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STROKING BODIES - AN ANATOMY OF TRACES14.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Frozen Moments / Fluid Time04.11.2024 - 27.11.2024
LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 202413.06.2024 - 30.09.2024
ANIMA MUNDI | VISIONS – ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR | VENICE 202407.06.2024 - 21.06.2024
Deposit of Memory: Video Works by Miloš Šejn from 1988-202227.05.2024 - 27.05.2024
MEMORY DEPOSIT06.03.2024 - 27.04.2024
KOR . KON . TOI . 0 0 1 – Miloš Šejn / Adriena Šimotová17.11.2023 - 28.04.2024
BECOMING GARDEN…17.09.2023 - 29.10.2023
Heraclitus principle / One hundred years of coal in Czech art16.06.2023 - 22.10.2023
SYMBIOSIS06.06.2023 - 23.06.2023
1 : 1 : 127.05.2023 - 25.08.2023
Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck II02.04.2023 - 28.05.2023
BIRTHDAY16.12.2022 - 19.02.2023
MY WIFE/S SOUL16.11.2022 - 17.12.2022
Face for SU–EN22.10.2022 - 22.10.2022
RAVINES AND GARDENS05.10.2022 - 05.11.2022
Valoch & Valoch / Archeology And Conceptual Art30.09.2022 - 27.08.2023
Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck02.07.2022 - 25.09.2022
AQVA15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022
KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art22.02.2022 - 29.08.2022
EMERGENCY EXIT03.12.2021 - 11.09.2022
MAN IN THE CAVE24.11.2021 - 06.02.2022
ÍHMNÍ30.09.2021 - 28.11.2021
SEMI-OPEN29.09.2021 - 28.11.2021
Prague Biennale 2021 / Re-connect Art03.09.2021 - 07.09.2021
Zdzisław Jurkiewicz. Occurrences25.06.2021 - 21.10.2021
Art Safari 36: TOGETHER05.06.2021 - 11.06.2021
ART, MELANCHOLY AND LAUGH FACES IN THE FACE OF ABSURDITY22.05.2021 - 03.10.2021
KRAJINA + / LANDSCAPE +14.05.2021 - 25.07.2021
WATER18.12.2020 - 06.06.2021
ATLAS NEW CONSTELLATIONS05.12.2020 - 30.05.2021
FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS27.11.2020 - 01.10.2023
PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAINS27.10.2020 - 08.11.2020
Fotograph Festival #X UNEVEN GROUND07.10.2020 - 07.11.2020
Í T H M N29.09.2020 - 31.01.2021
Table and Territory / Table et Territoire26.09.2020 - 27.09.2020
Looking Into The Window19.09.2020 - 31.12.2020
A Pilgrim Who Returns
15.09.2020 - 31.10.2020
Gočár Phenomenon03.09.2020 - 31.10.2020
ART SAFARI 35 – HYDRANT27.06.2020 - 28.06.2020
24h PERFORMANCE14.06.2020 - 15.06.2020
Through the Landscape of K. H. Mácha04.06.2020 - 06.09.2020
NMHTÍ12.05.2020 - 24.06.2020
IDENTITY23.03.2020 - 31.12.2021
Homeplace & Kunka Phenomenon04.03.2020 - 31.07.2020
↗ ASCENT ↙ DESCENT / performance art event23.02.2020 - 23.02.2020
Parallel cinema / Stream, Tree and Stone03.02.2020 - 04.02.2020
Ji.hlava24.10.2019 - 29.10.2019
TRA DUE MONDI16.10.2019 - 16.10.2019
Pilgrims, Refugees, Hermits11.09.2019 - 28.10.2019
The Naked Forms Festival (FNAF)06.09.2019 - 08.09.2019
Sounds / Codes / Images - Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts06.06.2019 - 10.10.2019
rivers, streams, puddles04.06.2019 - 24.06.2019
IL SORRISO DEL LEONE / VENICE TELEPATHIC BODIES01.06.2019 - 24.11.2019
Performance Crossings 201915.05.2019 - 18.05.2019
THEATRUM MUNDI III27.04.2019 - 27.04.2019
Early Manifestations of Action Art in East Bohemia26.04.2019 - 16.06.2019
AQVA MUO26.04.2019 - 28.05.2019
Yellow Rose Fragrance27.03.2019 - 16.06.2019
WÄRMFLASCHE14.12.2018 - 15.12.2018
ART SPACE ECOLOGY15.10.2018 - 31.12.2020
Architecture and Senses12.10.2018 - 14.10.2018
THEATRUM MUNDI II22.09.2018 - 22.09.2018
OPERA CORCONTICA04.09.2018 - 09.10.2018
PRAGUE WILDERNESS – LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 201821.06.2018 - 30.09.2018
Energy of the initial line – gesture, rhythm, movement in contemporary Czech art01.03.2018 - 28.05.2018
