Within the framework of the European cooperation project Forest Encounters – the leading partner of which is the Igor Zabel Association – we are organizing an international symposium and exhibition by Polonca Lovšin in Ljubljana.
You are kindly invited to participate in the third edition of the symposium dedicated to the practice of exhibiting art, architecture, and design in Slovenia.
Join the open call for the Artist-in-Residence programme aimed for artists, curators, and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine working in the field of contemporary visual art.
We are happy to announce that the book Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia, edited by Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc, is printed.
ERSTE Foundation offers 14 fellowships for emerging artists and curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2023.
We are happy to announce the Forest Encounters European cooperation project (2023–2025) – with the Igor Zabel Association (Ljubljana) as a lead partner – started with the kick-off meeting in March 2023.
MGLC Švicarija, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, invites art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during October 2023.
What forms of curatorial and institutional practices are being delineated on the horizon of our new social-political and environmental conditions and what voices are announcing them? These are the themes we will discuss on the occasion of the publication of Zdenka Badovinac’s most recent collection of essays entitled Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions on Saturday, 17 December 2022, at 18:00, at Nova Pošta in Ljubljana.
Based on the example of a former mining site in Minas Gerais, Brazil, this online lecture focuses on the concept of cultural landscape to investigate the impacts of the mining industry and propose possible ways to address related questions in the context of present ecological practices. Join us on 12 December 2022 at 18:00 CET. Part of Ecologies of Care lecture series.
Bojana Pejić, art historian, art writer, and curator is named this year’s Igor Zabel Award Laureate. Igor Zabel Award 2022 Grants go to Oksana Briukhovetska, Alina Șerban, and Antonina Stebur.
The international conference of the Igor Zabel Award 2022 approaches the future of life on this planet from the perspective of life’s end by drawing attention to reconsiderations of loss, decline, mourning, and death. Speakers: Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Thom van Dooren, Šejla Kamerić, Marietta Radomska, Boštjan Videmšek, and Mick Wilson
DUM – Association of Artists invites to a new discursive-exhibition programme How Art Matters. And How It Means. On 27 October 2022 Nicolás Robbio's work will be discussed by artist Alenka Pirman, and curator Vladimir Vidmar.
This online lecture focuses on reading a series of recent community activist art practices as transformational pedagogical approaches to repairing watersheds. Join in on 17 October 2022, 9 pm CET. The talk is part of the Ecologies of Care online lecture series.
Join the open call for the Artist-in-Residence programme aimed for artists, curators, and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and this time also from Ukraine working in the field of contemporary visual art. Deadline for applications: 18 September 2022!
Save the date for the 2022 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory and its accompanying international conference, which will take place on 17 and 18 November 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at Cankarjev dom and Cukrarna Gallery, as well as online.
On Tuesday 24 May at 19.00, you're invited to join the online discussion and presentation of the book Curator without a System. Viktor Misiano: Selected Writings.
Second Symposium on the Exhibiting of Art, Architecture, and Design, and Exhibition Institutions in Slovenia: 21–22 April 2022, City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka 15, Ljubljana
ERSTE Foundation offers 12 fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Croatia, Slovenia and Ukraine to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2022. Deadline for applications: 18 April 2022
MGLC Švicarija, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, invites art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during October 2022. Application deadline: 10 January 2022.
The call for participation invites submissions to the symposium, dedicated to the medium of exhibition, the phenomenon of exhibiting visual arts, architecture, and design, and questions regarding the art system in Slovenia in the context of the broader Central-European framework from the 19th century until today. Application deadline is extended: 5 January 2022.
The Artist-in-Residence programme is designed for artists, curators, and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia working in the field of contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area. Join the call for applications until 12 September 2021!
Ivana Bago, independent scholar, writer, and curator, presents a lecture on three Yugoslav exhibitions. Part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia.
The online conference, part of the EKO 8 – International Triennial of Art and Environment, 22 May 2021.
ERSTE Foundation offers five fellowships for young artists and five fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2021. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021