Visual artist & graphic designer — Skopje
Marko
Trpeski
Literary illustration · Surrealist collage · Book & identity design · Est. 2016
Marko Trpeski (b. 1990, Skopje) — and, thank god, he almost always presents himself under the same name and surname (a significant detail, you'll admit). Officially, his Curriculum Vitae lists him as a graphic designer by vocation, with a place of dwelling in Skopje, working where literary illustration meets visual poetics and narrative form. Trained at the Academy for Graphic Design (Semos), where he was named student of his generation, he has spent the past decade shaping the visual identity of the publishing house Antolog — 800+ book covers and counting — alongside Polica, ArtKonekt and Literatura, accumulating enough of them to let the work do the talking, as he prefers.
He isn't fond of talking about himself, and when he must — pressed by circumstance (or by the scruff of the neck) — he'll admit to a few preoccupations: a hobbyist seeker and uncertified, yet thoroughly professional, collector of metaphors; a freelance room-mummy; on occasion a druid on a work-for-hire contract, in an unsubdued, idealistic attempt to brew his own mix of reality. Unwavering, he waits for his works to speak… and, well, there you go.
Among the rare contemporary artists in Macedonia working in the tradition of surrealist collage — continuing and reimagining this rich and rare practice for contemporary times.— acad. Vlada Urošević
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Solo & group
exhibitions
Awards & Recognition
8 · 2014 — 20262nd2026„Saturnin“Best cover design · Book Fair
Antolog 3rd2026„Kula kraj more“Artistic & graphic editing · Book Fair
Antolog 3rd2025„Tri Marii“Best cover design · Book Fair
Literatura 1st2024„Ne kažuvam“Best cover design · Book Fair
Polica 3rd2024„Kabinet na čuda i dzidovi od ogledala“Best cover design · Book Fair
Antolog 3rd2023„Teloto vo koe treba da se živee“Best cover design · Book Fair (MAI)
Polica 3rd2022Fredrik Backman seriesArtistic & graphic editing · Book Fair (MAI)
Antolog 1st2014„Mirisa na prolet“ competitionAcademy for Graphic Design · Student of the generation
Semos
Selected Exhibitions
SkopjeNov 2025„Sinhroniciteti“ — exhibition presentationGallery Metanoja · Skopje
Feb 2025„Metafora — Žito, kakol i parčinja staklo“Gallery Metanoja · Skopje
Dec 2024 – Jan 2025„Barokna podmornica“ · with acad. Vlada UroševićMANU · Skopje
Dec 2022„Metafora — Pogled zad ogledalata“Café-bookshop Bukva · Skopje
Published Works
Samizdat2025„Sinhroniciteti — Čuvari na prikaznata“A game for creative writing · Ministry of Culture & Gjorče Petrov · Samizdat
2024„Metafora — Žito, kakol i parčinja staklo“Authorial graphics & textual miniatures · Samizdat
2022„Metafora — Pogled zad ogledalata“Authorial graphics & textual miniatures · Ministry of Culture · Samizdat
Selected Clients
OngoingAntolog · 8 yrsPolicaArtKonektLiteratura
Founder of the creative studio Metafora and co-founder of the Skopje Collage Collective — initiatives devoted to contemporary visual experiment and symbolic narrative. Educator in digital illustration and collage aesthetics.
