Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2024
Edit András, art historian, art critic, and curator is named the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Laureate. Irfan Hošić, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, and Natalija Vujošević receive the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grants.
2024 jury: Manuel Borja-Villel (art historian and curator, Madrid/Barcelona) • Ilona Németh (artist, curator, and professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Slovak University of Technology STU, Bratislava) • Angelika Richter (art historian, curator, and president of the Weißensee School of Art and Design, Berlin)
2024 nominators: Zbyněk Baladrán • Pavel Brăila • Sandra Bradvić • Dessislava Dimova • Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer • Zofia Nierodzińska • Adrian Paci • Eszter Szakács • Attila Tordai-S. • Māra Traumane
More info: https://award.igorzabel.org/
The award ceremony presenting the 2024 Igor Zabel Award and Grants recipients, happened on 29 November in Sokol House, Tabor in Ljubljana.
The main event was accompanied with the two-day seminar on 28 and 29 November 2024 at the Museum of Modern Art (MG+) in Ljubljana.
You can watch the recap of the Igor Zabel Award 2024 programme here.
2024 LAUREATE
Edit András, art historian, art critic, curator, and senior member of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History, Budapest, Hungary
The jury has awarded Edit András the 2024 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory in recognition of her exceptional contribution to counter-hegemonic discourses on Eastern European art and art history writing which underscores the importance of local conditions and specifics, and for her progressive and critical work as a (feminist) curator, researcher, and author. As a radical voice against autocracy, András is one of the most dedicated advocates of contemporary visual art and culture in Hungary and the wider region of Eastern and Central Europe.
2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Irfan Hošić, curator, critic, and artistic director of KRAK, Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The jury has awarded the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grant to Irfan Hošić in recognition of his inspirational ability to connect art, education, and community-building as well as his ability to propose new initiatives, manage them, and give them the necessary impetus to thrive and have an impact on the societies in which they operate.
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, philosopher and cultural theorist, curator, translator, editor, author, and educator, Romania/Denmark
The jury has awarded the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grant to Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu in recognition of his extraordinary ability to create connections across disciplines and geographies, his impressive opus of theoretical texts and public lectures which reflect a deep engagement with cultural and social issues, and his commitment to involving Eastern European artists in international cultural events.
Natalija Vujošević, artist and curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Cetinje, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
The jury has awarded the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grant to Natalija Vujošević in recognition of her significant research, historicization, activation, and contextualization of marginalized but globally unique art collections and archives from the socialist Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav periods.
Foto: Nada Žgank
The award has been conferred biennially since 2008 in cooperation with the initiator of the award, ERSTE Foundation (Vienna), and the Igor Zabel Association (Ljubljana).
Partners: ERSTE Foundation, MG+MSUM