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Join us for a seminar Climate: Our Right to Breathe with curator and researcher Nkule Mabaso: Thursday, 7 March 2024, 17:00–20:00, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna.  

Book presentation and discussion with the editors and authors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc: Thursday, 7 March 2024, 19:00, Café Merkur, Vienna. 

Screening of the film The Magic Mountain followed by a conversation with artist Micol Roubini and curator Gabi Scardi: Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 15:00–18:00, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna. 

Book presentation and discussion with the editors and authors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc: Thursday, 1 February 2024, 18:00, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana.

In the context of Polonca Lovšin’s exhibition The Forest in Women’s Hands and Mushrooms at the End of the World, we invite you to a special guided tour of the exhibition, which will include a presentation about forest foraging by Vlasta Mlakar on Wednesday, January 17, at 17:00 in the Gallery of the Slovenian Forestry Institute in Ljubljana. 

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 2024. 

Book presentation, conversation with Beti Žerovc, Sanja Horvatinčić, and Heike Karge, accompanied with the film screening: Friday, 12 January 2024, 18:00, Forum Saloon, Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, Graz.

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 opening of the exhibition by Polonca Lovšin in Ljubljana, 30 November–1 December 2023.

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. 

On Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 19:00, we invite you to the Mala galerija Banke Slovenije in Ljubljana for the opening of the exhibition Visit the Exhibition in the Jakopič Pavilion. The opening programme starts at 18:00 with a conversation on the release of the e-publication Exhibitions at the Jakopič Pavilion between 1919 and 1945.

Book presentation and discussion with the editors and authors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc: Friday, 13 October 2023, 18:00, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

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.

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.