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Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2022 goes to Bojana Pejić

Igor Zabel Association

Award ceremony: November 18, 2022, 8pm

So Close—Ecologies of Life and Death
November 17, 3–7:15pm, international conference
Cankarjev dom, Prešernova cesta 10, Ljubljana

Cukrarna
Cukrarna Gallery
Poljanski nasip 40
SI- 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

https://award.igorzabel.org

Bojan Pejić, art historian, art writer, and curator is named this year’s 
Igor Zabel Award Laureate. 2022 Igor Zabel Award Grants go to Oksana 
Briukhovetska, Alina Șerban, and Antonina Stebur.

The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges the exceptional 
achievements of cultural workers whose work supports, develops, or 
investigates visual art and culture in Central, Eastern and Southeastern 
Europe.

The 2022 Igor Zabel Award jury awards Bojana Pejić (born in Belgrade 
1948, based in Berlin) for her lifelong research into the constituent 
elements of Eastern European art and culture. Her writings, and 
particularly her complex international exhibitions such as After the 
Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe (1999–2001) and Gender 
Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe 
(2009–2010), have had worldwide impact, critically marking our 
understanding of art during state socialism and also providing critical 
analysis of post-socialist culture after 1989. Pejić orchestrates 
transnational teams or works alone as she surveys what Eastern European 
countries have in common, and how their art makes visible the history, 
nationalism, and gender politics. She is an art historian and also an 
activist for whom academia is never sufficient. Pejić compels us to 
reread our past in order to change our common future.

2022 Igor Zabel Award Grant recipients

Oksana Briukhovetska**, artist, curator, and art writer (Kyiv / 
Michigan, USA) for her outstanding contribution to the artistic and 
activist life in Ukraine and beyond; her work triggers processes of 
democratization under the most demanding circumstances and raises 
feminist awareness.

Alina Șerban, art historian, art writer, curator, and editor (Bucharest) 
in recognition of her exceptional research and ability to create 
self-managed organizations and platforms that bring together Central and 
Eastern European researchers and cultural workers.

Antonina Stebur, curator, art writer, and researcher (Minsk, currently 
living between Poland and Germany) in recognition of her extraordinary 
power of resistance, commitment to decolonize Belarusian art, and her 
belief that art is a practical instrument of political imagination.
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The award is not by application. A three-member international jury 
selects the laureate and recipients of three grants based on proposals 
given by 10 nominators.

2022 jury: Marta Dziewańska (philosopher and curator, Kunstmuseum Bern), 
Ahmet Öğüt (artist, Berlin / Amsterdam), Tomáš Pospiszyl (art historian 
and curator, Prague)
2022 nominators: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Olga Chernysheva, Anetta Mona 
Chisa, iLiana Fokianaki, Dóra Hegyi, Inga Lāce, Lena Prents, Kate 
Sutton, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Klara Kemp-Welch

Named in honour of the distinguished Slovenian curator and art historian 
Igor Zabel (1958–2005), the award has been conferred biennially since 
2008 in cooperation with the initiator of the award, ERSTE Foundation 
(Vienna), and the Igor Zabel Association (Ljubljana). With prize money 
totalling 76,000 EUR, it is one of the highest and most prestigious 
prizes for cultural activities related to Central, Eastern and 
Southeastern Europe.

The 2022 award and grant recipients will be presented through lively 
conversation at the award ceremony: 18 November 2022 at 20:00 CET, 
Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Accompanying programme, held as part of the Igor Zabel Award 2022:

So Close: Ecologies 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 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Iaohtpr3_eclHFLCJsEDg

Speakers: Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Thom van Dooren, Šejla Kamerić, 
Marietta Radomska, Boštjan Videmšek, and Mick Wilson

The international conference So Close: Ecologies of Life and Death 
approaches the future of life on our planet from the perspective of 
life’s end by drawing attention to reconsiderations of loss, decline, 
mourning, and death. In this way, it seeks to transcend the binary of, 
on the one hand, dystopian pessimism about the future and, on the other, 
utopian optimism in the all-powerful human capacity to overcome the end.

More: https://award.igorzabel.org/

Partners: Igor Zabel Association, ERSTE Foundation, and MGML / Cukrarna 
Gallery.