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The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2022


The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2022

Award Ceremony: 18. 11. at 8. p.m. | Cukrarna Gallery
International Conference: 17. 11. | 3–7.15 p.m. | CD Club, Cankarjev dom


The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges exceptional achievements of curators, art historians, theorists, writers, and critics in the field of visual art and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

Named in honour of the distinguished Slovenian curator and art historian Igor Zabel (1958–2005), the award has been conferred biennially since 2008 in cooperation with the initiator of the award, ERSTE Foundation (Vienna), and the Igor Zabel Association (Ljubljana).

You are cordially invited to this year’s ceremony celebrating the 2022 Igor Zabel Award and Grant recipients whose work will be presented through lively conversation.

On the day before the main event, we are also hosting the international conference So Close: Ecologies of Life and Death on the future of life on our planet from the perspective of the end of life, namely reconsiderations of loss, mourning, and death.
 

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