Vlatka Horvat CV

VLATKA HORVAT
1974
Born in Cakovec, Croatia
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2009 PhD. Roehampton University. London, UK.
1997 MA (Performance Studies). Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.
1996 BA (Theater). Columbia College. Chicago, IL.
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING
Family Matters: The Family in British Art (group). Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery /
Museums Sheffield / Tate Britain / Laing Art Gallery Newcastle. Curated by Andrew Moore and
Harriet Godwin. (current)
I'm Over Here Now (group). Richmond Center for Visual Art at Western Michigan University.
Curated by Eric Gleason. (current)
I’d Like to Walk on the Moon (group). Bologna Arte Fiera and Galleria Enrico Astuni. Curated by
Lorenzo Bruni. (current)
The Social Contract. artefact (group). STUK. Leuven, Belgium. Curated by Pieter-Paul Mortier.
(cat.) (Feb 2012)
Rachel Uffner Gallery (solo). New York, NY. (April 2012)
Boston University Art Gallery (solo). Boston, MA. Curated by Kate McNamara. (Nov 2012)
Solo, 2-Person, 3-Person Exhibitions
Exhibitions & PROJECTS – SOLO, 2-PERSON, 3-PERSON
2011 Beside Itself (solo). Zak | Branicka. Berlin, Germany. (cat.)
Present Future (solo). artissima 18. Torino, Italy. Selected by Antonia Majaca. (cat.)
By Bending Back (solo). annex14. Bern, Switzerland.
As Opposed to the Front, Back, Top and Bottom (solo). Bergen Kunsthall NO5. Bergen, Norway.
(cat.)
2010 Over the Table. Aichi Triennale “Art and Cities.” A collaborative project (with Tim Etchells).
Nagoya, Japan. Curated by Emmanuelle de Montgazon. (cat.)
This Here and That There. An 8-hour performance. Outpost for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles,
CA.
Unhinged. A commissioned project for House Without a Maid, a project initiated by Simone
Aughterlony and Jorge Leon. Premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. Toured to
Alkantara festival in Lisbon, Tanz im August in Berlin, Biennale Bern, and Internationale Keuze
Rotterdam.
Take Space For Example: Vlatka Horvat, Sebastian Stumpf, Steve van den Bosch. Annex14
Gallery. Bern, Switzerland.
Metamorphoses: Error: Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Helpern, Vlatka Horvat. Braverman Gallery. Tel Aviv,
Israel.
Remodeling Systems: Vlatka Horvat, Pablo Helguera, Alon Levin. Hessel Museum @Bard CCS.
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Curated by Yulia Tikhonova.

2009 For Example. A project for the 11th Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive?
Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
Vlatka Horvat and Ana Prvacki. Artopia Gallery. Milan, Italy. Curated by Jovana Stokic.
This Here and That There. An 8-hour performance. Jetlag 02 @ PACT Zollverein. Essen,
Germany.
Or Some Other Time (solo). The Kitchen. New York, NY. Curated by Matthew Lyons.
Once Over. A performance. The Kitchen. New York, NY.
2008 Jennifer Cohen and Vlatka Horvat. Rachel Uffner Gallery. New York, NY.
Vlatka Horvat (solo). Battersea Arts Centre. London, UK.
Vlatka Horvat and Eva Weinmayr. The Front Room @ the Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis, MI. Curated by Anthony Huberman.
To Bring Down a House. A project for Home Works IV (with Tim Etchells). Sfeir-Semler
Gallery. Beirut, Lebanon. Curated by Christine Tohme. (cat.)
Interferences. A collaboration with Tim Etchells for ArtFutures. Contemporary Art Society
@ Bloomberg Space. London, UK.
Vlatka Horvat, Marlo Pascual and Lise Soskolne. White Columns. New York, NY.
Curated by Amie Scally.
2007 This Here and That There. A commissioned project for nomadic new york. The Haus der
Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Berlin, Germany. Curated by André Lepecki.
