Works of Marko Stojanović were exhibited in May at Telenor’s exhibition in the Belgrade Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, but also in the Museum of Modern Art in Saint Etienne. Stojanović, who currently lives in Belgrade and works for 2 Chic Agency, also presented his works at this year’s October Salon, which, as he says, was a long-time dream. Last year he exhibited at the Halapa Academy of Art, the University of Veracruz, Mexico. He is the winner of several national and international awards. About his impressions from the Bari Biennale he says:
 "Visitors in Bari could see my works from collection Art Food – Eat Art, in a group of works presented by about ten artists from Serbia exhibiting among about 700 artists from all across Europe and the Mediterranean. Responses to my ‘reproductions’ of masterpieces on a plate were positive: people communicate very easily and very well with this global, populist idea of popularising top art through the stomach."
Marko Stojanović will go to London invited, as he says, by the Balkan Art Festival Termina100 from Ljubljana, and is honoured to inaugurate the gallery in this centre of arts dedicated to promoting contemporary art from Eastern Europe…
Stojanović got the opportunity to meet the world-known artist Marina Abramovich, originally from Serbia, and he stressed that her advice was very useful. How it happened that he met the artist explains:
"At the Novi Sad Academy I was the author of the project Tabula Marina, which dealt with her status in Serbia. It was actually a poster that I clandestinely placed on the Academy’s façade. The poster depicted a marble plaque that should have been placed in there. In order to comprise some other meanings the plaque had a recognisable socialist inscription: In this place… Written in the Roman capital font the text advised both students and professors alike that once, in this same place, also worked Marina Abramovich. But in the end, she got the sack. This project can be also seen as a creation of a touristartistic Mecca, which is fully in the spirit of today’s general commercialisation of top art. She was touched by my work and expressed a wish to meet me."
Upon completion of his studies in Novi Sad, which he finished by printing quite an original art book, in seven copies, actually a collection of poems and illustrations entitled According to Marko, Stojanović then moved to Belgrade, to fill an interesting job at an agency which he recently was hired after winning a competition for logos at the Civil Service Ministry.
"What I appreciated the most were the unconventional invitation cards that were, for instance, made from Novi Sad to Zlatibor, with one being created for Telekom. It is a challenge – to build your intimate artistic concept into the design of the biggest customers in the country."
When he gets fatigued with the computer, he turns to painting. Jokingly he adds: "After a several-years-long pause, I started painting when I was given the sack. I have recently exhibited my hyperrealist "Self Portrait With Airplane" in Novi Sad’s Tableau Gallery.
Stojanović emphasises that he is most proud of the synthesis of art and graphic design in his work.
 "I realize the artistic and even conceptual graphic design fulfills me the most. In art we have enough freedom, and for freedom in design we must fight."
"I have been successful so far in campaigns for the Novi Sad Jazz festival, Infant and other cultural manifestations, and my great goal is to do the capital’s Bitef theatre festival. For art projects I don’t need more than a really modern gallery in which works can look as finished products. Currently I am finishing my master’s degree work Christ-Christ, the New Testament scenes without figuration realised in the modern media through personal symbols. These are just icons I would furnish with a new church and thus return to it the role of the contemporary gallery. These works will be publicly exhibited in autumn, first in Belgrade, then in Novi Sad."
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