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 ...?
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MGLC Švicarija: Critic in Residence Programme 2020
MGLC Švicarija, creative and residency centre which operates in frame of MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, invites art critics or cultural journalists to apply for a fully-funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana in October 2020.
Exhibiting in Slovenia
Symposium on the exhibiting of art, architecture, and design, and on exhibition institutions in Slovenia from mid-nineteenth century onwards. 5 and 6 December 2019, City Museum of Ljubljana
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
Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association, and Kontakt. Art Collection. Deadline for application: 22 September 2019!
Igor Zabel: Art and Quality
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Umetnost in kvaliteta” (2002, Art and Quality) 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!
Igor Zabel's archive now available to the public
Igor Zabel's archive is now listed and available at Ljubljana's Modern Gallery 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, 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. Art 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.