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Solo
Ani labuť ani Lůna
7. 6. - 29. 9. 2025 | Gallery of Art in Litoměřice, Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
curator: Alena Beránková
https://www.galerie-ltm.cz/2025/06/04/milos-sejn-ani-labut-ani-luna/
7. 6. - 29. 9. 2025 | Gallery of Art in Litoměřice, Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
curator: Alena Beránková
https://www.galerie-ltm.cz/2025/06/04/milos-sejn-ani-labut-ani-luna/
ZATVÁŘÍ / COUNTENANCE
6. 5. - 22. 6. 2025 | ATELIÉR JOSEFA SUDKA, Praha
curator: Petr Vaňous
Eye of the fly, 1959
Zebín hill and Sun, 1983
ZATVÁŘÍ / COUNTENANCE
With his multilayered work, conceptual artist Miloš Šejn (1947) enters the world of phenomena in order to communicate the core and contours of human presence in a new and distinctive way.
These are not only phenomena associated with the complex perception of place and time on their most general and essential levels. Often, it is also an exploration of incidental relationships that are hidden, obscured, or layered over time, relating to human memory, personal history, factual events, and mémoire involontaire. A particular phenomenon of this kind is the family memory of the sculptor Hana Wichterlová (1903–1990), who maintained a studio in Újezd, not far from Josef Sudek's studio, and whom Miloš Šejn knew personally as a child.
The exhibition layout for the Josef Sudek Studio creates an intersection of place, time, memory, and
media traces (photographs, videos, drawings). Sudek's photograph of Wichterlová's sculpture, entitled Black Head, plays a significant role here. Her closed eyes serve as the trigger for events, with inner vision as their main referent — the vision that connects the hiddenness of thought with the face of what is seen. Whether it be a human face, a face encountered as a metaphor for a place, a window, or a view. This theme is also reflected in the title of the exhibition, COUNTENANCE / ZATVÁŘÍ. The Czech neologism precisely captures the territory where any fleeting experience transforms into a timeless, lasting essence — an essence that does not disappear by being forgotten but, once formulated, continues to exist forever within a different order of validity.
6. 5. - 22. 6. 2025 | ATELIÉR JOSEFA SUDKA, Praha
curator: Petr Vaňous
Eye of the fly, 1959
Zebín hill and Sun, 1983ZATVÁŘÍ / COUNTENANCE
These are not only phenomena associated with the complex perception of place and time on their most general and essential levels. Often, it is also an exploration of incidental relationships that are hidden, obscured, or layered over time, relating to human memory, personal history, factual events, and mémoire involontaire. A particular phenomenon of this kind is the family memory of the sculptor Hana Wichterlová (1903–1990), who maintained a studio in Újezd, not far from Josef Sudek's studio, and whom Miloš Šejn knew personally as a child.
The exhibition layout for the Josef Sudek Studio creates an intersection of place, time, memory, and
media traces (photographs, videos, drawings). Sudek's photograph of Wichterlová's sculpture, entitled Black Head, plays a significant role here. Her closed eyes serve as the trigger for events, with inner vision as their main referent — the vision that connects the hiddenness of thought with the face of what is seen. Whether it be a human face, a face encountered as a metaphor for a place, a window, or a view. This theme is also reflected in the title of the exhibition, COUNTENANCE / ZATVÁŘÍ. The Czech neologism precisely captures the territory where any fleeting experience transforms into a timeless, lasting essence — an essence that does not disappear by being forgotten but, once formulated, continues to exist forever within a different order of validity.
VYVOLANÉ OBRAZY
10. 12. 2024 – 16. 3. 2025 | Galerie Rohovka – Vzlet, Praha
kurátor: Miloš Vojtěchovský
VZLET
Vyvolané obrazy
10. 12. 2024 – 16. 3. 2025 | Galerie Rohovka – Vzlet, Praha
kurátor: Miloš Vojtěchovský
VZLET
Vyvolané obrazy
Memory deposit
Presented by: Sylva Poláková
Guests: Miloš Šejn, Petr Vaňous
27.05. - 27.05.2024 | 6 PM | cinema Ponrepo, Prague
Video of Miloš Šejn's work from 1989–2022Presented by: Sylva Poláková
Guests: Miloš Šejn, Petr Vaňous
Since the beginning of the 1960s, Miloš Šejn has been subjecting nature to subjective artistic research - whether the historical humanised or the still wild nature. Performances in which the face, inarticulate language or the contact of hands and feet with materials and the given environment are accentuated are combined with expressive drawing and with digital visual means. Deposit of memory is the title of the last exhibition of the still active creator, which took place in the spring of 2024 in the Prague gallery Jilská 14. Under the same title, the Ponrepo cinema will present an author's selection of video works by Miloš Šejn from 1989-2022, in which a dive into his own memories.
