For the third time in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade, YUSTAT presented Yugoslav stage production at the Main exhibition of the Biennial of Stage Design.

This exhibition was of particular importance for YUSTAT as it illustrated the national theatre production over an extremely difficult period, which included NATO intervention in FRY.

Despite the sweeping crisis in the country, the Biennial selection was considerably enlarged in comparison to previous exhibitions. YUSTAT’s board selected 292 works in the five principal categories (event design, applied stage arts, craftsmanship, performing space and promotion of performing events), presented in the Biennial’s catalogue.

The Grand Prix of the 3rd Biennial of Stage Design was awarded to Miodrag Tabacki, set and costume designer, for the "richness, diversity and complexity of his two years’ outstanding opus" whose quality strongly countered general decline in Yugoslav theatre production. - Zoran Eric, theatre composer, and - Centre for Cultural Decontamination and the festival City Theatre Budva received Special Biennial awards for achievements in technical production.

The following artists received Biennial awards in the main categories:
- Jelena Stokuca (costume design), Juraj Fabri (set design) and Isidora Zebeljan (music), in the Event Design category
- Atelje 212 lighting team, in the category of Applied Stage Arts - Lighting Design
- Workshops of the National Theatre, Belgrade in the category Craftsmanship
- Festival BELEF in the category Promotion of Performing Events

Special tribute was awarded to the Royal Embassy of Norway, National Theatre/Nepszinhaz from Subotica and National Theatre Uzice for active cooperation in staging plays by H. Ibsen.

The members of the Selection Board of the 3rd Biennial of Stage Design:

Tanja Petrovic, musicologist, Chair of the Selection Board
Nebojsa Bradic, theatre director
Miomir Mijic, stage acoustics engineer
Branko Pavic, visual artist
Milosav Marinovic, dramatist, Director of the Biennial of Stage Design
Radivoje Dinulovic, architect, President of YUSTAT
Irena Sentevska, architect, Coordinator of the Board

The members of the 3rd Biennial of Stage Design Jury:

Milos Kreckovic, dramatist (President of the Jury)
Marija Bujic, art historian
Dusan Petrovic, theatre director
Milos Petrovic, composer
Tanja Petrovic, Nebojsa Bradic, Miomir Mijic and Milosav Marinovic /selectors/.

Within the Biennial program, YUSTAT for the first time hosted the third edition of one of its most significant international events – multidisciplinary conference in the "Spectacle-City-Identity" series, titled "Balkan City – A Stage for the End of XX Century". The Biennial program also included the annual meeting of the Education Commission of OISTAT, held in Belgrade and Subotica. Along with a number of public presentations and lectures within conference programs, YUSTAT presented works by the young Yugoslav designer Aleksandra Zdravkovic in Novi Sad and exhibition of entries to YUSTAT's student competition "Balkan City – A Stage for the XXI Century" in the Centre for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade.