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Notable works
  
Eseji I, Eseji II

Books
  
Exhibition as a dream

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Igor Zabel


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Born
  
14 August 1958Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) (
1958-08-14
)

Occupation
  
Art historian, curator, essayist and literary critic

Notable awards
  
Rozanc Award2007 for Eseji o moderni in sodobni umetnosti

Died
  
July 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Similar People
  
Franjo Francic, Milan Vincetic, Jani Virk, Feri Lainscek, Andrej Blatnik

Education
  
University of Ljubljana

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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.

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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.

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

Continuing Dialogue - The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory


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
  • References

    Igor Zabel Wikipedia


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