Igor Zabel (14 August 1958 – 23 July 2005) was a Slovene art historian, curator, and essayist.
The association reports its goal as the promotion of the ongoing importance of Zabel's work "for art and cultural understanding between East and West" Europe.
[5] The Igor Zabel Award for outstanding cultural activities related to the Central and South Eastern European region[8] and the Igor Zabel Competition for innovative curatorial approaches and theoretical research in contemporary visual arts are both named after him.
[9] Zabel's research focused on post-communist literature and art in Eastern and Central Europe.
He also translated to translations numerous texts and books from the field of humanities and literature: Thomas Pynchon, Edward W. Said, Oscar Wilde, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Sigmund Freud, Michael Baxandall, Erwin Panofsky.