Igor Zabel

Igor Zabel (14 August 1958 – 23 July 2005) was a Slovene art historian, curator, writer and essayist. He was curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and one of the most prominent writers on modern and contemporary art in Slovenia.[1]

Igor Zabel
Born(1958-08-14)14 August 1958
Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia)
Died(2005-07-23)23 July 2005
Ljubljana, Slovenia
OccupationArt historian, curator, essayist and literary critic
Notable worksEseji I, Eseji II
Notable awardsRožanc Award
2007 for Eseji o moderni in sodobni umetnosti

Zabel was born in Ljubljana and studied Philosophy, History of Art and Comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. From 1986 he worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art. He wrote numerous art historical essays, literary critiques and worked as a writer and translator. In 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Rožanc Award for his essays on Modern and Contemporary Art.[2]

The Igor Zabel Award for outstanding cultural activities related to the Central and South Eastern European region [3] and the Igor Zabel Competition for innovative curatorial approaches and theoretical research in contemporary visual arts are both named after him.[4]

Published works
  • Strategije, taktike, short stories, 1985
  • Vmesni prostor: eseji o slikarstvu Emerika Bernarda, collection of essays, 1991
  • Lise na steni, short stories, 1993
  • Speculationes, collection of essays, 1997
  • Eseji I, collection of essays, 2006
  • Eseji II, collection of essays, 2008
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References
  1. Umrl Igor Zabel (Igor Zabel has Died), Delo, 24 July 2005
  2. Letos rožanca Štegru in Zabelu This Year's Rožanc Awards for Šteger and Zabel, RTV Slovenija 20 September 2007
  3. Rožanc Award at Culture.si Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia site
  4. "Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana site". Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.


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