A Letter to the Future: Toward Radical and Creative Ecologies
The International Conference, part of the program of the EKO 8 – International Triennial of Art and Environment, will take place on 22 May 2021 in Maribor and online.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2021
ERSTE Foundation offers five fellowships for young artists and five fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2021. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021
Branislav Dimitrijević: “New Art Practices” in Exhibitions and Institutional Policies in Serbia, 1967–1983
Part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia, the lecture will present and critically interpret exhibition practices and institutinal dynamics in Serbia from 1967 to 1983.
Petar Prelog: New Art Meets the Audience
The lecture, part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia, from the Early 19th Century to Today, will focus on key exhibitions in Croatia during the interwar period, with the history of Croatian modern art being interpreted through the history of these exhibitions.
Igor Zabel: Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
We’ve published the catalogue of Igor Zabel’s exhibition Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place). The exhibition was held at Ljubljana’s Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art in 1997 and at the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1998.
MGLC Švicarija: Open Call for Critic-in-Residence Programme 2021
MGLC Švicarija, a creative and residency centre, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory is inviting art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully-funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during October 2021.
Award Ceremony of the Igor Zabel Award 2020
Presenting the Igor Zabel Award 2020 laureate, Zdenka Badovinac, and this year's grant recipients, Ivana Bago, Slavcho Dimitrov, and Katalin Erdődi. The ceremony took place in Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, and online on 4 December 2020.
The Entire World as Our World
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.
Borderline Syndrom and Energies of Defence
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.
Open Call: Artists-in-Residence Programme at the Museumsquartier, Vienna 2021
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
Announcing the Igor Zabel Award 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.
Solidarity with cultural workers in Slovenia in during the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2020
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!
MGLC / Švicarija: Critic in Residence Programme 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 at MG+MSUM
The Igor Zabel Library is accessible to all visitors at the MG+MSUM library.
Igor Zabel: "Contemporary Art"
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Sodobna umetnost” (“Contemporary Art”, 2005) essay.
Upcoming screenings of The Curator's Room documentary film
Where and when you can attend screenings of the documentary film about Igor Zabel - Ljubljana, Maribor, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb ...?
Bauhaus: the Imperative of Transparency
Symposium and documentary films for the centenary of the Bauhaus
Parallel Systems - Establishing and Forming New Media Art
November/December: different events on establishing and forming new media art in Slovenia and beyond.
International Symposium On Power in Architecture #3
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.
Discussion on Architecture and Ideology
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.
OPEN CALL: ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME AT THE MUSEUMSQUARTIER, VIENNA
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
Igor Zabel: Art and Quality
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Umetnost in kvaliteta” (Art and Quality, 2002) essay on art criticism.
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!