From this point onward, Alen Ilijic's interest was in the avant-garde movement, under the influence of Béla Bartók, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Serbian polymedia artist and composer Vladan Radovanović.
The Composition for piano, voice and body movement called Red Faces was premiered at the international music festival 'Stone upon Stone’ which was held in the Symphony Orchestra Hall, 17 April 2015, Niš, Serbia.
Furthermore, in 2016, Ilijic has performed Red Faces in Tel Aviv, Israel at Hateiva, as part of the festival The Unbearable Lightness of Coherency, on 30 January.
During his visit to Israel, he also performed with one of the greatest Israeli vocal artists, Anat Pick, and with Nadav Masel bassist and improviser, at Zimmer, in Tel Aviv.
These compositions are dedicated to all the victims of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp called Semlin during World War II, located in Belgrade, at the time in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
[13] During this occasion, Ilijic also had an exhibition conceived with the paintings on paper which are, in the form of visual scores, deeply connected with music and his compositions.
The exhibition was organized by Augusta Savage Gallery, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States, and it was held from 1 September until 20 November 2020.
[16] Another Ilijic's four paintings as well as the composition Disturbing a Cycle were presented online at the festival Cross Cities 2020, located in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy, from 9 September.
[30] The exclamation 'I can't breathe' was made by Eric Garner, an African American man, 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk after being placed in a police chokehold.
A third solo exhibition I am movable Jasenovac was curated by art historian Milica Ilijic, and held at 'KC Ribnica' Kraljevo, Serbia, in September 2015.
[31] The exhibition is based on the theme of the largest concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia where Serbs, Jews and Roma were killed during World War II (1941–1945).
The commemoration of the Jasenovac’s victims and emphasizing discrimination, specifically Serbs, is in connection with the recent political turmoil in the European Parliament and adoption of the Resolution of Srebrenica.
The project I am movable Jasenovac reveals the absurdity of negative stereotypes about the Roma, Serbs and Jews, which persist in contemporary society.
Going back to the past, to illuminate his own origin, Alen Ilijic has also made a step towards the future: towards equality, justice and dignity.
[32] The project New Media Opera ONGEVARFEN (DISORDERED) started in Graz, Austria, in February 2016, and it is dedicated to one of the most influential Austrian composers and painters of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg.
As inseparable and equal parts with respect to importance, they form a unit showing Ilijic's great polymedia talent.
Zone 2 is the fourth solo, polymedia exhibition by Alen Ilijic, conceived with paintings, prints, ready-mades, video projection and spectral composition which is created for the gallery space.
The project Zone 2 has multiple meanings: it refers to the smaller part of the city where the artist lives, experiencing it in a function of narrow, isolated space, or a detention facility.
Zone 2 shows the attitude of the artist in relation to the wrong perception of the viewer, as a result of the increasing commercialization of art with surface qualities of form.
The project brings an atypical model of the artist's behavior: negative reactions are not in the service of questioning the ideas’ initiatives; on the contrary, they are in a function of additional incentives, as well as an ‘evidence’ of shifting borders of contemporary standards.