Second Place Winner

International Women’s Day 2026

Serbian emerging multidisciplinary artist exploring identity, self-perception, feminism, and the human condition through performance, photography, text, and installation.

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AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK

Awarded in International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Angelina Pajkovic is a Serbian emerging artist and a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of New Media. Through performance, photography, and text, she explores the intersections of personal struggle, social pressures, and self-perception. Her work examines bodily transformations as symbols of inner conflict while raising broader questions of ethics, feminism, consumer society, and human existence. Her practice aims to create visual and conceptual works that encourage reflection and invite audiences to reconsider their role within contemporary social processes.

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About Award-Winning Artwork

Prey for Me

Prey for Me explores the suffocating pressure of confinement through an installation combining hanging photographic prints and a vacuum-sealed presentation. The work reflects the experience of feeling trapped, immobilized, and reduced to a product. Through this metaphor of physical restriction, Angelina Pajkovic examines objectification, self-worth, and the psychological consequences of living within an enclosed and oppressive reality.