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‘Same River Twice’ opens tonight in Milano

29 March 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.

Renata Fabbri is pleased to present

Vlatka Horvat & Tim Etchells
Same River Twice

29.03 – 03.06.2023
Opening 29.03.2023, h. 18–21

Critical essay by Giovanna Manzotti
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Upcoming show in Milan

8 March 2023

Happy to announce that Tim Etchells and I are doing a 2-person show at Renata Fabbri in Milano, opening 29 March. The show, titled Same River Twice, will run until 3 June 2023 – put it on your list if you are coming to Milano for MiArt in April…

From the press release:

Stemming from a long-lasting collaboration between the two artists – both work and life partners – the show is structured as a close dialogue between Horvat’s new sculptural works and works on paper and Etchells’s new neon pieces.

Linked by their reciprocal interest in the processes of repetition and in the exploration of structures that both produce and eschew variation, the artists employ a range of different media, such as sculpture, performance, writing, drawing, photography and video. The title of the exhibition, Same River Twice, is a fragment of the expression “You can’t step in the same river twice” and speaks to Horvat and Etchells’s shared preoccupation with ideas around change, transformation and instability. It also evokes the flow and movement of nature, bodies, time and language, explored in different ways by the works on show.

Through the interaction of various materials, such as paper, textiles, ceramic, wood and cork, Horvat’s sculptural works refer to gestures of holding, joining and cradling and raise questions around protection, containment and mobility. In several of the works on paper she reworks the page as an object, dismantling and repairing it while materially recording the passing of time. Etchells’s new neon pieces extend his ongoing work on contradictory aspects of language, drawing attention to the speed, clarity and vividness with which it communicates narrative, image and ideas, and its simultaneous propensity to create rich fields of uncertainty and ambiguity.

The show will run until 3 June 2023.

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Works in progress for my Milan show

5 March 2023

This past week I’ve been in Milano, working with the amazing master ceramicist Massimiliano Pipolo in his Fornace Ceramics Lab.

Massimiliano is an incredible maker, expert technician and teacher and I had the best time working alongside him and his studio assistant Claudia on some new ceramic pieces that will form a part of a new body of work loosely based on the phases of the moon.

This new series is one of several new pieces I’ve been busy making for my upcoming show at Renata Fabbri in Milan. The show, titled Same River Twice, is a two-person exhibition with the most wonderful Tim Etchells 🙂 opening on 29th March.

The pieces are now in the drying stage… Looking forward to going back to Milano in a couple of weeks.

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Solo show in Bratislava

5 March 2023

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.

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Exhibition opening soon in Bratislava

27 February 2023

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.

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Artist instructions and scores

18 February 2023

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.

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The Čačak biennial

25 October 2022

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

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MUST SEE in Artforum ✿ ☺ ☼

22 September 2022

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Table Animals in Hamburg

11 September 2022

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

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Exhibition opening in Zagreb

4 September 2022

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.

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Table Animals at PACT

25 June 2022

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.

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Choreographic Devices at the ICA London

9 June 2022

Tomorrow! Friday, 10 June at 6pm at the ICA London:

I’m convening the opening session of Choreographic Devices – a 3-day symposium developed by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, and Edgar Schmitz, in dialogue with the ICA.

For my session I will be joined by 7 other artists looking at instances of dysfunctional spatial (and social) relations – in art and in life.

With these wonderful people: Augusto Corrieri, Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin & Bojana Janković), Edwina Ashton, Florian Roithmayr, Harun Morrison, Lara Pawson, Rebecca Moss.

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Around Apart Under Behind Through Ahead: A Partial Lexicon of Spatial Dysfunction
(Vlatka Horvat and invited guests)

Focused on rethinking built and social space as an inherently choreographic act, Vlatka Horvat’s A Partial Lexicon of Spatial Dysfunction brings the artist into dialogue with seven invited guests – artists, writers, performance makers – in an event that shifts dynamically between talks, readings, discursive presentations and performative actions. Interrogating the relation between space, objects and human interactions, especially at the point where spatial relations collapse or transform unexpectedly, Horvat’s unruly reflection on the spatial/choreographic in daily life both performs and at the same time elaborates theoretically on the ways in which normative spatial practice might be reordered to create new social, artistic and political possibilities.

Full symposium programme and booking here.

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PEER show recap

26 April 2022

My solo show at PEER closed recently. Thank you to all who visited, and extra thanks to all who left comments in the gallery book – it was really heartening to read.

What Is on the Ground and What Is in the Sky (2022). Detail.

