The art historian, critic and curator Edit András has been named the 2024 Igor Zabel Award Laureate.
The jury cited András’s ‘exceptional contribution to counter-hegemonic discourses on Eastern European art and art history writing which emphasize the importance of local conditions and specificities, and promote a more nuanced and localized implementation of critical theories’.
Alongside the Laureate, the Igor Zabel Award Grants have been awarded to: Irfan Hošić, a curator, critic and artistic director of KRAK, Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać; Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, aphilosopher and cultural theorist, curator, translator and editor, based in Copenhagen; and Natalija Vujošević, a artist and curator from Montenegro.
Named after the late Slovenian curator and art historian Igor Zabel (1958–2005) and conferred biennially since 2008, the Award – with a total prize money of EUR85,000 – acknowledges ‘exceptional achievements of curators, art historians and theorists, art writers and critics active in the field of visual art and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe’.
The jury for this year’s award included Manuel Borja-Villel, art historian and curator; Ilona Németh, artist, curator and professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Slovak University of Technology STU, Bratislava; and Angelika Richter, art historian, curator and president of the Weißensee School of Art and Design, Berlin.
An award ceremony will take place on 29 November, preceded by a two-day seminar at Ljubljana’s Museum of Modern Art & Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Recipients of this year’s Award and Grants will present their work and discuss how art and theory from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe can contribute to the world.
