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!
In collaboration with MGLC Švicarija, 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 is accessible to all visitors at the MG+MSUM library.
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Sodobna umetnost” (“Contemporary Art”, 2005) essay.
Where and when you can attend screenings of the documentary film about Igor Zabel - Ljubljana, Maribor, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb ...?
Symposium and documentary films for the centenary of the Bauhaus
November/December: different events on establishing and forming new media art in Slovenia and beyond.
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.
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.
Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association, and Kontakt. Art Collection. Deadline for application: 22 September 2019!
The English translation of Igor Zabel’s “Umetnost in kvaliteta” (Art and Quality, 2002) essay on art criticism.
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 is now listed and available at Ljubljana's Modern Gallery Archives Department.
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!
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!
Who are the winners of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2018?
Award ceremony: 7 December, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
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
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.
22 November, 21:00, Kinodvor, Ljubljana
Slovenian premiere of the documentary film about art historian and curator Igor Zabel; directed by Damjan Kozole
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.
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.
Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association, and Kontakt. Art Collection. Deadline for application: 1 October 2018!
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.
“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?)