The screening will take place with the personal participation of the author Miloš Šejn and in the presence of the curator of the exhibition Petr Vaňous. The event takes place in cooperation with the gallery Jilská 14 (Memory deposit, 6 March - 27 April 2024).
The screening will take place with the personal participation of the author Miloš Šejn and in the presence of the curator of the exhibition Petr Vaňous. The event takes place in cooperation with the gallery Jilská 14 (Memory deposit, 6 March - 27 April 2024).
https://nfa.cz/cs/39096-depozit-pameti-video-prace-milose-sejna-z-let-1988-2022?screening=39097
https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/cs/revue/detail/podilet-se-na-pretvareni
Group
Les lieux de rêverie / Lenka Falušiová & Miloš Šejn
10. 9. - 28. 10. 2025 | Church of St. Nicholas and St. Anne, Telce
curator: Jaroslav Anděl
There are places that seem to hold a secret power over us—places that enchant, that draw us in. They are places of depth, where one may discover oneself, yet just as easily become lost. Often, these are realms governed by the elements: water, fire, earth, and air—sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in triads. They are sites that stir the imagination, that invite reverie, where one perceives the living web of connection between all things. Dreamers are those with the sensitivity to recognize such places, to enter into their depths. And though each of us carries within a fragment of the dreamer, and though almost any place may become a place of reverie, it seems that certain sites are, by their very nature, destined for it.
Some artists belong to this lineage of dreamers, drawn to particular places and elements, as the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once so piercingly described. Lenka Falušiová is such a dreamer of the forest, which has remained for her a primal source of inspiration, encoded since childhood in the Jeseníky mountains. For her, the forest is an image of the living, breathing world—one in which human, animal, and plant exist side by side, on the same plane. The tree, that ancient cosmological symbol, rises again and again in her works. “Trees are the guardians of the forest,” she says. Yet Lenka is not a Bachelardian dreamer of any one of the four elements; she is, rather, a dreamer of light. If Bachelard turned to the verses of great poets to reveal the imagination of the elements, Lenka’s works may serve as a path toward the phenomenology of light itself.
Miloš Šejn, by contrast, is a dreamer of the earth. His place of initiation is Zebín, a volcanic hill near Jičín, where he has lived since youth. Zebín shaped his first painterly gestures and guided his further artistic journey toward ever more direct forms of contact with chosen sites—whether in the form of imprints of terrain, the gathering and testing of natural pigments, or performative acts of intervention. And although over the decades Miloš has engaged with other elements—water among them—it seems to me that his imagination feeds most deeply on the forces of the earth. Thus, as I linger over his works, the word chthonic comes insistently to mind. From the Greek chthōn, earth, it names what belongs to the soil, the subterranean, the underworld.
The work Delimitation of Space with Fire (1982) brings together two archetypal images of humankind’s earliest imaginings: fire and the cave. Here, fire recalls not only our primeval intimacy with flame but also the cataclysmic history of the earth itself, bound to volcanic upheaval. Šejn’s cave is a chamber of reverie, opening into the depths of human history as well as into the deep time of the earth.
Jaroslav Anděl
10. 9. - 28. 10. 2025 | Church of St. Nicholas and St. Anne, Telce
curator: Jaroslav Anděl
Places of Dreamers
There are places that seem to hold a secret power over us—places that enchant, that draw us in. They are places of depth, where one may discover oneself, yet just as easily become lost. Often, these are realms governed by the elements: water, fire, earth, and air—sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs, sometimes in triads. They are sites that stir the imagination, that invite reverie, where one perceives the living web of connection between all things. Dreamers are those with the sensitivity to recognize such places, to enter into their depths. And though each of us carries within a fragment of the dreamer, and though almost any place may become a place of reverie, it seems that certain sites are, by their very nature, destined for it.
