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. File:Monolito del parque central de La Magdalena (Marko Pogačnik).jpg|Monolith in the central park of La Magdalena neighbourhood in
Quito. File:Placa de Marko Pogačnik en la Plaza Grande, Quito.jpg|Medallion in the
Independence Square of
Quito. File:Monolito del Parque La Carolina (Marko Pogačnik).jpg|Monolith in
La Carolina Park in
Quito. File:Steinstele Bleiburg by Marko Pogačnik.jpg|Monolith in
Bleiburg (Austria). ==Awards==