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Natalija Vujosević - Žena koja sjedi za stolom

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro is proud to announce that our curator, Natalija Vujošević, is the recipient of the prestigious grant as part of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory for 2024. 

 Vujošević has been recognized for her significant contribution to researching, historicizing, activating, and contextualizing marginalized but globally unique art collections and archives from the period of socialist Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav times. 

 The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory is given every two years for outstanding achievements in curatorial, artistic, and theoretical practices related to visual arts and culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Alongside the main award, three grants are also awarded.

 The award, named after the renowned Slovenian curator and art historian Igor Zabel (1958–2005), was established in collaboration with the ERSTE Foundation from Vienna and the Igor Zabel Association from Ljubljana, and is considered the most prestigious award in this field. 

 The main “Igor Zabel” Award for Culture and Theory for 2024 was awarded to Hungarian curator and art theorist Edit Andras. 

 The jury recognized her exceptional contribution to counter-hegemonic discourses on Eastern European art and the writing of art history, emphasizing the importance of local specificities and context. Her work, which often highlights the connections between art, nationalism, and populism, as well as her critical feminist approach, has made her one of the most dedicated advocates for contemporary visual art and culture in Hungary and throughout Eastern and Central Europe. 

 In addition to Vujošević, the grant recipients are Irfan Hošić from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, a Romanian philosopher living and working in Denmark, both of whom have made significant contributions to the cultural scene and visual arts theory. 

 More at the link:

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/626865/edit-andrs-receives-2024-igor-zabel-award-for-culture-and-theory