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Conceptual Art of the 60’s and 70’s
LECTURERS
Igor Zabel (1958)
Graduated in comparative literature and art history from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and in 1989 received a master's degree in comparative literature. He has worked as curator at the Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art since 1986. Igor has prepared numerous exhibitions and has collaborated as a professional associate and consultant on Slovene and international projects, to name a few: Inexplicable Presence. Curator's Working Place, Ljubljana, 1997; 33rd Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, 1998; and Manifesta 2, Luxembourg, 1998. He writes and publishes art and literary reviews and theory. Among other, he is the author of Vidiki minemalnega, Minimalizem v slovenski umetnosti 1968-1989/Aspects of Minimal, Minimalism in Slovene Art 1968-1989, the exhibition catalogue of Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 1990; Vmesni prostor/The Space In-Between (Essays on the work of Emerik Bernard), Krt, Ljubljana, 1991; and Speculationes, Studia Humanitatis (Minora), Ljubljana, 1997. He is a co-ordinator for Manifesta 3. Lives and works in Ljubljana.
Lilijana Stepančič (1958)
Graduated in economics, art history and sociology from the University of Ljubljana. She worked as a curator and archivist at Obalne galerije Piran / Piran Coastal Galleries and later as curator at the Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art. From 1993 to 1997, she was director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana.
Since 1997, she has been director of the Open Society Institute-Slovenia. Her contemporary art reviews are published, among other things, in Razgledi. She is a member of a number of Slovene and international committees for contemporary art.
Miško Šuvaković
Born in Belgrade. He received his Ph.D in 1993 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. He is Professor at the Faculty of Music Art. He teaches Art Theory at Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Arts. He teaches History and Theory of Contemporary Art as Guest Lecturer at the School of Architecture in Belgrade. He also teaches Performing Arts Theory as Guest Lecturer within the frame of the Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture programme at the Faculty of Humanistic Studies in Koper.
He was member of the conceptualist group 143 (1975-80) as well as member of the informal theoretical community "Community for Space Research " (1982-89). He participated in the editorial work on the magazines "Catalogue 143" (Belgrade, 1976-77), "Mental Space" (Belgrade, 1982-87), "Transcatalogue" (Novi Sad, 1995-98).
He has published the following books: Language Scenes (1989), Pas Tout (1994), Prolegomena for Analytical Aesthetics (1995), Postmodernism (1995), The Asymmetrical Other (1996).
Antje von Graevenitz
She lectures on 20th-Century Art History at the University of Cologne. In 1972, she received her PhD at the University of Munich with a dissertation on the 17th-Century Baroque Ornamentals in the Netherlands. She is author of numerous contributions on the history of contemporary art published in scientific magazines and catalogues, while she publishes her art reviews in German and Dutch newspapers and magazines. Her field of specialisation are anthropological themes. In this frame, she wrote mainly on rituals in art (e.g. Beuys, Duchamp and Bruce Nauman) and on performances. She lives in Amsterdam and Cologne.
Charles Harrsion
He is involved with history, critique and art production since the 60’s. He collaborates with the group Art & Language for more than 25 years. He is author of the book Essays on Art & Language (1991) and Modernism (1997); Together with Paul Wood, he was editor of anthology Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992) and Art in Theory 1815-1900 (1998). Together with Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, he authored the book Art and Language in Practice Vol. 1: An Illustrated Handbook and edited Vol. 2: Critical Symposium (both in 1999). As curator, he prepared the exhibition When Attitude becomes Form, ICA, London, 1969; Idea Structures, Camden Arts Centre, 1971. He taught on modern art in the UK, Europe and the USA. He is Professor of Art History and Theory at the Open University in the UK as well as Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Texas in Austin, USA.+
László Beke
He received his degree in 1968 in Art History at ELTE University in Budapest. From his graduation to 1986, he worked as researcher in the field of art history at the Art History Research Institute in the frame of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 1988 and 1995, he was employed as Senior Curator for 19th- and 20th-century art at the National Gallery in Budapest. Since 1990, he is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Since 1995, he is Director General of Műcsarnok, Palace of Art in Budapest. He is author of numerous publications in the field of contemporary art.
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