Vlatka Horvat's 'Echo Location' Opens at Swimming Pool, Sofia, as Part of Nine Elephants Festival

Key facts

• 'Echo Location' is Vlatka Horvat's first presentation in Bulgaria, held at Swimming Pool in Sofia.
• The exhibition opened the third edition of Nine Elephants, a summer festival for art in the urban environment.
• Nine Elephants took place across Sofia and its peripheries from July 9 to 19, 2026.
• This year's festival edition, titled 'Everything We Do', brought together more than 20 artistic projects.
• The festival explored the city through everyday actions, work, care, learning, and visible and invisible interactions shaping urban life.
• Horvat's installation 'Room/Rooms' uses ordinary construction materials to create a low half-wall echoing the gallery's architectural plan.
• 'Deep End' is installed at the bottom of the empty rooftop pool, using found mirrors of different shapes, sizes, and provenance.
• 'Ten Scores' is a new series of text-based works built on instructions, functioning as interactive 'scores'.
• The exhibition concludes with Horvat's 2021 video work 'Until the Last of Our Labours Is Done', featuring five performers near her London home.