Here’s the press roundup:

Interviews
Studio International (link) – Vlatka Horvat in conversation with Veronica Simpson
recessed.space (link) – Vlatka Horvat in conversation with Will Jennings

Reviews
artforum (link) – Review (critic’s pick) by Jonah Goldman Kay
Camera Austria (pdf) – Review by Orit Gat
Era Journal (link) – Reviewby Romilly Schulte

Featured lists
Artforum (link): MUST SEE
FAD magazine (link): The top 5 exhibitions by female artists – Micro feature by Tabish Khan
Evening Standard (link): “Culture in London: the faces to watch in 2022 – Visual art” – Feature by Ben Luke
a-n newsletter (link): “This month’s must-see exhibitions and events” – Feature by Ellen Wilkinson 
FAD magazine (link): The top 6 art books to read in spring 2022

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In conversation w Tim Etchells

25 April 2022

Evenings with WHW Akademija

Thinking Back to What You Said, Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat

Tim and I are in conversation as part of the public programme Evenings with WHW Akademija.

Details below and at this link, where you can also find the Zoom link. Today, Monday, 25 April, 7pm CET / 6pm UK time.

https://akademija.whw.hr/posts/thinking-back-to-what-you-said

The series of public events Evenings with WHW Akademija is continuing with the public online conversation Thinking Back to What You Said in which Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat exchange a series of fragmentary reflections on their own practice and that of other artists.

Conceived as a dialogue improvised inside a rule-based structure, the presentation involves the two artists speaking about their own and about each other’s projects, as well as about select works by other artists that continue to inspire or inform their own work. Thinking Back to What You Said is a conversation and an improvised essay, an attempt to speak about art practice in a form born out of it. It’s also a glimpse of the ongoing conversation between Etchells and Horvat, whose occasional collaborations on exhibitions, publications, and other kinds of projects are buttressed by a longstanding and continually evolving shared discourse about processes, art works and their relation to viewers.

You can watch the whole program here:

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By Hand, on Foot conversations part 2

25 March 2022

The second evening of artist conversations around seeing the city ‘otherwise’.

By Hand on Foot conversations, Part 2
Thursday, 24 March 6-8pm
at PEER
97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL

with Andy Field & Beckie Darlington, Maria Mahfooz, Rebecca Moss and Graeme Miller.

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Critics’ Pick review in Artforum

19 March 2022

By Hand, on Foot has been selected a Critics’ Pick on artforum.com. A great review of the show by Jonah Goldman Kay – in the press section here and on artforum.com.

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Review in Camera Austria

15 March 2022

By Hand, on Foot is reviewed in the new issue of Camera Austria. A generous reading of the show by Orit Gat – in the press section – here.

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By Hand, on Foot conversations Part 1

9 March 2022

Join us tomorrow, Thursday 10 March at PEER, for the first of two artist conversations around seeing the city ‘otherwise’. 6pm start.

By Hand on Foot conversations, Part 1
with Jemima Yong, Lucy Joyce, Tara Fatehi Irani and me.

PEER is at 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL.

Book here.

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By Hand, on Foot conversations

1 March 2022

In conjunction with my exhibition at PEER, I have invited seven artists, writers, and performance makers to join me in conversations exploring different ways of encountering, looking at, and imaginatively transforming, the spaces we occupy. The invited artists will each present a work of theirs that in some way speaks to these processes and concerns.

Themes explored in the invited artists’ projects and in my exhibition at PEER – especially the idea of seeing things ‘otherwise’ – will become starting points for the conversations, to reflect on our interaction with the city and its spaces, and consider how we might reimagine our relation to the urban landscape, to nature, and to people and communities.

Part 1: Thursday 10 March, 18:00 – 20:00
with Lucy Joyce, Jemima Yong, Tara Fatehi Irani and Vlatka Horvat

Part 2: Thursday 24 March, 18:00 – 20:00
with Andy Field, Graeme Miller, Lauren Elkin and Maria Mahfooz

Both events will take place at PEER.
Spaces are limited so please book in advance.

Event info and participant bios are here. And Eventbrite booking page is here.

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Interview in Studio International

24 February 2022

Really enjoyed talking with Veronica Simpson in the early days of my show at PEER. Our conversation was just published on Studio International here.

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Press for By Hand, on Foot

15 February 2022

Just before my show opened, I had a rich conversation with Will Jennings for recessed.space – a repository for writing about projects at the intersection of art and architecture – you can read it here. And there is a review of the show by Romilly Schulte in Era Journal here.

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TSSOM book is here!

30 January 2022

I could not be more excited to have the physical book in my hands! Advance copies arrived yesterday, with the rest of it due in tomorrow. It is SO pretty (and very chunky!).

Here’s T demonstrating:

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Press Preview: a-n

30 January 2022

“This month’s must-see exhibitions and events” by Ellen Wilkinson in a-n. Link here.

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Press Preview: Evening Standard

15 January 2022

Happy to be in such amazing company in this feature by Ben Luke in the Evening Standard. Link here.

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By Hand, on Foot opening 3 February 2022

12 January 2022

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.

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