Marko Pogačnik (born in Kranj, 1944) is a Slovenian sculptor associated with land art, geomancy and writing. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, graduating in 1967, and from 1965 to 1971 belonged to the international group OHO, active in conceptual art and land art. His work has followed a personal line that links art with the earth and the landscape.
In 1971 he founded with his family and friends an artists' community, the Šempas Family, in the Vipava Valley, which lasted until 1979. In the mid-1980s he developed what he called "lithopuncture", a form of acupuncture for the earth meant to heal and rebalance places through stone pillars set at chosen points. Using this method he has carried out projects in Germany, Austria, along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and in Salzburg.
In 1991 he was commissioned to design the national coat of arms of Slovenia. He lives and works in Šempas, and the city of Nova Gorica has commissioned several public monuments from him. Since 2008 his work Hologram of Europe, made of 27 pillars for the EU member states and six more for European countries outside the union, has stood in Ljubljana. He received the Jakopič Award in 2008 and the Prešeren Fund Award in 1991, and in 2016 he was named UNESCO Artist for Peace. His legacy sits at the meeting point of contemporary art and ecological and spiritual practices.