Vlatka Horvat

Vlatka Horvat (b. 1974, Croatia) lives and works in London and New York. She works across a wide range of contexts and areas, namely sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, photography and text. Her projects often focus on re-arranging or reconfiguring objects, built space and social relations at play in it. Vlatka holds a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago (1996), an MA in Performance Studies from Northwestern University (1997), and a practice-based PhD from Roehampton University in London (2009). In 2010 she was one of the recipients of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation visual art award (New York).

Her recent solo exhibitions include Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (Portland), Boston University Art Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall and The Kitchen (New York). Recent commissioned projects include installations for Marta Herford Museum, the 53rd October Salon (Belgrade), artissima 18 (Torino), Stroom (The Hague), “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1 (New York), Galerija Skuc (Ljubljana) and the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Vlatka’s performances have been presented at PACT Zollverein (Essen), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon), Tanzquartier Wien, Outpost for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Jerusalem Show, Aichi Triennale (Nagoya, with Tim Etchells). Recent group exhibitions include Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Camera Austria (Graz), Sies + Höke Gallery (Düsseldorf), Hessel Museum @Bard CCS (New York) and many other galleries and public institutions.