Marko Pogačnik

Marko Pogačnik (born August 11, 1944) is a Slovenian artist and author.

Background

Pogačnik studied at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where he graduated in 1967. He was a co-founder of the neo-avantgarde artistic movement OHO,

He lives and works in the village of Šempas in the lower Vipava Valley. In the last decade, the town of Nova Gorica, in which municipal territory he resides, has commissioned a number of public monuments from Pogačnik, most notably the monument to the 1000 years of the first mention of Gorica and Solkan, which stands in the town's central public square.

Since 2008, a group of his monuments and birch trees, titled the Hologram of Europe , stands at the crossroad of Tivoli Street and Slovene Street in Ljubljana.

Publications Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings - Working with the Intelligence in Nature (Findhorn Press, Scotland, 1996).