The international conference – prepared in collaboration with the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana – reconsiders the universal during the era of global capitalism and pandemic, and aims to rethink our common future and the presence of art in the (entire) world that is (not yet) our world. Speakers include: T. J. Demos, Boris Groys, ruangrupa, Apolonija Šušteršič, Alberto Toscano, and Alenka Zupančič.
Twenty years after Ljubljana hosted the European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta 3, we return with Šejla Kamerić, Kathrin Rhomberg, and Renata Salecl to its central theme – “borderline syndrome and energies of defence” – and look at it through the lens of today’s realities.
The Artists-in-Residence programme invites artists, curators and theoreticians from Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Croatia to apply! Application deadline: 6 December 2020
The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory ceremony and its accompanying international conference will take place from 3 to 4 December 2020 in Ljubljana and the web.
The Solidarni s kulturo initiative (Solidarity with culture) is an independent effort by cultural workers for cultural workers providing short-term urgent financial aid, urging those who can help to donate and those who need support to apply for assistance.
Five young artists and five emerging curators will receive fellowships by the ERSTE Foundation to take part in a course of their choice this year at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg. Call for applications is open until 15 March 2020!
In collaboration with MGLC Ljubljana, we're inviting art critics or cultural journalists to apply for a fully-funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana in October 2020.
The Igor Zabel Library is accessible to all visitors at the MG+MSUM library.
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Sodobna umetnost” (“Contemporary Art”, 2005) essay.
Where and when you can attend screenings of the documentary film about Igor Zabel - Ljubljana, Maribor, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb ...?
Symposium and documentary films for the centenary of the Bauhaus
November/December: different events on establishing and forming new media art in Slovenia and beyond.
The third symposium of the series On Power in Architecture will take place in Ljubljana's Museum of Architecture and Design on 26 September 2019 with: Andrew Ballantyne, Elke Krasny, Nadir Lahiji, Robert Pfaller, and Douglas Spencer.
As part of the international symposium On Power in Architecture #3, a discussion on the topic of Architecture and Ideology will take place on 25 September at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.
The Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection invites artists, curators and theoreticians to apply! Application deadline: 22 September 2019
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Umetnost in kvaliteta” (Art and Quality, 2002) essay on art criticism.
We invite you to apply to Exhibiting in Slovenia. A Symposium upon the 110th Anniversary of the Jakopič Pavilion. The deadline for applications has been extended to 12 June 2019!
Igor Zabel's archive from his office in Ljubljana's Moderna galerija is now listed and available at Moderna galerija Archives Department.
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is organising a Summer School titled The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Application deadline is 30 March!
Five young artists and five emerging curators will receive fellowships by the ERSTE Foundation to take part in a course of their choice this year at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg. Call for applications is open until 17 March 2019!
Who are the winners of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2018?
Award ceremony: 7 December, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
6 December, 13:00–19:00, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Participants: Clémentine Deliss, Zoran Erić, iLiana Fokianaki, Ana Janevski, Nomaduma Masilela, Cuauhtémoc Medina González, Lívia Páldi, Marjetica Potrč, Marcelo Rezende, Adam Szymczyk
28 November, 18:00, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
Presentation of Šum #10.1 journal and a discussion on the establishment of the concept of contemporary art in Slovenia.
22 November 2018, 21:00, Kinodvor, Ljubljana
Slovenian premiere of the documentary film about art historian and curator Igor Zabel; directed by Damjan Kozole