updates

I’m in Zagreb for a week, leading a 4-day workshop for the students of the New Media department of the Fine Art Academy (ALU), and doing a talk on Tuesday, 16 December at noon.

On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, I will be giving a lecture at the Slade, UCL, part of their Contemporary Art Lecture series.

Wednesday 3 December, 5pm

Cruciform Lecture Theatre, LT1 (Basement)

Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

FREE and open to all.

I was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award – the award ceremony was this evening… I didn’t get it. And to round things off I even managed to miss the award ceremony because my train back from Paris was cancelled… It would have been nice to meet the PH Foundation staff who have all been so lovely throughout the process, as well as the other nominated artists.

Thank you so much to the anonymous nominator who nominated me – if you are reading this…! I’m grateful and touched by these signs that people believe in and are compelled by what I do. I did a good job on the application I think! 🙂 – a process which really brought into focus how significant a difference this kind of support might have made to the development of my work.

That said – warmest congrats and respect to all the other artists in the running tonight.
Solidarity, strength and love to all.

Onwards!

I’m en route to Paris this morning for the preview of Paris Photo where the London-based gallery England & Co is presenting several of my works, alongside several other contemporary and historical pieces by other artists.

PARIS PHOTO 2025
13-16 November / Grand Palais
Booth of England & Co Gallery
Stand C28

Visit us if you’re in Paris!

On view my Monuments and a selection of Venice Collages, a series that has emerged from Venice at Hand, presented as part of my project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale last year.

View of England & Co booth at Paris Photo 2025

Press release on the gallery website here.

I’m very happy that Sally O’Reilly has included Unhinged in her new edition of The Body in Contemporary Art (hot off the press from Thames&Hudson). I absolutely love Sally’s reading of the piece in the book – am always so grateful to learn new things about the work and what it does from other people’s thoughtful takes.

Unhinged is a 6-hour-long performance, originally commissioned by Simone Aughterlony and Jorge León for their project To Serve / A House Without a Maid. The piece was performed in historical mansions in Brussels, Lisbon, Berlin, Bern, Rotterdam, and Zurich.

More info and documentation here and here.

Last two performances of Go With Your Heart, a work by me and Tim Etchells for Basel Ballet, are on this week at Theatre Basel. Performances on 18th and 21st June 2025 at 19:30.

Join us if you are in town for Art Basel!

More details and to book: https://www.theater-basel.ch/en/gowithyourheart

More images in Projects section here.

Ivan Talijancic spoke with Tim and me about ‘Go With Your Heart’ for BOMB Magazine.

‘Go With Your Heart,’ our new commission for Basel Ballet, is playing at Theater Basel until 21 June. Tickets here.

An interview with me is out in the new print issue of KONTURA Art Magazine.

Thanks to Jozefina Ćurković for the conversation and Nevenka Šarčević for the invite.

Out now!

Tim Etchells and I are spending 3 months in Basel, working with the dancers of Basel Ballet on a new commission, set to premiere on 21st March. Details and the link with more info below. Exciting!

“Go With Your Heart”
by Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat
with the dancers and guests of Basel Ballet

Premiere: 21 March 2025.
Running until 21 June on Grosse Bühne at Theater Basel

Choreography, direction and stage design: Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat
Music and composition: Tim Etchells
Costume design: Laura Hopkins
Lighting design: Nigel Edwards

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand received a Special Mention of the jury in the category of Overall project design at the bi-annual Exhibition of Croatian Design, organized by HDD – Croatian Designers Association.

The awards were announced on Friday at the opening of the exhibition presenting all the nominated projects, which can be seen at Lauba – House for people and art in Zagreb until 22 January.

Category: Overall project design
Special mention: Vlatka Horvat & Oaza

Exhibition design: Vlatka Horvat & Oaza (Nina Bačun, Maša Poljanec)
Visual identity & web design: Maša Poljanec (Oaza)
Reader & print design: Nina Bačun, Tina Ivezić, Maša Poljanec (Oaza)
Catalog design: Tina Ivezić (Oaza)
Production & project management: Morana Matković

Contributors: Slavko Petek (technical drawings); Josipa Tadić (web design assistant); Nikola Greiner (programming); Sara Salamon (animation); Rebiennale/R3B: Reuse, Recycle, Rebuild (exhibition setup & production); Sara Dumančić (map drawing); Hugo Glendinning (photography & video)

Organization: Apoteka – Space for contemporary art
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

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More info about the Exhibition of Croatian Design here

On 9th January we launched the catalogue Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand at the Gorgona Hall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Thank you all who joined us to celebrate the publication. Stay tuned for further launches in London, Berlin, and Milan.

The book is here, yey!

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand, available on 7th January 2025 from Archive Books.

Published by Archive Books (Berlin/Milan/Dakar), Unstable Object (London), and Oaza (Zagreb), By the Means at Hand documents Vlatka Horvat’s eponymous project presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition— La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. Breaking the frame of the traditional exhibition catalogue, this publication mirrors the evolving nature of the work through a combination of documentation, dialogue, and reflections on the process.

Edited by Vlatka Horvat, Antonia Majaca, and Kate Sutton, and beautifully designed by Tina Ivezić (Oaza), the book frames the project through exhibition images by photographer Hugo Glendinning, as well as through Horvat’s extraordinary collage series at the heart of the project.

WITH TEXTS BY: Ivana Bago, Anne Boyer, Tim Etchells, Vlatka Horvat, Antonia Majaca, Massimiliano Mollona, Harun Morrison, Lara Pawson, Emily Pethick, Noémie Solomon, and What, How & for Whom/WHW.

More info and sample spreads here.

Ellen Wilkinson from a-n The Artists Information Company spoke with me about my year:

Most exhibitions are finished by the opening. And once they open, they stay unchanged for the duration of the show.

By the Means at Hand at the Croatian Pavilion in Venice was not one of those shows. It was a performative system in continuous flux, a shape-shifting living thing, which at any given moment could only be caught in fragments.

Between mid-April and end of November, I changed the display many times to show over 200 works by artist friends and the same number of my own works made on site over the course of those 8 months.

Here are some of the incarnations of the display across the show’s timeline.

Photos #2,3,6 by Hugo Glendinning, the rest are mine.

Here’s a selection of press clippings about By the Means at Hand, my project for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, 20 April – 24 November 2024:

Over the past 8 months, over 200 works by artists from all over the world have made their way to the Croatian Pavilion in Venice, hitching rides in backpacks and carry-ons, using a network of over 400 informal couriers, including artists, neighbors, in-laws, and even perfect strangers.

Meanwhile, for every work that has arrived, I have dispatched a collage of my own to each artist. Many of these have been transported by visitors to the pavilion (with some still in transit!).

By the Means at Hand would not have existed without this little leap of faith and act of trust from each of the contributing artist. On behalf of the entire team at By the Means at Hand, our warmest gratitude.

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

It’s my bday. A round one. I’m spending it in the Croatian Pavilion in Venice, which is my home until December.

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. 🙂