Some artists belong to this lineage of dreamers, drawn to particular places and elements, as the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once so piercingly described. Lenka Falušiová is such a dreamer of the forest, which has remained for her a primal source of inspiration, encoded since childhood in the Jeseníky mountains. For her, the forest is an image of the living, breathing world—one in which human, animal, and plant exist side by side, on the same plane. The tree, that ancient cosmological symbol, rises again and again in her works. “Trees are the guardians of the forest,” she says. Yet Lenka is not a Bachelardian dreamer of any one of the four elements; she is, rather, a dreamer of light. If Bachelard turned to the verses of great poets to reveal the imagination of the elements, Lenka’s works may serve as a path toward the phenomenology of light itself.
Miloš Šejn, by contrast, is a dreamer of the earth. His place of initiation is Zebín, a volcanic hill near Jičín, where he has lived since youth. Zebín shaped his first painterly gestures and guided his further artistic journey toward ever more direct forms of contact with chosen sites—whether in the form of imprints of terrain, the gathering and testing of natural pigments, or performative acts of intervention. And although over the decades Miloš has engaged with other elements—water among them—it seems to me that his imagination feeds most deeply on the forces of the earth. Thus, as I linger over his works, the word chthonic comes insistently to mind. From the Greek chthōn, earth, it names what belongs to the soil, the subterranean, the underworld.
The work Delimitation of Space with Fire (1982) brings together two archetypal images of humankind’s earliest imaginings: fire and the cave. Here, fire recalls not only our primeval intimacy with flame but also the cataclysmic history of the earth itself, bound to volcanic upheaval. Šejn’s cave is a chamber of reverie, opening into the depths of human history as well as into the deep time of the earth.
Jaroslav Anděl
Grafika roku 2024 & 30. Cena V. Boudníka
12. 9. - 12. 10. 2025 | GOMA Česká galerie moderního umění, Betlémské náměstí 8, Praha 1
Graphic Art of the Year is an exhibition project with a long-standing tradition and represents a unique event within the Czech Republic, dedicated to the presentation and dissemination of contemporary printmaking across a wide spectrum of Czech artists. Established in 1994, it takes the form of an annual nationwide competition and exhibition focused on current artistic production in the field of printmaking. Each year, the competition attracts hundreds of distinguished Czech artists as well as students. The exhibition serves as an important platform for fostering intergenerational artistic dialogue and provides both theorists and artists with the opportunity to evaluate current tendencies and developments in contemporary printmaking.
12. 9. - 12. 10. 2025 | GOMA Česká galerie moderního umění, Betlémské náměstí 8, Praha 1
Graphic Art of the Year is an exhibition project with a long-standing tradition and represents a unique event within the Czech Republic, dedicated to the presentation and dissemination of contemporary printmaking across a wide spectrum of Czech artists. Established in 1994, it takes the form of an annual nationwide competition and exhibition focused on current artistic production in the field of printmaking. Each year, the competition attracts hundreds of distinguished Czech artists as well as students. The exhibition serves as an important platform for fostering intergenerational artistic dialogue and provides both theorists and artists with the opportunity to evaluate current tendencies and developments in contemporary printmaking.
Concrete Autumn 2025 - CHATRNÝ 100
6. 9. - 4. 10. 2025 | KK3, Hradec Králové
kurátor: Pavla Myslíková
6. 9. - 4. 10. 2025 | KK3, Hradec Králové
kurátor: Pavla Myslíková
A BURNT LANDSCAPE
Nová Perla
Kyjov 37, 40747 Krásná Lípa
curators: Tereza Nováková, Helush Yiraq
Miloš Šejn: Seen in the Fire, 1985–2025
Nová Perla
Nová Perla
Kyjov 37, 40747 Krásná Lípa
curators: Tereza Nováková, Helush Yiraq
Miloš Šejn: Seen in the Fire, 1985–2025Nová Perla
Performance
Deset doteků
10. 9. 2025 | KAVKA, Praha
10. 9. 2025 | KAVKA, Praha
Rerformamatteurs
David Helán / Tomáš Ruller / Miloš Šejn
Conditions of Art / Performance Festival 31. 8. 2025
PRAGOVKA GALLERY
Kolbenova 923/34a, 190 00 Praha 9
Trojneférformeří plodještěři kapacitoslavce, proformaautorů předestihne na pevné podstavě literárně nonsenzuální nezavázaného spavce, předeimprovizorium tělesnosti, psa a savce, psavce, abrakababrák a sice sytě nespacifikovatelné přemrštěně odreagovatělé, nebezpečně nesčeřeně, bez čeřeně bezvečeře nepečeně zpečetěně, desatera jesetera ecetera zkoncenprněle stěže specifikovatelné psotník, časoprůzorově za hranicemi zábran zahraď hydroničeným, tni jazykům ctnosti, slovo osol sobě, posel nepopošel samo o sově, osel napapouščen až o uzel v první osobě. Bdělej jelen vtělen jedem jedněm tělem, shalomé polámanej zpomalenejm slalomem, black sabatikán dělej spěchej prdlej sprše prchej, děj se dědem, jeden, dva, tři vzpěněj bědem předepělejm dětem vzadu nadváhu, nedělej se jen se vzdělej, dřepem křepěj, na jazykovědomém základu, pepřem předem přenejm lpěj ze mě spěj sem steč na váhu, strč sněm prsteník vstřeh popostrč těm návnadu.
