Marko Ubović is a visual artist and assistant professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. He studied Fine Arts in Basel, Switzerland, and New Media Arts and Photography in Serbia, where he earned a PhD in Fine Arts in 2025. His interdisciplinary practice spans video, photography, drawing, installation, and text. Since 2007, his work has been exhibited at festivals and exhibitions in 16 countries. He has received several international awards, including first prizes at the Interference Festival (Poland, 2017) and The Alternative Film Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2025).
Prizes and Nominees
- 2025: Best Experimental Film Award (Long Short category), The Alternative Film Festival (Winter 2025 Edition), Toronto, Canada
- 2017: First Prize, Experimental Short Visual Form category, Interference Festival, Gdańsk, Poland
- 2017: Jury Award Nominee, Shared Sight International Short Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 2016: Young Art Award (one of four recipients), Art Forum Ute Barth, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2011: Best Comic Book Script Award, The Balkans Festival of Young Comics Creators, Leskovac, Serbia
- 2010: Academy of Arts Award for the Most Successful Artistic Work (New Media), Novi Sad, Serbia
- 2009: Second Prize for Drawing, International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Gallery Trag, Belgrade, Serbia
Memberships
- videokunst.ch
- ULUS (United Artists of Fine Arts, Serbia)
Exhibitions, Festivals and Screenings
2025
- AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
- Moscow International Video Art Exhibition, ZIL Culture Centre, Moscow, Russia
- ProFiFest, Prokuplje Film Festival, Prokuplje, Serbia
- Mister Vorky, International Festival of Cinema Art, Ruma, Serbia
- Videomedeja, International New Media Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Sound and Music Film Festival Makedonska 21, Belgrade, Serbia
- First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Volume 8, Iver Heath, United Kingdom
2024
- ZEZ x KLET, group exhibition, Gallery KLET, Zagreb, Croatia
- Differences, group exhibition, Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
2023
- Playing with Language, group exhibition, Gallery Remont, Belgrade, Serbia
- Land art in Vojvodina – Reconstruction, group exhibition, Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Aiming at Me? – Between Virtual Image and Reflected Thought, solo exhibition as part of Alternative Film/Video Festival, Students’ City Cultural Center in Belgrade, Serbia
2022
- Videomedeja, International New Media Art Festival, Svilara Cultural Station, Novi Sad, Serbia
- October Art Salon, Kovin Cultural Center, Kovin, Serbia
- 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
- 85th Autumn Exhibition, group exhibition, ULUS, Gallery Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia
- Spring Exhibition 2022, group exhibition, Gallery Stara Kapetanija, Belgrade, Serbia
2019
- Art Now, group exhibition, National Bank of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
- Shared Sight Throwback, screening, Cinema Victoria, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018
- Anthology Film Archives, screening, New York, USA
- School of Visual Arts, screening, Department of Photography, Video and Related Media, New York, USA
- Millennium Film Journal No. 68, review of The Valley of the Shadow of Death by Grahame Weinbren
- Experiments in Cinema v 13.6, Albuquerque, USA
- MADATAC, video art category, Madrid, Spain
2017
- Interference festival, Gdańsk, Poland
- Shared Sight International Short Film festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Videomedeja, International New Media Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Richterfest, Science and Art Space, Moscow, Russia
- Espacio Enter, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
2016
- Young Art Award, group exhibition, Art Forum Ute Barth – Gallery of modern and contemporary art, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
- Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale, Milano, Italy
- Exhibition of new ULUS-members, Gallery Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia
2014
- Short Glimpses of Happiness, solo exhibition, Nova galerija, Belgrade, Serbia
- Zoom – Zbliżenia International film festival, video art category, BWA Art Gallery, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2013
- Videomedeja, International New Media Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Streaming Festival, online screening, the Netherlands
- V.A.L. Festival, screening, Bor, Serbia
2012
- Shortz, International Short Video and Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- The International Stage Design Student’s Work Exchange, group exhibition, Peking, China
- Mikser festival 2012, New Academy of Arts student exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
- Student exhibition, Nova galerija, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
- Golden Pen of Belgrade, International Biennale of Illustration, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade
- The Balkans Festival of Young Comics Creators, Leskovac, Serbia
- Little Prince, exhibition of Academy of Arts award recipients, Multimedia Centre of the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
- Videoformes, Clermond-Ferrrand, France
- ART EXPO, exhibition of Academy of Arts award recipients, Novi Sad Fair, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010
- Perspektive, group exhibition, Art Klinika Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
- Videomedeja, International New Media Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Moving Frames Festival, Mytilene, Greece
- Differences, group exhibition, SKC factory, Novi Sad
- Diploma exhibition of Academy of Arts, gallery Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Avifest, Festival of alternative video expresion, Podgorica, Montenegro
- International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
- Niš Art Foundation, group exhibition, Niš, Novi Sad and Belgrade, Serbia
- Coordinates of Exhibition Spaces, group exhibition, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Rhythm of Euphoria, solo exhibition, gallery Trag, Belgrade, Serbia
- International Exhibition of Miniature Art, gallery Trag, Belgrade, Serbia
2009
- Shortz, International festival of student’s film and video, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Startfest, International Student Art Festival, Multimedia Centre, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Novosadski salon, group exhibition, Poklon zbirka Rajka Mamuzića, Novi Sad
2008
- Baerwart, group exhibition, gallery Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
2007
- Clair Obscur Filmfestival, Basel, Switzerland
- Student group exhibition, gallery Billerbeck, Basel, Switzerland
- Night of Museums, group exhibition, Gallery Klingental, Basel, Switzerland