Vlatka Horvat
Vlatka Horvat (Čakovec, Croatia, 1974) works across a wide range of forms, from sculpture, installation, drawing, collage and photography to performance, video, writing and publishing. Her practice investigates the precarious relationship between bodies, objects, the built environment and nature by reimagining and redrawing the physical, social, psychological and environmental boundaries experienced in our everyday lives. She is particularly drawn to what she thinks of as ‘problematic’ or dysfunctional set of relations, whereby things like balance or stability become compromised, and where the habitual function of objects is playfully messed with.
In her work Horvat frequently enacts reversals and inversions of established spatial and social order. She is interested in how things occupy, negotiate and share space, and how gestures of organizing and reorganizing spatial relations also perform a certain reordering of social dynamics. Horvat’s works tend to have a speculative or propositional quality, and frequently deal with the possibility of transformation and change. Many of her projects are organized around a set of self-imposed restrictions, a rule-based framework of sorts within which her investigations take place. The artist stages a meeting between her own system of rules and the open-ended, playful, improvisatory activity that she pursues inside it.
Vlatka Horvat lives and works in London, where she moved after spending twenty years in the US. She has had solo exhibitions at PEER, London (2022); GAEP Gallery, Bucharest (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2018); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2017); Museums Sheffield (2017); Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2016); CAPRI Raum, Düsseldorf (2016); Zak | Branicka Gallery, Berlin (2015 and 2011); MMC Multimedia Centre, Pula (2014); Galerija SC, Zagreb (2014); Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Oregon (2013); annex14, Zurich (2013 and 2012); Boston University Art Gallery (2012); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2012); Bergen Kunsthall (2011); The Kitchen, New York (2009); and Galerija Nova, Zagreb (2005). She has realized projects and installations for Kunsthalle Wien, Zurcher Theater Spektakel, 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), Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the 53rd October Salon (Belgrade), Stroom (The Hague), MoMA PS1 (NYC), MGLC and Galerija Skuc (both Ljubljana), Aichi Triennale (Nagoya) and the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Her performances have been commissioned by venues across Europe, North America and beyond. Upcoming projects in 2023 include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (with Tim Etchells); Phoinix, Bratislava (solo); annex14, Zurich (with Simon Callery); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (solo); and PUBLICS, Helsinki (solo, alongside Maarit Mustonen). She teaches in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins / University of the Arts, London.
Vlatka Horvat (Čakovec, Croatia, 1974) works across a wide range of forms, from sculpture, installation, drawing, collage and photography to performance, video, writing and publishing. Her practice investigates the precarious relationship between bodies, objects, the built environment and nature by reimagining and redrawing the physical, social, psychological and environmental boundaries experienced in our everyday lives. She is particularly drawn to what she thinks of as ‘problematic’ or dysfunctional set of relations, whereby things like balance or stability become compromised, and where the habitual function of objects is playfully messed with.
In her work Horvat frequently enacts reversals and inversions of established spatial and social order. She is interested in how things occupy, negotiate and share space, and how gestures of organizing and reorganizing spatial relations also perform a certain reordering of social dynamics. Horvat’s works tend to have a speculative or propositional quality, and frequently deal with the possibility of transformation and change. Many of her projects are organized around a set of self-imposed restrictions, a rule-based framework of sorts within which her investigations take place. The artist stages a meeting between her own system of rules and the open-ended, playful, improvisatory activity that she pursues inside it.
Vlatka Horvat lives and works in London, where she moved after spending twenty years in the US. She has had solo exhibitions at PEER, London (2022); GAEP Gallery, Bucharest (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2018); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2017); Museums Sheffield (2017); Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2016); CAPRI Raum, Düsseldorf (2016); Zak | Branicka Gallery, Berlin (2015 and 2011); MMC Multimedia Centre, Pula (2014); Galerija SC, Zagreb (2014); Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Oregon (2013); annex14, Zurich (2013 and 2012); Boston University Art Gallery (2012); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2012); Bergen Kunsthall (2011); The Kitchen, New York (2009); and Galerija Nova, Zagreb (2005). She has realized projects and installations for Kunsthalle Wien, Zurcher Theater Spektakel, 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), Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the 53rd October Salon (Belgrade), Stroom (The Hague), MoMA PS1 (NYC), MGLC and Galerija Skuc (both Ljubljana), Aichi Triennale (Nagoya) and the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Her performances have been commissioned by venues across Europe, North America and beyond. Upcoming projects in 2023 include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (with Tim Etchells); Phoinix, Bratislava (solo); annex14, Zurich (with Simon Callery); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (solo); and PUBLICS, Helsinki (solo, alongside Maarit Mustonen). She teaches in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins / University of the Arts, London.

- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Shapes), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, wood, acrylic gel, 19.7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Mesh), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, plastic mesh, acrylic gel, 19.7x26.5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Edges), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 2-ply cardboard, acrylic gel, 19.7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Sparkles), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, foam rubber, acrylic gel, 19.7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Insert), 2014Inkjet print mounted on box mount masonite, sand paper, acrylic gel, 19.7x25.5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (01), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (02), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (03), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (04), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (05), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (06), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (07), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Frame Painting (Felt Strip), 2018Wooden frame, felt, 37x39x5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Frame Painting (Felt Hole), 2018Wooden frame, felt, corrugated cardboard, 55x55x3.5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, That Takes Place of Another (01), 2013Inkjet print cutouts collage, framed: 63x49.5 cm / unframed: 58.4x45.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Set Right (Table Leg), Set Right (Tabletop), 2016Table Leg: Modified wooden table, corrugated cardboard, electrical tape, 72x79x55 cm
Tabletop: Modified wooden table, corrugated cardboard, electrical tape, 71.5x79x49 cm

- Vlatka Horvat,
- Tim Etchells


- Vlatka Horvat

- Vlatka Horvat
Feb 4- Apr 2, 2022
PEER Gallery, London, UK

- Vlatka Horvat
Sept 09– Oct 18, 2022
Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Curated by Ana Dević/WHW

- Vlatka Horvat
Mar 8 – Oct 4, 2020
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović) Laura Amann, Aziza Harmel (Curatorial assistants)

- Vlatka Horvat,
- Florian Roithmayr
Oct 4 – 7, 2018
Booth 15
Ambika P3
University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road, London
NW1 5LS