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.
On Tuesday 24 May at 19.00, you're invited to join the online discussion and presentation of the book Curator without a System. Viktor Misiano: Selected Writings.
Second Symposium on the Exhibiting of Art, Architecture, and Design, and Exhibition Institutions in Slovenia: 21–22 April 2022, City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka 15, Ljubljana
ERSTE Foundation offers 12 fellowships for young artists and emerging 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 2022. Deadline for applications: 18 April 2022
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 2022. Application deadline: 10 January 2022.
The call for participation invites submissions to the symposium, dedicated to the medium of exhibition, the phenomenon of exhibiting visual arts, architecture, and design, and questions regarding the art system in Slovenia in the context of the broader Central-European framework from the 19th century until today. Application deadline is extended: 5 January 2022.
The Artist-in-Residence programme is designed for artists, curators, and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia working in the field of contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area. Join the call for applications until 12 September 2021!
Ivana Bago, independent scholar, writer, and curator, presents a lecture on three Yugoslav exhibitions. Part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia.
The conference, part of the EKO 8 – International Triennial of Art and Environment, will take place on 22 May 2021 online.
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
The topic of the lecture, part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia, is the participation of Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale between 1948 and 1990.
Part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia, the lecture presents and critically interprets exhibition practices and institutinal dynamics in Serbia from 1967 to 1983.
The lecture, part of the seminar Art Exhibiting in Slovenia, from the Early 19th Century to Today, focuses on key exhibitions in Croatia during the interwar period, with the history of Croatian modern art being interpreted through the history of these exhibitions.
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, 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.
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 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!