Who are the 2024 Igor Zabel Award and Grant recipients?

Edit András, art historian, art critic, and curator is named this year’s Igor Zabel Award Laureate. Irfan Hošić, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, and Natalija Vujošević receive the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Grants
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. The Award Ceremony will be preceded by a two-day seminar on November 28 and 29, 2024 at the Museum of Modern Art (MG+) in Ljubljana.
More information: https://award.igorzabel.org/eng
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 given 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 emphasize the importance of local conditions and specificities, and promote a more nuanced and localized implementation of critical theories. She is also a critical analyst of the post-socialist condition, and has written and lectured extensively on nationalism and populism in connection to art and culture. As a progressive and critical (feminist) curator, researcher, and author, and also 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.

JURY AND NOMINATORS
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
ABOUT THE AWARD
The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges exceptional achievements of curators, art historians and theorists, art writers and critics active in the field of visual art and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory was named in honor of the distinguished Slovenian curator and art historian Igor Zabel (1958–2005) and has been conferred biennially since 2008 in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, and the Igor Zabel Association, Ljubljana.
A three-member international jury selects the laureate and recipients of the three grants based on proposals given by ten nominators. With total prize money of EUR 85,000, the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory is the highest and most prestigious prize for cultural activities related to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
Join us at this year’s award ceremony, on 29 November at 20:30 CET in Sokol House, Tabor in Ljubljana.
The Award Ceremony will be preceded by a two-day seminar on November 28 and 29, 2024 at the Museum of Modern Art (MG+) in Ljubljana. Recipients of this year’s Igor Zabel Award and Grants will present their work and discuss how art and theory from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe can contribute to the world in this era of multiple and accelerating crises.
The award acknowledges the exceptional achievements in the field of visual art and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It 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