Artist Name: Joan Horrach
Residency Dates: September – November 2025
Born: 2002
Hometown: Mallorca, Spain
Lives & Works: London, United Kingdom
URL: Instagram @horrach.joan
Education:
Graduating in 2025 – Masters in Contemporary art practice at Royal College Of Art, London
2023 – FD/BA (Hons) Degree in Contemporary Dance and Choreography, Rambert School, London, UK
Bio/Statement:
Joan Horrach’s practice unfolds at the intersection of choreography, video, drawing, performance, and text. The body frequently appears in the work as the principal narrative tool and medium for communication, exploring how physical gestures can produce metaphor, symbolism, and critical intent. With a background in movement and choreography, Joan Horrach began developing work across London and New York under the mentorship of Marina Abramović.
Works such as Somehow, Elsewhere have appeared in both institutional contexts—such as the Tate Modern (May 2024)—and in everyday environments such as offices, waiting rooms, and public walkways, inserting invented scenarios into the fabric of daily life. Through these distortions, the work aims to engage directly with themes of labour, dislocation, systemic conditions, and isolation within contemporary life.
His work has been exhibited at institutions such Maximilian Williams Gallery, London, 2025 (Somehow, Elsewhere Tate Modern); Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, 2024 (The management of insignificance); Yorkton Workshops, London, 2024 (Gazes Lost In The Distance, Solo exhibition). Joan Horrach has performed for other artists such as Candela Capitán across Somerset House, London (2025), Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2024), Centre Conde Duque, Madrid (2023), Spazio Maiocchi x GUCCI, Milan (2023).
