VLATKA HORVAT TO REPRESENT CROATIA AT 2024 VENICE BIENNALE

Čakovec, Croatia–born artist Vlatka Horvat has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024. The London-based artist investigates the relationship between the body and its physical surrounds through a multivalent practice that embraces sculpture, installation, drawing, collage, photography, performance, video, writing, and publishing.

Curated by art historian Antonia Majača, Horvat’s project for the pavilion, “By the Means at Hand,” will engage with the Biennale’s overarching theme of “Foreigners Everywhere.” The title of Horvat’s exhibition refers to the improvised transport systems used in Croatia and throughout the world whereby informal networks—of family members, friends, acquaintances, and strangers—are activated to facilitate the delivery of letters, parcels, and currency to people living far from their home countries. The project additionally examines the concept of “home” as it pertains to the diaspora and to the peripatetic lifestyle fostered and in some cases necessitated by contemporary conditions. The pavilion will feature an accumulating exhibition of works by numerous artists living “as foreigners” across the globe, whose contributions will arrive in Venice via informal networks of the type limned above. Horvat will remain in residency at the pavilion throughout the duration of the Biennale.