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SELECTED REVIEWS, FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS
Copyright: the authors, for all texts downloadable here.
2024
By the Means at Hand: A Reader (link / pdf) – April 2024: A conversation between Antonia Majaca and Vlatka Horvat plus 11 newly commissioned texts on Vlatka Horvat’s practice / Venice Biennale project.
Financial Times (link) – October 2024: “Beyond the Giardini and the Arsenale: five Venice Biennale shows across the city to catch now.” Venice Biennale highligts by Jo-Ann Titmarsh.
The Guardian (link) – April 2024: “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Review of the Venice Biennale by Adrian Searle.
Art Review (link) – April 2024: “Vlatka Horvat on Representing Croatia at the 60th Venice Biennale.” Interview.
Metropolis M Magazine (link) – April 2024: “Empowerment, Will, and Wit – Venie Biennale Pavilions.” Best pavilions review by Katia Krupennikova.
ARTnews (link) – April 2024: “The 10 Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale” by Alex Greenberger.
Frieze (link) – April 2024: “The Unmissable Off-site Exhibitions in Venice.” Editors’ recommendations – by Vanessa Peterson.
The Art Newspaper (link) – April 2024: “Venice Biennale 2024: the must-see pavilions around town” by The Art Newspaper editors.
Art Basel (link) – April 2024: “Editors picks: Best Venice pavilions” by Art Basel editors.
Evening Standard (link) – April 2024: “Venice Biennale: Our picks of the shows to see in Venice.” Critic’s picks by Elizabeth Gregory.
Finestre sull arte (link) – April 2024: “Venice Biennale 2024: The top 10 best pavilions.”
Contemporary Lynx (link) – April 2024: “Guide To the Most Interesting Events in Biennale Arte 2024.”
Artlyst (link) – April 2024: “60th Venice Biennale Twelve Essential Highlights.” by Nico Kos Earle.
Stirworld (link) – April 2024: “Why all the art for the Croatia Pavilion is being hand delivered.” Feature by Eleonora Ghedini.
Artribune (link) – April 2024: “10 best pavilion at the Venice Biennale.” (in Italian).
Kulturpunkt (link) – April 2024: Vlatka Horvat interview: “Naš pristup nacionalnom paviljonu namjerno je pogrešan.” Interview with Martina Kontošić and Ivana Pejić (in Croatian).
Contemporary Lynx (link) – May 2024: “Guide to the Most Interesting Events in Biennale Arte 2024” by Antoni Konieczny.
Il Giornale dell’arte (link) – May 2024: “BIENNALE ARTE 2024 | I Padiglioni in città: il mondo sarà verde.” Best pavilions selection by Camilla Bertoni.
The Globe and Mail (link) – May 2024: “Eight must-see exhibits at the 2024 Venice Biennale.” by Kate Taylor.
Contemporary Lynx (link) – June 2024: “By the Means at Hand: An Interview with Vlatka Horvat” by Aleksandra Mainka-Pawłowska.
Beautiful Eccentrics (link) – July 2024: “Strange Smiles and Ardent Reason.” Essay by Pablo Helguera.
e-flux (link) – March 2023: Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale announcement.
2023
Artforum news (link) – September 2023: Vlatka Horvat to represent Croatia at 2024 Venice Biennale.
MCA Zagreb (pdf eng / hr) – September 2023: My texts framing the exhibition Good Company (in English and Croatian).
Arte e Critica – Spring/Summer 2023: “You can’t step in the same river twice.” Interview with Francesca Pagliuca (in Italian and English).
Times Literary Supplement (pdf) – May 2023: Short text on To See Stars over Mountains by Lara Pawson.
Mousse Magazine (link / pdf) – May 2023: Critical text accompanying Same River Twice: In the Nooks of Time and Space, in the Crannies of Language by Giovanna Manzotti. Italian and English versions available here.
2022
artforum.com (pdf / link) – March 2022: Critic’s pick review of By Hand, on Foot at PEER by Jonah Goldman Kay.
Camera Austria (pdf) – March 2022: Review of By Hand, on Foot at PEER by Orit Gat.
To Break Open the Daily: Vlatka Horvat’s Photographic Infraordinary (pdf) – Feb 2022: Essay on To See Stars over Mountains.
Studio International (link) – Feb 2022: “Vlatka Horvat – Interview.” In conversation with Veronica Simpson.
recessed.space (link) – Feb 2022: “Vlatka Horvat’s collages landscapes.” In conversation with Will Jennings.
SEEcult.org (link) – November 2022: Guided video tour of Gestures, Signs of Life – the 31st Nadežda Petrović Memorial. The segment on my work starts at 14:40 (in Serbian).
Novosti (link) – October 2022: “Labours and resistance.” Review of Artistic Ecologies Every Day by Jelena Pašić (in Croatian).
vizkultura (link) – June 2022: In conversation with Jelena Pašić (in Croatian).
Evenings with WHW Akademija (link) – April 2022: Thinking Back to What You Said: a dialogue with the artist Tim Etchells.
Era Journal (link) – Feb 2022: Review of By Hand, on Foot at PEER by Romilly Schulte.
Vijenac Literary Magazine (link) – Feb 2022: Feature on By Hand, on Foot by Flora Turner-Vučetić (in Croatian).
Evening Standard (pdf / link) – Jan 2022: “Culture in London: the faces to watch in 2022 – Visual art.” Feature by Ben Luke.
a-n (pdf / link) – Jan 2022: “This month’s must-see exhibitions and events” by Ellen Wilkinson.
Hackney Citizen (link) – Jan 2022: Preview of By Hand, on Foot at PEER by Lizzie McAllister.
2020
ArtPyre (link) – Nov 2020: “Vlatka Horvat: Listening to What the Objects Want.” Feature by Ian Pedigo.
Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 by Maja and Reuben Fawkes. World of Art series. Thames & Hudson, 2020.
Something Former: A conversation between Goran Vodicka and Vlatka Horvat (pdf) – in Invisible Wounds, Negotiating Post-Traumatic Landscapes, eds. Emily-Rose Baker & Amanda Crawley Jackson. The University of Sheffield & Museums Sheffield, 2020.
Camera Austria (pdf) – Sept 2020: Review of …of bread, wine, cars, security and peace at Kunsthalle Wien by Walter Seidl.
Revista—ARTA magazine (link) – August 2020: “Resilience Test: The Body Measuring the World.” Feature by Gabriela Pițurlea.
Starting from the Body: A conversation between me and the curator Tevz Logar (vimeo) – August 2020
Art Asia Pacific (pdf) – July / August 2020: Review of …of bread, wine, cars, security and peace at Kunsthalle Wien by Brian Haman.
Spike Art Magazine (pdf / link) – July 2020: “Days of Wine and Roses.” Review of …of bread, wine, cars, security and peace at Kunsthalle Wien by Max Henry.
Kunsthalle Wien podcast of me talking about my new works in …of bread, wine, cars, security and peace (soundcloud / YouTube) – May 2020
They Haven’t Met Before… In conversation with the performance maker Silvia Costa (YouTube) – May 2020
2019
Artforum (pdf / link) — April 2019: Review of Supporting Objects at Eastwards Prospectus by Daria Ghiu.
2018
artnet (link) — Oct 2018: “5 Emerging Artists to Watch at Sunday, Frieze’s Gallery-Led Satellite Fair.” Text by Javier Pes.
The Financial Times (link) – Oct 2018: “Frieze satellite fairs reviewed — Sunday and Moniker.” Review of Sunday Art Fair, London by Rachel Spence.
frieze (pdf) – Oct 2018: Review of the 2nd Industrial Art Biennial by Biljana Ciric.
MojaRijeka.hr portal (YouTube link) – July 2018: Video segment on Vlatka Horvat: Who Come to Stand at the 2nd Industrial Art Biennial, Istria (in Croatian).
ArchDaily (link) – June 2018: “Cloud Pergola: The Croatian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale.” Feature by Kaley Overstreet.
Rezervoar korespondencija (link / pdf) – June 2018: “Svijet iza nas.” Review by Klaudio Štefančić of Vlatka Horvat: Extensions at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (in Croatian).
DRY Magazine (pdf / pdf text only) – Feb 2018: “Vlatka Horvat: About Hybridization and Hiding Spots.” Feature by Bianca Baroni.
Elle magazine (pdf) – Feb 2018: “Tri lica umjetnica: Andreja Kulunčić, Vlatka Horvat, Hrvoslava Brkušić.” Feature by Ana Fazekaš (in Croatian).
2017
artforum.com (link / pdf) – Dec 2017: Critics’ pick review of Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan by Maria Chiara Valacchi.
ATP Diary (link) – Dec 2017: Interview with Elena Bordignon about Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan (in Italian and English).
Musecontemporanee (link) – Nov 2017: Review of Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan (in Italian) by Leda Lunghi.
Didaskalije Theater Journal (pdf) – May 2017: “Bezdomne planety.” Essay by Katarzyna Torz on Vlatka Horvat: Minor Planets at HAU Berlin (in Polish).
Utopian Realities at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (pdf / link) – Jan 2017: Interview with Annemie Vaneckere about Vlatka Horvat: Minor Planets at HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
Minor Planets program (pdf) – Jan 2017: Interview with Tim Etchells about Vlatka Horvat: Minor Planets.
Lektoratur at HAU Berlin. (link) – Jan 2017: “Don’t Lose the Anger.” Interview with Renata Britvec about Vlatka Horvat: Minor Planets at HAU Berlin.
Die Freitag (link) – Jan 2017: Review of Vlatka Horvat: Minor Planets at HAU Berlin (in German).
The Yorkshire Post (link / pdf) – Jan 2017: “A New Perspective.” Feature on Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
Sheffield Telegraph (pdf) – Feb 2017: “Collectors’ Items Seen in New Light.” Feature by Ian Soutar on Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
The Star (link) – Feb 2017: ‘Spotlight on what lies behind the scenes at city museums.” Feature by Julia Armstrong on Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
The Guardian (pdf) – Feb 2017: Preview by Skye Sherwin of Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
Apollo magazine (link) – March 2017: “This Human Act of Paying Attention.” Feature by Katy Barrett on Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
The Quietus (link) – March 2017: “Slated and Curated.” Review by Sam Gregory of Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
art daily (link) – Jan 2017. Preview of Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: What Can Be Seen at Museums Sheffield.
Vlatka Horvat 15e Congrès extraordinaire: Paris (link) – May 2017. Interview with me (with excerpts from the work) at Fondation Cartier, Paris.
Theaterkrant (link) – April 2017: Review by Moos van den Broek of Vlatka Horvat: 15th Extraordinary Congress: Amsterdam at Frascati (in Dutch).
Mouvement magazine (link) – March 2017: Interview with Lucie Combes about Vlatka Horvat: 15th Extraordinary Congress (in French).
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (link) – March 2015: Review by Stefan Lüddemann of Vlatka Horvat: Beginnings Marathon at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (in German).
2016
Stedelijk Studies Journal (pdf / link) – Jan 2016: “Putting out the chairs: Performing the missing public.” Essay by Joe Kelleher on Vlatka Horvat: This Here and That There (Poznan) and 15th Extraordinary Congress: Poznan at Malta Festival.
CAPRI Dusseldorf (link) – March 2016: Text by Gesine Borcherdt on Vlatka Horvat: In Suspension at CAPRI Dusseldorf.
2015
Horizonte dacena (link): Text by Julia Guimarães on Vlatka Horvat: 15th Extraordinary Congress: Lisbon at Teatro Maria Matos (in Portugese).
Kultura u podstaw (link) – June 2015: Review by Kuba Wojtaszczyk of Vlatka Horvat: 15th Extraordinary Congress: Poznan at Malta Festival (in Polish).
Kaai Theatre publication (pdf): Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells in conversation about Vlatka Horvat: 15th Extraordinary Congress: Brussels at KAAI studios.
frieze (pdf / link) – May 2015: Review by Keren Goldberg of Vlatka Horvat: Immeasurables at Zak|Branicka, Berlin.
Taz die Tageszeitung (link) – March 2015: Mini-review of Vlatka Horvat: Immeasurables (in German).
2014
Croatian Radio 3 – Dec 2014: Text by Evelina Turković for “Picture of Sound” program of visual artist commissions.
SC Zagreb catalogue: “Precarious Forms.” Text by Branka Benčić on Vlatka Horvat: According to Plan at Galerija SC, Zagreb.
Zarez (pdf) – Nov 2014: Review by Josipa Bubaš of Vlatka Horvat: According to Plan at Galerija SC, Zagreb (in Croatian).
Croatian Radio 3: Triptih (link) – Nov 2014: Review by Irena Bekić of Vlatka Horvat: According to Plan at Galerija SC, Zagreb (in Croatian).
IKON Arts Foundation (pdf / link) – June 2014: “Space and the Body: The work of Vlatka Horvat.” Feature by Elaine Ritchel.
2013
Disjecta catalogue (pdf): Interview with Summer Guthery about Vlatka Horvat: Excavations and Other Claims at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland.
The Oregonian/Oregon Live (link) – Dec 2013. Review by John Motley of Vlatka Horvat: Excavations and Other Claims at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland.
Art Review (pdf) – March 2013: Review by Sara Arrhenius of the 53rd October Salon, Belgrade.
Zueritipp (pdf) – May 2013: Review by Anna Francke of Vlatka Horvat: Fault Lands at annex14, Zurich (in German).
PAJ Journal (pdf) – Sept 2013: Feature by Agnieszka Gratza on Expanded Performance at Stroom Den Hague.
Trend Visions (link): Short feature on Vlatka Horvat: Up in Arms.
2012
The Boston Globe (pdf / link) – Nov 2012: “Bringing Energy and Anxiety into Pristine Place.” Review by Kate McQuaid of Vlatka Horvat: Also Called: Backbone, Anchor, Lifeline at Boston University Art Gallery.
Frakcija (pdf ENG / pdf HRV) – Sept 2012: “Mergers, Removals, Evacuations: Reordering and Reconstituting Image in Collage.” Essay by me on my collage works (in English and Croatian).
Flash Art (pdf) – July Aug Sept 2012: Short conversation with Agnieszka Gratza for Flash Art’s “Brand New” feature.
Time Out New York (pdf / link) – June 2012: Review by Michael Wilson of Vlatka Horvat: Unleveling at Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC.
The Morning News (link): Images of Hybrids accompanying “The year that was and wasn’t.”
zarez (pdf) – Feb 2012: “Ephemeral Materials in a Dialogue with the Exhibition Space.” Feature review by Ana Dević of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in Croatian).
artnet.de (pdf / link) – Jan 2012: “Still, Aber Nicht Sprachlos.” Review by Gesine Borcherdt of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in German).
Berlin Poche (pdf) – Jan 2012: “Silence des espaces infinis.” Mini-review by Mathilde Ramadier of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in French).
Performance Research Journal 17.1: On Failure (link). Edited by Margaret Werry and Roisin O’Gorman. Taylor & Francis, 2012. ISSN: 1352-8165. Cover image and artist pages.
2011
Berliner Zeitung (pdf / link) – Dec 2011: “Der Reiz des Gewoehnlichen.” Review by Beate Scheder of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in German).
Der Tagesspiegel (pdf / link) – Dec 2011: “Dübel & Socken.” Review by Claudia Wahjudi of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in German).
Tip-Berlin (pdf / link) – Dec 2011: Mini-review of Vlatka Horvat: Beside Itself at Zak|Branicka Gallery, Berlin (in German).
Mutations: Perspectives on Photography (pdf / link) – Nov 2011. Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Steidl in association with Paris Photo. “Body Parts Body.” Essay on my work by Natasa Petresin-Bachelez.
Zak|Branicka catalogue (pdf) – Nov 2011: PDF of catalogue, including “A Note on Temporal Parts and Their Discontents.” Essay by Antonia Majača.
Domus magazine (link) – Nov 2011: Video interview with Loredana Mascheroni about Present Future: Vlatka Horvat at artissima 18, Torino.
modernedition.com (link) – Feb 2011: Feature.
A talk I gave about my work at Bergen Kunsthall (vimeo) – Feb 2011.
Kunstkritikk (link) – Jan 2011. “Space Invader.” Review by Arne Skaug Olsen of Vlatka Horvat: As Opposed to the Front, Back, Top and Bottom at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (in Norwegian).
Bergen Kunsthall catalogue (pdf / link) – Jan 2011: 13 essays from Vlatka Horvat: In Other Words In Other’s Words And Other Words. Essays by: Nuit Banai, Emma Cocker, Tim Etchells, Naomi Fry, Hugo Glendinning, Matt Keegan, Tevž Logar, Matthew Lyons, Graham Parker, November Paynter, Christian Rattemeyer, Jovana Stokić, WHW.
BBC News (link): “Bosnia nuclear bunker tranformed into art gallery.”
Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (link). Edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh. Ashgate Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0754669746. Cover image + “Over and over, again ad again,” essay on my work by Emma Cocker. pp. 267-294.
2010
Arte e Critica (pdf / link) – Dec 2010: “Reorganising and Reimagining Space.” Interview with Lorenzo Bruni (in Italian and English).
Greater New York 2010 catalogue (link). By Klaus Biesenbach, Neville Wakefield, Cornelia Butler. MoMA PS1, 2010. ISBN: 978-0984177622
Run and Tell That! catalogue (pdf) – Nov 2010: “Spatial Matters.” In conversation with Eric Gleason.
zarez (pdf) – Oct 2010: “Without Rhyme or Reason.” Essay by Emma Cocker on Vlatka Horvat: This Here and That There.
The Guardian (pdf / link) – Oct 2010: “Learning Your Lines.” Column on performance by Tim Etchells about Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: Over the Table at Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan.
ForYourArt (pdf / link) – July 2010: Interview with Julie Deamer about This Here and That There (Los Angeles) at Outpost for Contemporary Art, LA.
Artline Kunstportal (pdf / link) – Review by Annette Hoffmann of Take space for example at annex14, Bern.
LA Times Culture Monster (link) – Aug 2010. “Rearranging chairs in the LA river.” Feature on This Here and That There (Los Angeles) at Outpost for Contemporary Art, LA.
La Republica (link) – “Clueless, piccole nevrosi quotidiane.” Review by Marina Paglieri of Clueless at Manifattura Tabacchi (in Italian).
Failure. Documents of Contemporary Art series (link). Edited by Lisa LeFeuvre. MIT/Whitechapel, 2010. ISBN 978-0262514774. Essay by Emma Cocker. pp 154-165.
2009
Flash Art (pdf) – Oct 2009: Review by Angela Maderna of Ana Prvacki and Vlatka Horvat at Artopia, Milan (in Italian).
Hurriyet Daily (link) – Sept 2009: “Horvat’s escape from the frame of the body.” Profile by Marzena Romanowska of Vlatka Horvat: For Example at the 11th Istanbul Biennial.
Art Monthly (pdf) – May 2009: Feature/profile by Graham Parker.
Dance Theatre Journal (pdf) – April 2009: “Flagging Possibilities.” In conversation with Emma Cocker.
Artillery (pdf) – March 2009: Featured review by Marc Orange of Vlatka Horvat: Or Some Other Time at the Kitchen, NYC.
Brooklyn Rail (pdf / link) – Feb 2009: Review by Shane McAdams of Vlatka Horvat: Or Some Other Time at the Kitchen, NYC.
NY Art Beat (pdf / link) – Jan 2009: “At the Kitchen Table.” Review by Jonah Lowenfeld of Vlatka Horvat: Or Some Other Time at the Kitchen, NYC.
Jutarnji list (pdf) – Jan 2009: “Vlatkina kuhinja.” Mini interview (in Croatian).
2008
ARTslant.com (link) – Dec 2008: “Gone Body Gone.” Review by Will Rawls of Jennifer Cohen and Vlatka Horvat at Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC.
artforum.com (pdf / link) – Nov 2008: Critic’s Pick review by Lumi Tan of Jennifer Cohen and Vlatka Horvat at Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC.
Interface (pdf / link) – Nov 2008: Featured review by Emma Cocker of Vlatka Horvat: New Works at Battersea Art Centre, London.
This Is That (pdf / link) – July 2008: Interview with Johanna Reed.
Akimblog (pdf / link) – Nov 2008: Review by Julia Dault of Jennifer Cohen and Vlatka Horvat at Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC.
Curating Discourse (pdf / link) – March 2008: Review by Sophie Risner of Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: Insult & Praises and Threats & Promises at Art Sheffield.
2007
Modern Painters (pdf) – May 2007: “Introducing: Vlatka Horvat.” Feature by Nuit Banai.
2005
“Kolebljivi video-subjekt Vlatke Horvat.” (pdf): Essay by Diana Nenadić (in Croatian).