IMAGE / BODY / SOUND27.11.2017 - 27.11.2020
EVERY WANDERING ENDS IN THE BEGINNING13.11.2017 - 13.11.2017
(Post)Land Art and the Anthropocene06.11.2017 - 06.11.2017
CS CONCEPTUAL ART OF THE 70s11.10.2017 - 13.01.2018
SONIC SOLAR MOUNTAIN26.08.2017 - 26.08.2017
Bohemiae Rosa25.08.2017 - 31.08.2017
HOW TO EXPLAIN IMAGES TO AN INVISIBLE INTERSPACE02.08.2017 - 10.08.2017
LAPSody 2017 – The Bubble24.05.2017 - 27.05.2017
ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH21.04.2017 - 29.05.2017
LIQUID ROOMS / THE LABYRINTH10.02.2017 - 28.02.2017
LANDSCAPE20.12.2016 - 12.02.2017
The Landscape, Art and Photography | Contemporary Artworks in the Landscape01.11.2016 - 12.01.2017
Branches | Nature art – variations26.07.2016 - 16.10.2016
AGARA / Hommage à la Peinture04.04.2016 - 31.05.2016
SPEECH MELODIES19.11.2015 - 08.01.2016
SELÉNÉ / BECOMING A LUNAR FACE TELEPATHICALLY28.09.2015 - 28.09.2015
FACIALITY05.09.2015 - 05.09.2015
SOLAR MOUNTAIN20.09.2014 - 09.09.9999
MICHALEK / ŠEIN27.11.2013 - 12.01.2014
IL SORRISO DEL LEONE01.06.2013 - 24.11.2013
FACIALITY / Space of the Memory and an Immediate Space23.10.2012 - 24.10.2012
Faces / Face as the phenomenon in videoart20.06.2012 - 16.09.2012
ARCHIVES & CABINETS14.06.2012 - 02.09.2012
The Written Face for SU-EN28.01.2012 - 28.01.2012
Finally Together07.09.2011 - 14.10.2011
B/L – Dedicated to Carolus Linnaeus15.06.2010 - 29.08.2010
BEING LANDSCAPE25.03.2010 - 06.06.2010
Gardening10.03.2009 - 13.03.2009
Cartusiae Waldiczensis29.11.2008 - 01.03.2009
LANDSCAPE UNDER TOTALITARIAN16.09.2008 - 30.11.2008
Í T H M N
Art Space NOV / Pardubice
The landscape record became a kind of map of my relationship to the place. Miloš Šejn
If images are maps, they are created not only by observation, but also by touching and experiencing. Touch is tactile communication, we also use the word metaphorically, we touch things, objects, people, problems, questions, answers. In the exhibition, named somewhat mysteriously, we realize that art also functions as a new possibility for the spiritual contact of man with man, the creator with the viewer, for example through the landscape. In his work and in his life, Miloš Šejn is connected with the landscape, with experimental surveys and with the ancient mythical form of the country, which he passes through, searches, touches and experiences first-hand. Šejn is as much a painter as a performer with experience on the edge of body-art, body art tapping limits, body boundaries. The process of knowing nature takes place not only through the distant senses: sight and hearing, which we can use at a distance, but also through touch and walking. In this kind of knowledge of the natural world, we literally carry our skin to the market. We have to get in very close contact with what we want to know. We do not look through the glass of a microscope or binoculars, we use the surface of our body, fingers, palms, hands, cheeks, feet, real physicality. In this empiricism, art obviously goes much further than science, although the two paths are different ways and tools of human knowledge…
Miloš Šejn: Gardening, 2020
The artist comes into direct contact with the natural order, with streams, hills, stones, water, light, clay, swamp, shrubs, plants, leaves, trees. Perceptions and experiences can be recorded through painting, sound recording, photography, video or language. It is written about Miloš Šejn that he canceled the easel for the painting, the canvas lost its frame, he works on the ground. More than brushes, he uses prints of wood, stems, fingers, the whole body, sprinkling and dripping, rubbing materials against each other… He also eliminated the difference between a record and a poem. Texts created during the creative process are both.
