The Curator’s Room — Igor Zabel: How to Make Art Visible?

Documentary film

Starting 22 November 2018, at Kinodvor

The Curator’s Room, a documentary film dedicated to the art historian and curator Igor Zabel (1958–2005), focuses on Zabel’s work in the field of visual arts from the end of the 1980s to his death. Through the film, we learn how, in that epochal time – at the turn of the century and at the intersections of (post)modern and contemporary art, the local and international art space, socialism and capitalism, East and West, the artistic and the social/political –, he faced in his work not only great changes and conflicts, but also possibilities for the new.

The film portrays not only a man who, despite the internal contradictions of the art world, persistently believed in the power of art, but also the time and space in which Igor Zabel worked and which he co-shaped.

Director: Damjan Kozole

Scriptwriter: Urška Jurman

Photography: Matjaž Mrak

Editor: Jurij Moškon

Producer: Danijel Hočevar

Production and distribution: Vertigo

Co-production: RTV Slovenia, Igor Zabel Association

Supported by: Slovenian Film Centre