The sculptor Zmago Posega was born on May 29, 1959, in Postojna, but lived in Bilje in the Goriška region until he left to study in Ljubljana, where he also had his studio for many years after completing his studies. He entered the Slovenian cultural scene in the early 1980s alongside his generation of classmates, known as Generation ’82. He graduated in 1982 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (professors Drago Tršar, Dušan Tršar, Slavko Tihec), receiving the Prešeren Award for students upon graduation, and three years later completed the second year of a specialized study in sculpture. In 1985, he obtained the status of an independent cultural worker, and in 1995, he was awarded the title of assistant professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. From 1999 until his untimely death on January 23, 2009, he was employed at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, first as an assistant professor of sculpture in the Department of Restoration, where he taught sculpture and sculpture material technology, and from 2002 as the head of that department, a role he held until 2006. In the last year of his life, he resided in Nova Gorica, where he was completing a public commission – a sculpture dedicated to the builders of Nova Gorica. The Municipality of Nova Gorica posthumously awarded him the France Bevk Award. Since the early 1980s, Zmago Posega exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions both domestically and abroad. He is also well-known to the public as the creator of numerous public monuments.