The universe Í T H M N includes acoustics, captured sound and emitted sound. Part of the creative action is the flow of speech coming naturally, irrationally, the author records and rewrites it. It records the process of creation of a work, usually identical to the process of recognizing a specific place. Rediscovering speech to reconcile with what we see and what we can touch. The point is to get to the stage where the language becomes understandable again. Where does self-talk come from? In the mouth, in the brain, in touch? Or perhaps in the space between nature and man? With the camera on his forehead, the author intervenes with shadows, the camera on a tripod captures sounds, wind, jackdaws, water flow, noise, his own words. Letter soup and watering cans contrast with artificial audio and video recordings. As if we were to disassemble the watering cans and disperse to irrigate the land we can cover.
An image is a record of an event, a map, a structure. The performative origin is revealed by GPS coordinates specifying the area where the image was created. The mysterious word Agara, the Celtic name of the river Ohře, is often repeated in the names of the canvases. For the Hallstatt and La Tène culture, it was a lunar river, agile and clear water full of salmon. Javorí potok can be located in the Giant Mountains. We walk through the garden in the Baroque landscape near Jičín. Šejn perceives the landscape as a primary reality, source, root or basis of creation. One of his major exhibitions was called Being a Landscape. Nature, an uncreated world, is not just a part, it is the source of our culture and our humanity.
Miloš Šejn was born in Jablonec nad Nisou (1947), graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, and lives in Jičín. He led the studio of intermedia creation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and currently teaches at the Art Design Institute in Prague. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as an art historian at the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové. His free work touches on land art and conceptual art. He works with the obtained samples of pigments, plants and minerals as with the archive. At the same time, it is based on performance and understands the world and events in it as a process. He uses drawing, painting and new media in an experimental way. Among other things, Miloš Šejn is the founder of the international association Bohemiae Rosa, which researches the relationship between the human body and the historical landscape. His friendly collaboration with geologist Václav Cílek is significant. The exhibition is a parallel, an ongoing variation of the N M H T Í cycle, exhibited in the Artikle Gallery in Brno.
Miloš Šejn is not unknown in Pardubice, he has participated in a number of exhibitions in the East Bohemian Gallery, including The Kuňka Phenomenon. He performed several times at Art Space NOV with his students David Helán and Ján Valík. Surprisingly, he presents himself here for the first time.
