IGOR ZABEL AWARD: ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME

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

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: 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 conference focuses on the concept of contemporary art, especially on the question of how much it is able to shape ideas for the future. Participants: Clémentine Deliss, Zoran Erić, iLiana Fokianaki, Ana Janevski, Nomaduma Masilela, Cuauhtémoc Medina González, Lívia Páldi, Marjetica Potrč, Marcelo Rezende, Adam Szymczyk

Presentation of Šum #10.1 journal and a discussion on the establishment of the concept of contemporary art in Slovenia.

Participants: Edit András, Manuel Borja-Villel, Ekaterina Degot, Okwui Enwezor, Charles Esche, Beáta Hock, Tímea Junghaus, Magdalena Radomska, Peter Weibel, and WHW