Vlatka Horvat: Loops. Little Jewel Cinema. Waygood Gallery. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
2006 Here To Stay. A commissioned project for The Peekskill Project. Hudson Valley Center
for Contemporary Art. Peekskill, NY.
Vlatka Horvat and Magda Thothova. 127 Henry. New York, NY. Curated by Bozidar
Brazda.
2005 Wrong Way (solo). Galerija Nova. Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by WHW.
Ten People Smiling. A performance for Performa 05 Biennial of Performance (with Tim
Etchells). Artists Space. New York, NY. (cat.)
Money For Nice. A commissioned project for Art+Money program (with Tim Etchells).
Victoria and Albert Museum. London, England. Curated by Laura Godfrey-Isaacs / home.
2003 Vlatka Horvat: Videos (solo). STUK Kunstencentrum. Leuven, Belgium.
Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat: Insults & Praises. Kulturhuset Stockholm. Stockholm,
Sweden.
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Exhibitions & Projects – GROUP
2011 Out of Left Field. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) Rijeka.
Curated by Jovana Stokic. (cat.)
No Network. 1 st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art. D-O ARK
Underground. Atomic shelter Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Curated by
Branko Dimitrijevic. (cat.)
Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully. Fort Asperen, Netherlands.
Curated by Bik van der Pol.
Passion of an Ornithologist. Myth Making. Part 1 of 5-part exhibition project
Galicia: Topographies of Myth. Gallery for Contemporary Art SOKOL. Nowy
Sacz, Poland. Curated by Adam Budak. (cat.)
Meaning Zero Degree: Non-functional, Non-presentational, Experimental and
Conceptual Photography. Art Pavilion Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by Sandra Križić
Roban, Ivana Hanaček & Irena Gessner.

In the future everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes. Part of East by South
West - curated_by vienna 2011. Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. Curated by Ana
Janevski. (cat.)
Invocations of the Blank Page. Spike Island. Bristol, UK. / NICC Antwerp,
Belgium. Curated by Frances Loeffler.
Vienna Art Fair. Zak | Branicka Foundation.
ROMA The Road to Contemporary Art 2011. Galleria Enrico Astuni. Rome, Italy.
Brussels Art Fair. annex 14. Brussels, Belgium.
MiArt fair. Galleria Enrico Astuni. Miami, Italy.
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book. Marlborough Chelsea. New York, NY.
If on a winter's day a traveler. Palazzo Podesta. Bologna, Italy. Curated by Julia
Draganovic.
Who is Your Audience? Galleria Enrico Astuni. Bologna, Italy. Curated by
Lorenzo Bruni. (cat.)
Displaced Divisions. Galerija SKUC. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Curated by Tevz Logar.
(cat.)
This Is My Reference. Bologna Art First. Galleria Enrico Astuni stand. Bologna,
Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Bruni. (cat.)
2010 FAQ Serbia. Austrian Cultural Forum. New York, NY. Curated by Branko
Dimitrijevic and Andreas Stadler. (cat.)
Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s. in MOVE: Choreographing
You. Hayward Gallery. London, UK. Co-curated by André Lepecki and Stephanie
Rosenthal.
Run and Tell That: New Work from New York. Syracuse University Art Galleries.
Syracuse, NY. Curated by Eric Gleason and David Prince. (cat.)
Scores No. 2: What Escapes. Tanzquartier Wien. Vienna, Austria. Curated by
Tim Etchells and TQW.
Artissima. Torino, Italy. annex14.
Greater New York. MoMA PS 1. Long Island City, NY. Curated by Klaus
Biesenbach, Connie Butler, and Neville Wakefield. (cat.)
The Jerusalem Show IV "Exhaustion." Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary
Art. Curated by Jack Persekian and Jumana Emil Abboud.
Natural Renditions. Marlborough Gallery. New York, NY. Curated by Diana
Campbell and Eric Gleason.