David Helán / Tomáš Ruller / Miloš Šejn
Conditions of Art / Performance Festival 31. 8. 2025
PRAGOVKA GALLERY
Kolbenova 923/34a, 190 00 Praha 9
9. festival performance
28. - 30. 9. 2024 | Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Praha
9. festival performance / Letná
9. festival performance / Veletržák
28. - 30. 9. 2024 | Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Praha
9. festival performance / Letná
9. festival performance / Veletržák
7° international art symposium
7. - 13. 7. 2024 Sloup, Sloupsko Šošůvské Caves, CZ
"We only talk to ourselves. We don't talk to the rivers, we don't listen to the wind and the stars. We interrupted a great conversation. By interrupting this conversation, we broke the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are the result of this spiritual 'autism'."
(Thomas Berry)
7° is an international art symposium situated in the environment of the Moravian Karst nature reserve. The name 7° symbolically comes from the temperature that is constant in the caves throughout the year (reported as 7-9°C). The purpose of the festival is to support interdisciplinary dialogue and develop artistic practice related to the themes of prehistoric art, karst caves, sustainable tourism, prehistoric architecture, natural sciences, anthropology, ecology.
The purpose of the festival is to support interdisciplinary dialogue and develop artistic practice related to the themes of prehistoric art, karst caves, sustainable tourism, prehistoric architecture, natural sciences, anthropology, ecology.
Participants in 2024
The jury led by Jana Písaříková and Ondřej Chrobák selected the following participants:
7. - 13. 7. 2024 Sloup, Sloupsko Šošůvské Caves, CZ
"We only talk to ourselves. We don't talk to the rivers, we don't listen to the wind and the stars. We interrupted a great conversation. By interrupting this conversation, we broke the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are the result of this spiritual 'autism'."
(Thomas Berry)
7° is an international art symposium situated in the environment of the Moravian Karst nature reserve. The name 7° symbolically comes from the temperature that is constant in the caves throughout the year (reported as 7-9°C). The purpose of the festival is to support interdisciplinary dialogue and develop artistic practice related to the themes of prehistoric art, karst caves, sustainable tourism, prehistoric architecture, natural sciences, anthropology, ecology.
The purpose of the festival is to support interdisciplinary dialogue and develop artistic practice related to the themes of prehistoric art, karst caves, sustainable tourism, prehistoric architecture, natural sciences, anthropology, ecology.
Participants in 2024
The jury led by Jana Písaříková and Ondřej Chrobák selected the following participants:
Olga Krása-Ryabets, Kryštof Krása, Lenka Pecharová (CAN, CZ)
Miloš Šejn (CZ)
Thomas Geiger (A)
Rudolf Sikora (SK)
Anna Jurkiewicz (PL)
Roman Zotov-Mikshin (CZ)
Dominik Forman (CZ)
Veronika Hudcová (CZ)
https://www.7festival.com/
Special
Bohemiae Rosa
S i t e B o d y E x p l o r a t i o n 26 - 31 August 2025
Lusatian and Zittau Mountains – The Czech Republic & Germany & Poland
International Interdisciplinary Open–Air Workshop for artists and dancers exploring the relation between body, art and landscape led by Frank van de Ven and Milos Sejn
S i t e B o d y E x p l o r a t i o n 26 - 31 August 2025
Lusatian and Zittau Mountains – The Czech Republic & Germany & Poland
International Interdisciplinary Open–Air Workshop for artists and dancers exploring the relation between body, art and landscape led by Frank van de Ven and Milos Sejn
POINTS OF REFLECTION
16. 6. - 30. 9. 2025 | Kutná Hora - intervention in public space
curator: Petr Vaňous
Miloš Šejn: ONETEMAN / UNESCO UNITES
16. 6. - 30. 9. 2025 | Kutná Hora - intervention in public space
curator: Petr Vaňous
Miloš Šejn: ONETEMAN / UNESCO UNITESThe ambient band ONETEMAN is a sound installation for the Church of Our Lady on the Theme in Kutná Hora, comprising authentic sonic recordings of walking through medieval slag fields in Markovičky near Bylany and subsequent ambient manipulations with the collected material in the chapel of St. Anne on the hill of the same name near Jičín. The chapel, built around 1670, was designed by Jean-Babtiste Mathey.
Stroking Bodies - An Anatomy of Traces
14. – 15.12. 2024 | Centrum Plující oblaka, Mlýnská 6/3, Praha 6
A workshop for dancers and artists exploring the relation between body and art by Milos Sejn and Frank van de Ven
flyer
14. – 15.12. 2024 | Centrum Plující oblaka, Mlýnská 6/3, Praha 6
A workshop for dancers and artists exploring the relation between body and art by Milos Sejn and Frank van de Ven
flyer
PAF 2024 / DIARIES
5. – 8. 12. 2024 | PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc
The 23rd edition of PAF Olomouc – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art – will take place from December the 5th to the 8th, 2024. This year's festival theme is Diaries. Diaries can take the form of stories or notes, they can be a purposefully invested work in self-reflection, an unintended consequence of time spent on social networks, or any other form of periodic writing. But all these forms of recording raise the question – are diaries meant to be read?
Diaries take the form of narratives or notes that do not only relate to the calendar’s timeline. Diaries can also function with gaps and pauses in their records. Diaries are a dialogue with technology, where the transformation of thinking takes place based on the touch of keyboards, typewriters, recordings on a camera or a recorder.
Diary as a survival strategy. Diary for sharing. Diary as an emancipation tool. Diary as a manifestation. As a law of attraction. Diary as a memorial device. Diary as a marketing strategy. As a profession. As a source of income. As a promotion tool. Gossips. About you and others. Diary as a description. Of the weather, sport results, achievements, mood. Diary as a habit tracker. Diary for keeping history alive. Diary as an interpretation. Diary as therapy. Diary as telling the stories of others. Diary as telling your story.
Jan Bara / Qow & Theo Alexander Stepan Broz / Jeanie Crystal / DJ GÄP / Michelle Williams Gamaker / Julia Grybos / Honour / Andrea Pruchova Hruzova / Basim Magdy / Zein Majali / Olan Monk / Nicoleta Mures / Sylva Poláková / Emily Pope / George Finlay Ramsay / RRRR+A / Milos Sejn / Coby Sey / Marie Sprinc / Petr Sprinc / Medard Zeman / Barbora Zentkova / Isama Zing
PAF
5. – 8. 12. 2024 | PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc
The 23rd edition of PAF Olomouc – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art – will take place from December the 5th to the 8th, 2024. This year's festival theme is Diaries. Diaries can take the form of stories or notes, they can be a purposefully invested work in self-reflection, an unintended consequence of time spent on social networks, or any other form of periodic writing. But all these forms of recording raise the question – are diaries meant to be read?
Diaries take the form of narratives or notes that do not only relate to the calendar’s timeline. Diaries can also function with gaps and pauses in their records. Diaries are a dialogue with technology, where the transformation of thinking takes place based on the touch of keyboards, typewriters, recordings on a camera or a recorder.
Diary as a survival strategy. Diary for sharing. Diary as an emancipation tool. Diary as a manifestation. As a law of attraction. Diary as a memorial device. Diary as a marketing strategy. As a profession. As a source of income. As a promotion tool. Gossips. About you and others. Diary as a description. Of the weather, sport results, achievements, mood. Diary as a habit tracker. Diary for keeping history alive. Diary as an interpretation. Diary as therapy. Diary as telling the stories of others. Diary as telling your story.
Jan Bara / Qow & Theo Alexander Stepan Broz / Jeanie Crystal / DJ GÄP / Michelle Williams Gamaker / Julia Grybos / Honour / Andrea Pruchova Hruzova / Basim Magdy / Zein Majali / Olan Monk / Nicoleta Mures / Sylva Poláková / Emily Pope / George Finlay Ramsay / RRRR+A / Milos Sejn / Coby Sey / Marie Sprinc / Petr Sprinc / Medard Zeman / Barbora Zentkova / Isama Zing
PAF