The Stranger Than Paradise video project is based on a seven-day concert tour in six countries of the former Yugoslavia - Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia - featuring seven songs that marked the 1950s and 1960s Yugo pop. Concerts were held in homes for the elderly, picked because of their relation to the music.

The aim of Požlep's project is to enter "the cycle of men and the state, which once accounted for brotherhood and unity, now partitioned into seven different republics marked by war", reads a description on the artist's website.

Požlep adds that the project is not a story about Yugoslavia, but about people: "About a human and his eternal wish for change, about the incredible ability to construct and destruct, about love and hate, about birth, life, and death."

The jury moreover said that all works by nominees - apart from Požlep, Neža Knez, Tom Stanič and Boris Beja - were of exceptional quality.

The OHO Award comes with a two-month residency in New York, an exhibition in Ljubljana and Požlep's work being bought by the organisers.

The prize, established in 2006, is given out annually to artists younger than 35 by the Ljubljana-based P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute in cooperation with the New York Foundation for a Civil Society and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Named after the influential Slovenian avant-garde artist group OHO, which was active in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, the prize honours works of art in the field of painting, photography, video, new media and performance.

The award ceremony was held on Friday evening at the Maribor Art Gallery.