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☞ PiB Guide Nº60 MAY/JUNE 2025

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»SCAN«

Deni Horvatić

The photo exhibition SCAN at the nüüd.berlin gallery shows works by the Croatian artist Deni Horvatić for the first time in Germany.

In Horvatić’s life-size photographs of scenes from everyday life, the artist removes the distance between the environment and the portrayed by choosing a particular perspective: Shot from below, the images hide as much as they reveal, denying the viewer a glimpse of the part of the body we most immediately associate with identity – the face.

The best portraits give us the intimate feeling of being face to face with the person portrayed. But even in the most intimate embrace, the constraints of the physical world prevent us from fully uniting with that person; two bodies cannot command the same point in space.

Deni Horvatić overrides this in his SCAN project. Using a scanner-like camera, the artist records his subjects in such a way that the viewer is offered a point of view that he literally shares with the sitter: I see you from exactly where you are. By removing the distance between the bodies, the portraits in the SCAN series fulfil the fantasy of a complete merging of the viewer and the seen, which is actually impossible. At the same time, Horvatić’s chosen – sometimes fetish-like – motifs again create closeness and intimacy with the sitters. One thinks one is lying in bed with the closely entwined couple (“Bedroom 1/3”) or sweating in the sauna oneself (“Sauna 3/10”). In the “Locker Room” you want to quickly gather your sports clothes or get into the bath yourself (“Bath 6/8”). The pain of the fallen cyclist (“Accident 5/6”) is palpable and no one wants to get under the rotating blade of the lawn mower (“Accident 1/6”).

Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Locker room, 2020, C-print mounted on Dibond, 180 × 195 cm © Deni Horvatić
Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Accident 1-6, 2020, C-Print mounted on Dibond, 142 × 83 cm © Deni Horvatić
Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Accident 5-6, 2020, C-print mounted on Dibond, 180 × 197 cm © Deni Horvatić
Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Bedroom 1-3, 2020, C-Print mounted on Dibond, 220 × 168 cm © Deni Horvatić
Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Bath 6-8, 2020, C-Print mounted on Dibond, 230 × 100 cm © Deni Horvatić

Deni Horvatić

Deni Horvatić was born in 1991 in Čakovec, Croatia. He has been working with the Croatian fashion brand XD Xenia Design since 2019. He won the Marina Viculin Award for exceptional achievements in Croatian photography, established by the international photo organisation Organ Vida. In September 2020, the exhibition SCAN was shown at the Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia. In May/June 2022, he will participate in the 36th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the largest and most prestigious exhibition event for visual artists under 35 in Croatia. Deni Horvatić lives in Čakovec, Croatia, where he works as a visual artist.

nüüd.berlin gallery

June 3 — July 16, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2, 6 pm

Kronenstraße 18 · 10117 Berlin
[District: Mitte | Borough: Mitte]

Opening hours: Thu – Sat 1 – 7 pm, and by appointment: +49 1577 533 08 89

Admission free

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PiB Guide Nº59 MAR/APR 2025 © PiB ⸺ Photography in Berlin. COVER · TITELBILD: Simon Lehner, Balance study with boy, 2018. From the series »How far is a lightyear?«, 2005–2019. Pigment print, 90 × 72 cm. Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner. Part of EMOP Berlin’s main festival exhibition »what stands between us« at Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg in Berlin-Hansaviertel, read more on page 4 & 5! +++ 6 photos on right double page spread (p. 5), top left to bottom right: 1) © Johanna-Maria Fritz: o.T., 2022, aus der Serie “Ein afghanischer Teppich”, 2022. 2) © Bérangère Fromont, aus der Serie “Except the Clouds”, 2018. 3) © Inga Ivanova: Family Kassi 1965, aus der Serie “TANOE: Echos der Wurzeln”, 1965 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Color Printing Process RA-4. 4) © Kamila K Stanley: Avellar, Archivalischer Tintenstrahldruck. 5) © Rosalind Lowry: Endangered Species List 481, 2023, Pigment-Print (Installationsansicht; Leinen, Farbe), 78 x 58 cm. 6) © Lisa Wassmann: Sebiana Venice, Florida, 2024, aus der Serie “Somewhere Else”, 2007-2024, Courtesy Lisa Wassmann. +++ PiB Guide Editors / V.i.S.d.P. / Art Direction: Julia Schiller & Oliver Schneider

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