Martina Vítková
Miloš Šejn: Blackbird and Iris, 2020
Miloš Šejn: Blackbird and Iris, 2020
Miloš Šejn:Garden, 2020, acrylic on canvas, pasta, 150 x 150 cm, detail
art space NOV
Art Space NOV / Pardubice
29.09.2020 - 31.01.2021
The landscape record became a kind of map of my relationship to the place. Miloš Šejn
If images are maps, they are created not only by observation, but also by touching and experiencing. Touch is tactile communication, we also use the word metaphorically, we touch things, objects, people, problems, questions, answers. In the exhibition, named somewhat mysteriously, we realize that art also functions as a new possibility for the spiritual contact of man with man, the creator with the viewer, for example through the landscape. In his work and in his life, Miloš Šejn is connected with the landscape, with experimental surveys and with the ancient mythical form of the country, which he passes through, searches, touches and experiences first-hand. Šejn is as much a painter as a performer with experience on the edge of body-art, body art tapping limits, body boundaries. The process of knowing nature takes place not only through the distant senses: sight and hearing, which we can use at a distance, but also through touch and walking. In this kind of knowledge of the natural world, we literally carry our skin to the market. We have to get in very close contact with what we want to know. We do not look through the glass of a microscope or binoculars, we use the surface of our body, fingers, palms, hands, cheeks, feet, real physicality. In this empiricism, art obviously goes much further than science, although the two paths are different ways and tools of human knowledge…
Miloš Šejn: Gardening, 2020The artist comes into direct contact with the natural order, with streams, hills, stones, water, light, clay, swamp, shrubs, plants, leaves, trees. Perceptions and experiences can be recorded through painting, sound recording, photography, video or language. It is written about Miloš Šejn that he canceled the easel for the painting, the canvas lost its frame, he works on the ground. More than brushes, he uses prints of wood, stems, fingers, the whole body, sprinkling and dripping, rubbing materials against each other… He also eliminated the difference between a record and a poem. Texts created during the creative process are both.
The universe Í T H M N includes acoustics, captured sound and emitted sound. Part of the creative action is the flow of speech coming naturally, irrationally, the author records and rewrites it. It records the process of creation of a work, usually identical to the process of recognizing a specific place. Rediscovering speech to reconcile with what we see and what we can touch. The point is to get to the stage where the language becomes understandable again. Where does self-talk come from? In the mouth, in the brain, in touch? Or perhaps in the space between nature and man? With the camera on his forehead, the author intervenes with shadows, the camera on a tripod captures sounds, wind, jackdaws, water flow, noise, his own words. Letter soup and watering cans contrast with artificial audio and video recordings. As if we were to disassemble the watering cans and disperse to irrigate the land we can cover.
An image is a record of an event, a map, a structure. The performative origin is revealed by GPS coordinates specifying the area where the image was created. The mysterious word Agara, the Celtic name of the river Ohře, is often repeated in the names of the canvases. For the Hallstatt and La Tène culture, it was a lunar river, agile and clear water full of salmon. Javorí potok can be located in the Giant Mountains. We walk through the garden in the Baroque landscape near Jičín. Šejn perceives the landscape as a primary reality, source, root or basis of creation. One of his major exhibitions was called Being a Landscape. Nature, an uncreated world, is not just a part, it is the source of our culture and our humanity.
Miloš Šejn was born in Jablonec nad Nisou (1947), graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, and lives in Jičín. He led the studio of intermedia creation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and currently teaches at the Art Design Institute in Prague. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as an art historian at the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové. His free work touches on land art and conceptual art. He works with the obtained samples of pigments, plants and minerals as with the archive. At the same time, it is based on performance and understands the world and events in it as a process. He uses drawing, painting and new media in an experimental way. Among other things, Miloš Šejn is the founder of the international association Bohemiae Rosa, which researches the relationship between the human body and the historical landscape. His friendly collaboration with geologist Václav Cílek is significant. The exhibition is a parallel, an ongoing variation of the N M H T Í cycle, exhibited in the Artikle Gallery in Brno.
Miloš Šejn is not unknown in Pardubice, he has participated in a number of exhibitions in the East Bohemian Gallery, including The Kuňka Phenomenon. He performed several times at Art Space NOV with his students David Helán and Ján Valík. Surprisingly, he presents himself here for the first time.
Martina Vítková
Miloš Šejn: Blackbird and Iris, 2020
Miloš Šejn: Blackbird and Iris, 2020 
Miloš Šejn:Garden, 2020, acrylic on canvas, pasta, 150 x 150 cm, detailart space NOV