Art historian, art writer and curator Boyan Pežić has been named this year’s Igor Zabel Prize winner. The 2022 Igor Zabel Award Grants go to Oksana Briukhovetska, Alina şerban and Antonina Stebur.
Igor Zabel Prize for Culture and Theory It recognizes the extraordinary work of cultural workers who support, develop or explore the visual arts and culture of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
2022 Igor Zabel Prize Jury Award Boyana Pejic (born 1948 in Belgrade, based in Berlin) for his lifelong research on the components of Eastern European art and culture.Her writings, especially complex international exhibitions such as After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe (1999–2001) and Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in Eastern European Art (2009–2010) has had a global impact, critically presenting our understanding of art during the National Socialist era, and also providing a critical analysis of post-socialist culture since 1989. Pezic assembles cross-border teams or works alone in researching the commonalities of Eastern European countries. , and how their art visualizes history, nationalism, and gender politics. She is both an art historian and an activist whose academics are never enough. Pežić forces us to reread our past in order to change our common future.
2022 Igor Zabel Prize Grant Winner
– Oksana Bryukhovetska, Artist, Curator and Art Writer (Kyiv/Michigan, USA) for her outstanding contribution to the lives of artists and activists in Ukraine and beyond. Her work ignites processes of democratization and raises feminist awareness in the most dire circumstances.
– Alina SterbanArt Historian, Art Writer, Curator and Editor (Bucharest) in recognition of her extraordinary research and ability to create a self-managed organization and platform that connects researchers and cultural activists in Central and Eastern Europe. rice field.
– Antonina Stevera curator, art writer and researcher (Minsk, now living between Poland and Germany), noted her extraordinary resistance, her commitment to decolonizing Belarusian art, and that art is a product of the political imagination. In recognition of her belief in being a practical tool.
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The gift is not an application system. A panel of three international jurors will select three grant winners and winners based on the submissions of ten nominators.
2022 Jury: Martha Jevanska (Philosopher and Curator, Kunstmuseum Bern), Ahmet Ogut (Artist, Berlin/Amsterdam), Tomas Pospischl (Art Historian and Curator, Prague)
2022 nominator: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Olga Chernysheva, Anetta Mona Chisa, iLiana Fokianaki, Dóra Hegyi, Inga Lāce, Lena Prents, Kate Sutton, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Klara Kemp-Welch
Named after the prominent Slovenian curator and art historian Igor Zabel (1958–2005), the prize has been sponsored since 2008 by the prize’s founders, the ERSTE Foundation (Vienna) and the Igor Zabel Society (Ljubljana). ) and is awarded every other year. With a total prize pool of EUR 76,000, he is one of the highest and most prestigious prizes for cultural activities related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
The 2022 winners and grant winners will be announced through a lively dialogue. Award ceremony: November 18, 2022 20:00 CET, Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ancillary programs held as part of the Igor Zabel Award 2022:
So Close: The Ecology of Life and Death, International conference
Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:30–19:15 CET, CD Club, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana + Stream: via Igor Zabel Association YT channel // via e-flux (link)
speaker: Maya & Ruben Fawkes, Tom Van Doren, Sheila Kamelich, Marietta Radmuska, Boszcán Videmsek, Mick Wilson
International conference So Close: Ecology of Life and Death It approaches the future of life on Earth from the perspective of the end of life by calling attention to loss, decline, mourning and rethinking death. In this way, it seeks to transcend the dualism of dystopian pessimism about the future on the one hand and utopian optimism in the omnipotent human capacity to overcome the end on the other.
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Partners: Igor Zabel Association, ERSTE Foundation, and MGML / Cukrarna Gallery.
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