spektakel festival opened on 18th August in Zurich with a short performance by the two of us.

For the project we invited 14 international artists to propose imaginary monuments in text form, which are manifested as billboards, 3-dimensional constructions, small signs and banners installed across the festival site.

With new works by: Anne Bean, Caroline Bergvall, Season Butler, Tania El Khoury, Sharon Hayes, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, David Horvitz, Peter Liversidge, Harun Morrison, Ahmet Öğüt, Katrina Palmer, Dan Perjovschi, Dread Scott, and Schwar zenbach Kompl ex.

Photos of all 14 pieces are in the Projects section here. Link to the project page on the festival site is here.

If you are in Zurich, we have 6 walking tours of all the monuments over the course of the festival – led by two Zurich-based artists; scientist/artist/DJ Yara Dulac Gisler will be doing them in German and performance maker/musician Phil Hayes in English. Guided tours info and schedule is here.

My Beginnings Marathon piece is happening today at KANAL – Centre Pompidou in Brussels, part of Brussels, City of Stories.

Beginnings Marathon is a durational performance where we read out loud first pages of books to make a collage of beginnings. We are doing the piece a bit differently this time for obvious reasons… opening it up to contributions from a distance. So in addition to coming to KANAL and reading the first page of a book, people can also contribute to the project by sending in a photo of the first page of a book that’s important to them – on any topic, any genre and in any language. Pages sent in from a distance will be read out loud by a group of multilingual performers at KANAL.

Beginnings Marathon is part of the programme surrounding the final weekend of John M. Armleder’s exhibition It Never Ends.

Page One drawing by Tim Etchells.

More info on Beginnings Marathon at KANAL here.

A group show titled The Domino Effect opening on Saturday, 21 November 2020 at Gaep Gallery in Bucharest. For the show, curated by Tevž Logar, every artist in the gallery programme was invited to choose one work from another artist, in alphabetical order.

From Tevž Logar’s note about the show:

“Although an art gallery serves as a small community comprised of artists, gallerists, curators, collectors and other audiences engaged with art, the exchange between these groups can sometimes seem superficial and limited. That was the starting point for this exhibition, which tries to rethink the commercial gallery as a community and to challenge its programme. Not from the perspective of the gallerist, curator or collector, but from that of the artists themselves, who represent the core and the most important part of the community.

Titled The Domino Effect, the exhibition is the result of an interesting experiment, which gradually selected the artworks through choices made by the artists. A simple structure was applied: every artist in the gallery programme was invited to nominate one work from the following artist, in an alphabetical order. The idea was not to create a mechanism that linked the exhibited artworks, but to stimulate exchanges and connections between artists. In other words, the exhibition dismisses the framework of a classic thematic presentation by rejecting a dominant theme and calling for a break, with the aim of self-reflection.”

With: Răzvan Anton, Pavel Brăila, Radu Cioca, Felipe Cohen, Vlatka Horvat, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Sebastian Moldovan, Tania Mouraud, Damir Očko, Raluca Popa, Marilena Preda Sânc, Mircea Stănescu, Ignacio Uriarte

My work, Disruption (Scattered Lines), was selected by Felipe Cohen.

Gaep gallery’s online exhibition – Resilience Test: Vlatka Horvat – is live now here. It will be available until 9 August.

Resilience Test: Vlatka Horvat the second in a series of three online presentations – alongside those by Marilena Preda Sânc and Ištvan Išt Huzjan – focused around the three artists’ shared interest in the limits of the body, its vulnerability and its resilience.

Works of mine featured are Unhinged (2010), Monuments (2018), Balance Beam #0320 (2020) and Hybrids (2008)

I’ve been in Vienna since last week, making new work for a show at Kunsthalle Vienna, which opens on Sunday, 8th March. It’s been super intense and I have one more day left of installing. Will post more info and pics after it’s all done!
In the meantime, here’s an invite for the opening: