Dr Vlatka Horvat

Biography

Vlatka Horvat is an artist working across a wide range of forms, including sculp¬ture, installation, drawing, collage, photography, performance and publication. Her work focuses on reconfiguring space and spatial/social relations at play in it, and probes the precarious relationship between bodies, objects, materials, the built environment and landscape. At the centre of her projects is an exploration of the dynamics between the subject and the context, and an interest in the possibilities and problematics of inhabiting space – social space, physical space, psychological space.

Vlatka’s work is presented in a variety of contexts – in museums and galleries, in theatre and dance festivals and in public space.

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Selected outputs

Exhibitions:
PEER London, MoMA PS1 (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Wilfried Lentz (Rotterdam), Museums Sheffield, Oregon Contemporary (Portland), Ber¬gen Kunsthall, the Kitchen (NYC), The Showroom (London), Boston University Art Gallery, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Galerija SKUC (Ljubljana), CAPRI Kunstraum (Düsseldorf), White Columns (NYC).

Project commissions:
Kunsthalle Wien, the Pavilion of Croatia at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, VOLT (Bergen), Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (NY), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), Marta Herford Museum (Herford), the 53rd October Salon (Belgrade), Stroom (The Hague), Aichi Triennale (Nagoya), Witte de With (Rotterdam), the 11th Istanbul Biennale.

Performance commissions:
LIFT – London International Festival of Theatre, KAAI Studios (Brussels), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Fondation Cartier (Paris), KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hannover), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Chicago Cultural Center, Malta Festival (Poznan), Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon), Outpost for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Meteor Festival (Bergen), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Frascati (Amsterdam), INKONST (Malmo), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon), Clockshop (Los Angeles), the Jerusalem Show (Jerusalem and Ramallah).

Public space commissions:
Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich), The 2nd Industrial Art Biennial – Rijeka Cultural Capital of Europe (the Istrian Penninsula); Art in Public Space programme of the City of Zürich.

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Selected research activities

Residencies:
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago), Chicago Cultural Center, Clockshop (Los Angeles), SoART (Austria), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Outpost for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), IASPIS (Stockholm), Istanbul biennial.

Discursive events:
Yale University School of Drama, ICA London, Museums Sheffield, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Royal Academy Senate Room, Performance Studies international conference, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, mama Zagreb, VOLT Bergen, The University of Sheffield.

Artist talks:
Kunshtalle Wien, Academy of Art Tromsø, Boston University, Sheffield Hallam University, Paris Photo, Bergen Kunsthall, Hessel Museum at Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Columbia University, SAIC, Aichi Art Museum (Nagoya), Amherst College, Yale University.

Visiting artist and other teaching engagements:
WHW Akademija, The Slade School of Art, University of Reading, Bard CCS – Center for Curatorial Studies, SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, KABK – The Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Camberwell, Palestinian International Art Academy.

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Vlatka’s work is held in institutional collections and has been the subject of book chapters and articles in scholarly publications and in catalogues accompanying large museum exhibitions.
Industry publications that have published features, interviews, and reviews of her work include frieze, Artforum, Art Review, Art Monthly, Modern Painters, Flash Art, Arte e Critica, Museums Journal, Dance Theatre Journal, Studio International, alongside The New York Times, the Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, The Financial Times, etc.