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Open call for critic-in-residence programme 2025
MGLC Švicarija in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, both based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, invites art historians, art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during September 2025.
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Shaping Revolutionary Memory: On the Trouble with Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia and Beyond
A discussion around the book Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia with the editors and authors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc, moderated by Nanne Buurman on Saturday, 18 January 2025, at 16:00 in Berlin.
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Igor Zabel Award 2024 / Award Ceremony
Join us at this year’s ceremony presenting the 2024 Igor Zabel Award and Grants recipients, on 29 November at 20:30 in Sokol House, Tabor in Ljubljana.
Edit András, art historian, art critic, and curator from Budapest is named this year’s Igor Zabel Award Laureate. Irfan Hošić, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, and Natalija Vujošević receive the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grants.
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Igor Zabel Award 2024 / Seminar
The Igor Zabel Award 2024 will be accompanied by a two-day seminar taking place on 28 and 29 November at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Recipients of this year’s Igor Zabel Award and Grants will present their work and, more broadly, discuss how art and theory from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe can contribute to the world in these times of exacerbating crises.
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FOREST ENCOUNTERS
01.01.2023The project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between partners from Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, and beyond, and aims to develop a multifaceted understanding of diverse values, meanings, challenges, and perspectives related to forest. Bringing together the disciplines of art, forestry, and the humanities, the project approaches the forest as a site where we can explore ecology and interconnectedness but also as a site of diverse and often conflictual policies, and social, cultural, and economic practices.
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ART FOR COLLECTIVE USE
05.10.2015A long-term programme organized in collaboration with Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. This multiyear programme focuses on art that is created for communal use, acceptance, experience, or rituals and that is usually displayed in the public space.
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ECOLOGIES OF CARE
06.05.2021This collaborative programme focuses on interdependencies in care as ethico-political and corpo-material relations, and pay special attention to new modes of art and cultural practice that enable meaningful social and environmental encounters.
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IGOR ZABEL AWARD: ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME
08.12.2016Accompanying events of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.
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Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
Editors: Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti ŽerovcThe publication presents a comprehensive overview of the production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People's Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution.
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Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
Igor ZabelThis catalogue presents the exhibition Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place) curated by Igor Zabel at Ljubljana’s Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art in 1997 and at the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1998.
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When Attitudes Become the Norm
Beti ŽerovcŽerovc examines curatorship in its broader social, political and economic contexts, as well as in relation to the profound changes that have taken place in the art field over the last century.
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Extending the Dialogue
Editors: Urška Jurman, Christiane Erharter and Rawley GrauThe book offers a collection of urgencies and agencies in art history, art writing, and art and cultural production from across this cultural and political geography.
