Zachęta National Gallery of Art together with ERSTE Foundation invite you to the prestigious ceremony for the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2012.

The ceremony will take place on November 16th, 8 p.m at Zachęta. The event  will be preceded by various accompanying events that will take place between 3–7 p.m.


The Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory was founded in February 2008 by Mateja Kos Zabel, Bojan Zabel and ERSTE Foundation. The association’s objective is to work with Igor Zabel’s heritage and highlight the importance and ongoing influence of his work, as well as to support art theory and contemporary curatorial practices in the Central and South Eastern European region and beyond.
www.igorzabelassociation.org

FRIDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 
CONFERENCE

The event is open to the public.
All presentations are in English, translation into Polish will be available.
Host: Christiane Erharter

3 – 3.15 p.m.
welcome
Welcome by Hanna Wróblewska (director, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, jury member Igor Zabel Award 2012), Urška Jurman (vice-president, Igor Zabel Association, Ljubljana), Christine Böhler (director, Programme Culture, ERSTE Foundation) and Christiane Erharter (curator, Programme Culture, ERSTE Foundation)

3.15 – 3.45 p.m.
Book launch
Igor Zabel Contemporary Art Theory. Presentation of the book by Barbara Borčić (director, SCCA-Ljubljana), Igor Španjol (curator, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, editor-in-chief of the book) and Urška Jurman

4 – 4.45 p.m.
“Beyond Corrupted Eye”
Conversation about the exhibition with Klara Kemp-Welch (art historian, London), Jaroslaw Kozłowski (artist, Poznań, former director of Akumulatory 2 Gallery and co-curator of the exhibition) and Hanna Wróblewska

Functioning in defiance of geopolitical divisions, the Poznań-based Akumulatory 2 Gallery was a place where the public was able to experience art from the East and West, with artists from Eastern and Western Europe, the United States and Canada, from South America and Asia. The gallery’s origins date back to the NET idea, formulated in 1971 by Jarosław Kozłowski and Andrzej Kostołowski. The exhibitions and discussions initiated at the Akumulatory 2 Gallery and the critical discourse pursued in both theory and practice make it one of the most significant actors on the artistic map at that time. The current exhibition at Zachęta is an attempt to present the history of a gallery that remained a noncommercial space for showcasing the work of artists from all over the world for eighteen years.

4.45 – 5.15 p.m.
coffee/tea break

5.15 – 5.45 p.m.
Videotheque. Audio-visual archives of Moscow conceptualism
Lecture performance by Sabine Hänsgen (slavicist, culture and media theoretician, artist, member of the group Collective Actions, Berlin) and Yuri Leiderman (artist, Berlin and Moscow, jury member Igor Zabel Award 2012)

6 – 6.40 p.m
Curating as an agency of cultural and geopolitical change
Conversation between Suzana Milevska (art historian, Skopje) and Alenka Gregorič (curator and director, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, jury member Igor Zabel Award 2012)

6.40 – 7 p.m.
conversation
Conversation between Suzana Milevska and Tímea Junghaus (art historian, curator, European Roma Cultural Foundation, Budapest)


FRIDAY, 16 NOVEMBER
AWARD CEREMONY

The event is open to the public.
All presentations are in English.
Host: Agnieszka Szydłowska

8 p.m.
award ceremony
Welcome by Hanna Wróblewska

Art and Democracy
by Piotr Piotrowski (art historian, Poznań; winner of the Igor Zabel Award 2010)

Speeches
by Urška Jurman and Christine Böhler

Statement
by Alenka Gregorič on behalf of the jury Igor Zabel Award 2012

Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2012
Grants

Jury members 2012: Alenka Gregorič, Yuri Leiderman, Hanna Wróblewska

9 p.m.
buffet dinner and party
Music by Jacek Sienkiewicz