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.
My works ‘Twos‘ and ‘Stars over Mountains‘ will be shown at miart in Milano next weekend, at the booth of Lombardi — Kargl (Vienna).
miart 2025
Milano
Lombardi — Kargl, Vienna – Booth A37
3-6 April
Works by
Katrina Daschner, Vlatka Horvat, Agnieszka Polska, Dario Wokurka
Very happy that my piece Balance Beam #0724 has recently been acquired by the Ljubljana-based NLB collection.
The work is included in the exhibition that opened today at MUZA – a new exhibition space in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Titled Echo – NLB Contemporary Art Collection in Dialogue, the exhibition presents 70 art works from the NLB art collection, including newly purchased works, two commissioned works, and older works from the collection.
Echo – NLB Contemporary Art Collection in a Dialogue
MUZA Museum and Gallery, Čopova 3, Ljubljana
26 March 2025 – 8 February 2026
Curated by Mira Gakjina, Meta Kordiš, Tevž Logar
Artists:
New acquisitions: Nika Autor, Jelena Bulajić, Jasmina Cibic, Vadim Fishkin, Hristina Ivanoska & Yane Calovski, Biljana Djurdjević, Vlatka Horvat, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Nina Ivanović, Doruntina Kastrati, Staš Kleindienst, Andrea Knezović, Sanja Latinović & Ranko Djanković, Mladen Miljanović, Alban Muja, Nada Prlja, Nora Turato, Dardan Zhegrova
Commissioned artworks: Šejla Kamerić, Nataša Prosenc Stearns
Thanks to dear Jasmina Cibic for the photo, as I couldn’t be there for the opening.
Last night we premiered ‘Go With Your Heart,’ a new piece by Tim Etchells and me, commissioned by Adolphe Binder for Basel Ballet and created in collaboration with sixteen ensemble members and guests. Over the past few months, we had a great pleasure to work with this extraordinary group of dancers to develop the piece, using frameworks for action which guide, shape, and sometimes restrict the dancers’ improvisation.
We are hugely proud of this work and looking forward to the next 15 performances, each different in its particular articulation of the structure and the dramaturgy, running on the Grosse Buhne of Theater Basel until 21 June.
Thank you to Adolphe Binder and Tilman O’Donnell for their enormous trust and support, and for opening the Basel Ballet program to artists coming in from other art forms and ways of working. Thank you to our team for the amazing collaboration and hard work – our costume designer Laura Hopkins, lighting designer Nigel Edwards, rehearsal director Jonathan Fredrickson, and all the dance artists and guests of the Basel Ballet who have plunged into this process with us with an openness, enthusiasm, and up-for-it-ness every step of the way. It’s been a great joy watching this incredible ensemble take on the instructions and parameters we have given them, continually surprising and delighting us with their particular ways of inhabiting and giving form to our propositions.
More info and tickets: https://www.theater-basel.ch/en/gowithyourheart
‘Go With Your Heart’
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Tim Etchells, Vlatka Horvat
STAGE Tim Etchells, Vlatka Horvat
COSTUMES Laura Hopkins
LIGHTS Nigel Edwards
MUSIC & COMPOSITION Tim Etchells
DEVELOPED WITH AND PERFORMED BY
Yaëlle Chassin, Amy Josh, David Lagerqvist, Dario Minoia, Stefanie Pechtl, Jan Chris Pollert, Anthony Ramiandrisoa, Javier Ara Sauco, Alma Toaspern, Giulia Torri, Thalia Tulkens, Sophie Flannery Prune Vergéres, Jin Young Won, Cheng-An Wu, Ophelia Young, Max Zachrisson
Photo: Ingo Hoehn
More photos and info in the Projects section soon!
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!
Several pieces from my The Past Is Another Country series are included in absent at annex14 gallery in Zurich.
absent
with Brigham Baker, Vlatka Horvat, Peter Iseli, Géza Perneczky, Ana Roldan
Opening: 15 March, 3-6pm
Hirschengraben 3, 8005 Zürich
on until 12 April 2025
The Past Is Another Country (01-16), 2015
Inkjet photo collage mounted on board
The source material for this series of collages are photographs depicting a female figure, the artist’s mother, in scenes shot in the late 60s/early 70s socialist Yugoslavia. Using a series of cutting and folding gestures, the artist sometimes removes all context and surroundings around the figure of her mother as a young woman, leaving the figure suspended in the midst of empty frames; other times she folds the figure outside the edges of the photograph, or outside the edges of the paper itself.
Photo documentation of my work Unhinged, a 6-hour performance realized in Brussels, Lisbon, Berlin, Bern, Rotterdam, and Zurich in 2010 and 2011 is included in a group show It’s Too Late to Give Up – Feminist Performance in Croatia, opening on Tuesday 3 March 2025 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. The exhibition is produced by DOMINO Association, and is the third exhibition in their cycle of shows looking at Feminist Performance in Croatia.
It’s Too Late to Give Up – Feminist Performance in Croatia (group show)
DOMINO Association at MSU Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
4 March – 22 March 2025
Curated by Suzana Marjanić, Maja Pavlinić i Zvonimir Dobrović
Artists:
Milijana Babić, Selma Banich, Iva Matija Bitanga, Tajči Čekada, Tanja Dabo, Vlasta Delimar, Iva Đorđević, Vlatka Horvat, Sanja Iveković, Ivana Ivković, Ana Janjatović-Zorica, Ana Katulić, Dunja Knebl, Andrea Knezović, Božena Končić-Badurina, Ksenija Kordić, Iva Kovač, Petra Kovačić, Nina Kurtela, Sonja Leboš, Arijana Lekić-Fridrih, Vesna Mačković, Nikolina Majdak, Lara Mandli, Kristina Marić, Kata Mijatović, Nadija Mustapić, Ana Mušćet, Irma Omerzo, Marina Petković Liker, Nikolina Pristaš, Dina Rončević, Nika Rukavina, Neli Ružić, Marijana Stanić, Sandra Sterle, Angela Stipić, Matea Šabić Sabljić, Neda Šimić Božinović, Marija Štrajh, Anica Tomić, Ksenija Turčić, Ivana Nataša Turković, Xena L. Županić, Lucija Žuti
Opening reception Tuesday, 4 March at 7pm.
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.
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
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
