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Solo exhibition opening in Zagreb

12 September 2023

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.

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Group exhibition at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art

6 August 2023

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

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To See Stars… in Times Literary Supplement

5 July 2023

I could not be happier that the amazing Lara Pawson wrote about my To See Stars over Mountains in the recent issue of TLS – Times Literary Supplement, in response to the question; “what art and literature can be, or do, in times of tension, conflict and destruction”.

Waiting for the hard copy to arrive in the post (or rather waiting to get back to London from Avignon so I can get my post) and in the meantime here’s a cheeky (and apparently very low res!) phone screen grab:

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Interview in arte e critica

4 July 2023

An interview with me by Francesca Pagliuca is out in the new (Summer 2023) issue of arte e critica. “You can’t step in the same river twice” – in both English and Italian. Will add a PDF to the press section as soon as I get my hands on a copy!

For now, just a screen grab of the cover and table of contents:

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New works from Coupling in Helsinki

21 June 2023

I have just uploaded the images of my new works, made for Coupling: Maarit Mustonen & Vlatka Horvat at PUBLICS in Helsinki. The show is on until 30 June and some documentation is on these pages:

Coupling – show documentation
Reinforcements – new version of my 2016 installation, always made in situ with locally sourced materials
New Concertina pieces in Stitched Works on Paper
Views (Remembered) – an experimental publication in the form of text decals on windows

I love this image I took through the window of the spaces inside and outside PUBLICS merging:

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Exhibition and event in Helsinki

30 May 2023

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.

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Group show at MSU Zagreb

30 May 2023

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

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Around About in Galerija Podroom

12 May 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.

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Ladder (I) in ‘The Book of Ladders’

12 May 2023

My work Ladder (I), 2009 is included in The Book of Ladders: 100 Contemporary Artworks by Adeline de Monseignat and Paul Carey-Kent.

The piece was made for, and first shown in, my solo show ‘Or Some Other Time’ at the Kitchen in NYC, curated by Matthew Lyons. Install images of the show are here.

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Mousse Magazine

12 May 2023

A great text by Giovanna Manzotti on Tim Etchells’s and my show at Renata Fabri in Milano in Mousse Magazine.

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Same River Twice – MUST SEE on Artforum

16 April 2023

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2-person exhibition opening in Zurich

12 April 2023

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

annex14Limmatstrasse 270
CH-8005 Zurich 
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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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