Igor Zabel: Art and Quality
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Umetnost in kvaliteta” (Art and Quality, 2002) essay on art criticism.
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OPEN CALL: Exhibiting in Slovenia. A Symposium upon the 110th Anniversary of the Jakopič Pavilion
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 now available to the public
Igor Zabel's archive from his office in Ljubljana's Moderna galerija is now listed and available at Moderna galerija Archives Department.
Recommended: MG+MSUM Summer School
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!
Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2019
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!
Igor Zabel Award 2018 winners and award ceremony
Who are the winners of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2018?
Award ceremony: 7 December, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Art – How Much is it Still an Idea for the Future?
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
On Contemporaneity of Contemporary Art: Šum #10.1
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.
The Curator's Room: Igor Zabel – How to Make Art Visible?
22 November 2018, 21:00, Kinodvor, Ljubljana
Slovenian premiere of the documentary film about art historian and curator Igor Zabel; directed by Damjan Kozole
We announce: Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2018 programme
22 November–7 December, Ljubljana
At the end of the year in which the art historian and curator Igor Zabel would have celebrated his sixtieth birthday and upon the tenth anniversary of the Igor Zabel Award, a series of events dedicated to Igor Zabel’s heritage and the significance of contemporary art will take place in Ljubljana.
Yugoslav Monuments Associated with the First World War (1918–1941) | Symposium
18–19 October 2018, Ljubljana
The symposium attempts to outline not only the common features of these works but also their differences, which to a large degree were conditioned by very diverse local traditions of commemoration and memorial creation.
Open call: Artists-in-Residence Programme at the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association, and Kontakt Collection. Deadline for application: 1 October 2018
On Power in Architecture #2: A Phenomenological Perspective | Symposium
Renowned philosophers (Andrew Benjamin, Dean Komel, Jeff Malpas, Peter Trawny) and an architectural historian (Luka Skansi) will examine architecture in regard to its heterogeneous relationship to power.
Mladen Dolar and Andrew Benjamin: On Modernity and Postmodernity
“Abstraction becomes the moment that divides the modern from the post-modern and with it the politically progressive from the reactionary or conservative.” (Andrew Benjamin, What is Abstraction?)
Igor Zabel - on this day
On this day Igor Zabel (1958-2005), art historian and curator, would have celebrated his sixtieth birthday. This autumn and winter, we will dedicate a series of events and activities to his life and work.
reprint: Beti Žerovc: When Attitudes Become the Norm
When Attitudes Become the Norm, a collection of essays and interviews with established curators, artists and critics on the phenomenon of curatorship in contemporary art by art historian and theorist Beti Žerovc, has been reprinted due to great interest.
Pannel: Plotting Decolonial Options: Translocal Interrogations
ICA, London, 5 June 2018, a pannel with speakers: Edit András, Chandra Frank and Katya García-Antón; chaired by Juliet Steyn
Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2018
Call for applications open until 2 April 2018 for five fellowships for young artists and five fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia.
Tomaž Brejc: Ideas, Terms, Exhibitions and Paintings at the Beginning of Modernism
Two lectures by Tomaž Brejc, organized together with the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Katja Mahnič: Josip Mantuani and the Painting Collection of the Provincial Museum of Carniola (1909–1924)
A lecture by Katja Mahnič, organized together with the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
On Power in Architecture: video recordings from the symposium
Video recordings from the symposium On Power in Architecture: A Materialist Perspective.
Gudrun Danzer on the art system in Graz, 1865−1918
Two lectures by Gudrun Danzer, organized together with the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Decolonising the Mind, Provincialising the West
pannel discussion and video screening by Sanja Iveković Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA),...
Michelle Facos on exhibitions and institutions in the United States and in Scandinavia 1890-1918
Two lectures by Michelle Facos, organized together with the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.