My solo exhibition, Echo Location, opens today at Swimming Pool Projects in Sofia. It’s being presented in the frame of the 3rd edition of the festival Nine Elephants.
I’m doing an artist talk at the gallery at 5pm, which is followed by the opening reception 6-10pm.
Here’s a sneak peak – I will add images of the show at the link here after the opening.
My exhibition, titled Echo Location, will open on Thursday, 9th July at Swimming Pool in Sofia, opening also this year’s edition of Nine Elephants festival. While in Sofia, I will also be leading a workshop on Wednesday, 8th July, and on Thursday before the opening, join us for a conversation / exhibition walk-through.
The artist talk / walk-through is at 5pm / exhibition and festival opening 6 – 10pm. All welcome.
The workshop you need to sign up for by emailing the gallery.
Info about the show and the workshop is here.
About the festival:
“The new festival edition, titled Everything We Do, connects the city with our actions – from everyday activities and micro-gestures, to the city as a place for work and learning, to the better things we could do, if only something were not holding us back. Between habit and radical change, between economic labor and invisible care, a broad ecology of interactions unfolds — shaping the city as it is, but also as it could be.”
You can read about the festival programme on e-flux here or see the whole day-by-day schedule here.
England & Co gallery is showing a selection of my photo-based works at Photo London. The fair held the VIP Preview yesterday and opens to the public today. Visit us at Stand C07!
My works on display include a selection of my recent series Venice Collages alongside several older works; Here to Stay, Hybrids, and Out Lined (Figure and Tree).
England & Co booth at Photo London 2026. Courtesy England & Co.
Photo London
13 May 2026: VIP Preview
14-17 May 2026: Open 11am-8pm Thu,Fri,Sat / 11am-6pm Sun
Olympia London
National Hall
Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX
Klaudio Štefančić has written a generous review of By the Means at Hand, my project for the 60th Venice Biennale, currently on view at the MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.
The Croatian version is out now (link below); the English version is forthcoming:
https://kulturpunkt.hr/kritika/od-svijeta-se-gradi-kuca-a-od-mnostva-prijatelji
Some lovely pics from the opening of By the Means at Hand at the MSU Zagreb on 24 March 2026. Great to see so many friends – thanks to all who came!
The exhibition is on view until 21 June 2026.
Photo: Vedran Benović
I’m very happy that my 2024 Venice Biennale project, By the Means at Hand, which I donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art / MSU Zagreb after the closing of the Biennale, is being exhibited at the museum this spring.
The exhibition at the MSU presents a selection of works by artists who participated in my project in Venice, alongside extensive accompanying documentation of the project’s conception, development, and realization.
The opening reception is on Tuesday, 24th March at 6pm (MSU, 3rd floor) and the exhibition remains on view until 21st June 2026.
More info on the exhibition on the MSU web:
English: http://www.msu.hr/dogadanja/vlatka-horvat-by-the-means-at-hand-prirucnim-sredstvima/1893/en.html
Croatian: http://www.msu.hr/dogadanja/vlatka-horvat-by-the-means-at-hand%20/1893/hr.html
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.
My exhibition, titled Mijene (Changes / Tides), opened yesterday in the Cellars of the Diocletian’s Palace in Split, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built at the end of the 3rd century as a fortress, military garrison, and residence for the Roman emperor Diocletian.
The exhibition stretches through several vaulted underground halls of the western wing of the Diocletian’s Cellars. The new works, conceived in dialogue with the space and realized in situ, draw from the history of the Cellars as well as from their spatial and architectural characteristics.
Vlatka Horvat: Mijene / Tides
in the Cellars of the Diocletian’s Palace in Split
8 November – 21 December 2025
Commissioned by HULU Split, as an inaugural exhibition of their new series titled Program 210.
Documentation of the exhibition can be seen in the Projects section 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.
Opening reception today, 6-8pm
A selection of photos from No Contextual Information, a collaborative work by me and Tim Etchells, is on view in ‘New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection’ at Millennium Gallery. The show presents highlights of the paintings, works on paper, sculpture and video art that have joined the Visual Art Collection of Sheffield Museums over the last ten years.
No Contextual Information, a series of 35 photos, was one of the works we produced as part of our commission for Sheffield Museums in 2017. The series was subsequently acquired by the museum thanks to matching grants from ArtFund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund.
The full series is here. Info on our 2017 show that the series was a part of is here.
’New Horizons’ is on at Millennium Gallery until 25 January 2026.
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.