In the Backyard of Kings. Former military camp Kodra, Kalamaria. Thessaloniki,
Greece. Curated by Eirini Linardaki and Vincent Parisot. (cat.)
AbbaraKadabra. Mardin Biennial. Mardin, Turkey. Curated by Döne Otyam.
Clue(less): Geometry of Misunderstanding. Manifattura Tabacchi. Torino, Italy.
Curated by Branka Bencic and Lorena Tadorni.
T-HT Award exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Zagreb, Croatia.
Kiosk. Golden Parachutes Gallery. Berlin, Germany. Curated by David Horvitz.
Flying Circus Project. Phnom Penh / Siem Reap, Cambodia and Singapore.
Organized by Ong Keng Sen.
2009 Assises. Galerie Xippas. Paris, France.
Dear Countrymen and Women. Gallery MC. New York, NY. Curated by Jovana
Stokic.
Red Thread. A Prologue to the 11 th Istanbul Biennial. Project Space Tanas.
Berlin, Germany. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
We would like to thank (again) the curators who wish to remain anonymous.
Galerie Anne Barrault. Paris, France.
In a Room Anything Can Happen. CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art. Annandaleon-Hudson,
NY.
If You Don’t Know What the South Is, It’s Simply Because You Are From the
North. Galerija Nova. Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by WHW.

Artists and the Natural World. McKee Gallery. New York, NY.
Vlatka Horvat & Tim Etchells: Insults & Praises. Fusebox festival. Austin, TX.
This Is The Future Before It Happens. The Glendale College Art Gallery.
Glendale, CA. Curated by Julie Deamer.
Without Walls. Museum 52. New York, NY.
2008 For a Brief Time Only at a Location Near You. Various locations. A project by
David Horwitz.
Speaking Out Loud. Netherlands Media Art Institute. Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Curated by Susanne Jaschko.
8 1/2 x 11 / A4. James Fuentes Gallery. New York, NY.
God is in the Details. New Orleans Biennial extension. New Orleans, LA. Curated
by Glynnis McDaris and Julie Trotta.
In a Different Film: Contemporary Art from the Filip Trade Collection. 10th
Motovun Film Festival. Motovun, Croatia.
It’s Easy To Find. An exhibition in a PO Box. Elizaville Post Office. Elizaville, NY.
Curated by David Horwitz.
Duets/Duels. MMC Split. Split, Croatia. Curated by Brano Franceschi and Ana
Janevska. (cat.)
My Little/Membrane. NURTUREart Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Zeljka
Himbele-Kozul and William Heath.
Exquisite Corpus: Interacting with the Fragmented Body. Johnson Museum of Art
@ Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
Natural Obsessions. Neuhoff Gallery. New York, NY.
Energies and Shadows. HERE @ South Street Seaport. New York, NY. Curated
by Luisa Gui and Liutauras Psibilskis.
Yes No & Other Options. A collaborative project with Tim Etchells, commissioned
by the Henry Moore Foundation for Art Sheffiled 08. Millenium Galleries.
Sheffield, UK. Curated by Jan Verwoert. (cat.)
Cutaway. Anna Kustera Gallery. New York, NY.
Skipping the Page. The Center for Book Arts. New York, NY. Curated by Graham
Parker. (cat.)
2007 American Dream Sequence. Jerry Riggs. Miami, FL.
Black and White. IBID Projects. London, UK.
Monitor. Part of Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the
Marieluise Hessel Collection. CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art. Annandale-on-
Hudson, NY. Curated by Matthew Higgs.
Ground Lost. Galerija Nova. Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
e-flux Video Rental. Carpenter Center. Boston / Centre culturel suisse de Paris.
Paris / Lyon Biennale. Lyon, France.
2006 Ground Lost. Forum Stadtpark. Graz, Austria. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
Interplay: Four Emerging New York Artists. Exit Art. New York, NY.
Protections. Kunsthaus Graz. Graz, Austria. Curated by Adam Budak and
Christine Peters. (cat.)
Here and Now Real, Not Yet Concrete. Moderna Galerija/Museum of Modern Art.
Ljubljana, Slovenia. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
Thin Walls. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sara
Greenberger Rafferty.
Monument to Nikola Tesla. Galerija Nova. Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by WHW.
(cat.)
Wild Girls. Exit Art. New York, NY.
e-flux Video Rental. PiST. Istanbul, Turkey. / Arthouse at the Jones Center.
Austin, TX. / I Bienal de Canarias. Canary Islands. / Mucsarnok Kunsthalle,
Budapest. / Extra City. Brussels, Belgium.

The Beat. Haswellediger & Co. Gallery. New York, NY
Slow Revolution. Rotunda Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Patrick Grenier.
Insert. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Rijeka, Croatia.
2005 Situated Self: Confused, Compassionate and Conflictual. Museum of
Contemporary Art. Belgrade, Serbia / Helsinki City Museum. Helsinki, Finland.
Curated by Mika Hannula and Branko Dimitrijevic. (cat.)
AIM 25. The Bronx Museum of the Arts. The Bronx, NY. Curated by Lydia Yee.
(cat.)
Across the Seven Seas and Seven Hills. Hrvatski Foto Savez. Zagreb, Croatia.
Curated by Tihomir Milovac. (cat.)
Codependent. The Living Room. Miami Beach, FL. Curated by Isolde Brielmaier.
Insert. Museum of Contemporary Art @ Zagreb Art Fair Pavilion 19. Zagreb,
Croatia. Curated by Tihomir Milovac, Silva Kalčić, Antonia Majača and Branko
Franceschi (cat.)
e-flux Video Rental. e-flux. New York, NY / Kunst Werke. Berlin, Germany /
Portikus. Frankfurt, Germany / Manifesta Foundation. Amsterdam, the
Netherlands / The Moore Space. Miami, FL / Insa Art Space. Seoul, Korea.
2004 An Exhibition About Nature and Society. EXIT Contemporary Art Institute. Pejë,
Kosova. Curated by Erzen Shkololli.
Pilot 1. Limehouse Townhall. London, England.
Based on a True Story. Artists’ Space. New York, NY. Curated by Christian
Rattemeyer. (cat.)
Sexy. 44 th Porec Annale. Porec, Croatia. Curated by Janka Vukmir.
Side Effects. Museum of Contemporary Art. Belgrade, Serbia. & Galerija Nova.
Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by WHW. (cat.)
Between the Wars. Siemens Art Program. Stuttgart, Germany. Curated by
Joachim Gerstmeier.
Group Dynamics. Part of Zagreb – Cultural Capital 3000 Platform. Zagreb,
Croatia. (cat.)
Curatorial Projects (with Tim Etchells)
Nothing Good House. Project for a modular house in Protections. Kunsthaus Graz. Graz, Austria.
2006.
Around Narrative. One Take Film Festival – Kino Tuskanac. Zagreb, Croatia. 2004.
Homemade. 6-hour video program. Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm. Frankfurt, Germany. 2003.
Awards & Residencies
Nominated for the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2011. Berlin, Germany. 2011.
Rema Hort Mann Foundation visual art grant award. New York, NY. 2010.
Residency at Outpost for Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA. 2008/09.
Performance Bursary. Roehampton University. London, UK 2007 - 2008.
Live Art Bursary. Nottingham Trent University. Nottingham, UK. 2005 - 2007.
AIM 25 – Artist in Marketplace Program. The Bronx Museum for the Arts. The Bronx, NY. 2005.
Filip Trade Art Award Finalist. Zagreb, Croatia. 2005.
Residency at IASPIS – International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden.
2003.
Residency at STUK Kunstencentrum. Leuven, Belgium. 2003.