AKTUALITY

STROKING BODIES - AN ANATOMY OF TRACES

A workshop for dancers and artists exploring the relation between body and art by Milos Sejn and Frank van de Ven 
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Frozen Moments / Fluid Time

Time, ever-present yet elusive, is a constant in our lives. It shapes our experiences, memories, and perceptions of the world. 
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LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 2024

The basic idea and goal of the project is to indicate a green line, which with the revitalization of the brownfield of the Žižkov Freight Railway Station will become a path connecting the area of Krenovka (Florenc), the Hill of Holy Cross and a series of non-urbanized wooded areas around the Malešice Forest...
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ANIMA MUNDI | VISIONS – ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR | VENICE 2024

Thanks to the hidden connections of ANIMA MUNDI, all the ecosystems of the Earth, before and after the appearance of mankind, found their equilibrium, their ways to live and to develop themselves, to transform and to evolve. 
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Deposit of Memory: Video Works by Miloš Šejn from 1988-2022

Performances in which the face, unarticulated 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. 
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MEMORY DEPOSIT

The MEMORY DEPOSIT exhibition is conceptually designed as an intuitive authorial mini-retrospective. It mixes references to civilization (antiquity) and persona! memory (references to the artist's mother and father).
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KOR . KON . TOI . 0 0 1 – Miloš Šejn / Adriena Šimotová

In the 2nd cent. the name Korkontoi was used by the Greek geographer Klaudios Ptolemaios in the geographical work Europae tabula quarta. He describes the landscapes and the population beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, as described to him by the people who penetrated the barbarian regions... 
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BECOMING GARDEN…

The world gives us little anymore, it often seems to exist only from noise and fear, but the grass and trees still grow. (H. Hesse)

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Heraclitus principle / One hundred years of coal in Czech art

Few raw materials occupy such a prominent position in art as coal. As a material, it has been a basic artistic tool since prehistoric times, and is currently a socially controversial topic. 
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SYMBIOSIS

Coexistence of species in the plant and animal kingdom, interdisciplinary cooperation between humans and non-humans, relationships and contexts in the landscape. 
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1 : 1 : 1

Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on the Isle of Oír Arran. Drawing traces of vision, voice, germs of speech.  All this transferred to a system of 6 cubes of the White Cube type at the bottom of the valley below the Ještěd mountain.
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Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck II

Expressionist, cubist and constructivist variants of abstract art have been a national phenomenon for more than 100 years. The border triangle between the art centers of Prague, Dresden and Breslau was also affected.  
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BIRTHDAY

The invited artists appear at the exhibition together with the works of the Valovky sisters, not for the sake of confrontation, but for the reason of a close encounter and understanding. 
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MY WIFE/S SOUL

So close and yet she is far from all shades of words. Baby in arms. It is a landscape of traces that disappears into the distance only to wander back into our collective minds.
 
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Face for SU–EN

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. 
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RAVINES AND GARDENS

How to build a picture. I stand, the world is around. Touches of color drink up the space and in the boulders, step by step, the vision is piled up to the moment just before the moment when flowering ends.
 
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Valoch & Valoch / Archeology And Conceptual Art

The exhibition on the story of Father Karel Valoch and his son Jiří Valoch examines the relationship between archeology and conceptual art.


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Wege in die Abstraktion im Dreiländereck

Expressionist, cubist and constructivist variants of abstract art have been a national phenomenon for more than 100 years. The border triangle between the art centers of Prague, Dresden and Breslau was also affected. 
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AQVA

The author oscillates here between a rational, distant approach and its complementary opposite, grasping reality without distance - in a bodily, performative, non-separating way.
 
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KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art

Electricity and the various technologies based on it have been transforming artistic practice for more than a hundred years now. The former function of Kunsthalle Praha's building, Zenger Electrical Substation, inspired the theme of our inaugural exhibition.
 
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EMERGENCY EXIT

The Emergency Exit exhibition revolves around the burning environmental issues of our time, looking for answers in postwar neo-avant-garde artistic practices and current ecological initiatives. 
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MAN IN THE CAVE

Rocks, gutters, caves, abysses, sinkholes, ditches - these geological formations have long fascinated us, aroused amazement and fear. We admire the immense power with which nature shapes the landscape. 
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ÍHMNÍ

The fundamental presentation of ÍHMNÍ in the newly established SMETANAQ Gallery in Prague is approaching.

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SEMI-OPEN

The author will be true to his previous artistic direction and will work consistently with both the given spaces and the position of himself, as a living being in the midst of beings other than only human society, but also a living verity within the organism of the site...

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Prague Biennale 2021 / Re-connect Art

The fourth edition of the festival, subtitled Re-connect Art, will offer reflections on current topics including depersonalised communication, isolation, media ecology, and the relationship between humans and technology. 
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Zdzisław Jurkiewicz. Occurrences

The exhibition additionally juxtaposes this contemplative aspect of Jurkiewicz’s practice with selected works by artists such as Les Levine, Dóra Maurer, Robert Morris, Philippe Van Snick, Miloš Šejn or Margita Titlova-Ylovsky, which were also created on the basis of careful observation of everyday life. 
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Art Safari 36: TOGETHER

Art Safari 36 will be designed on the principle of artistic cooperation as well as activating visitors to participate artistically and experience the event. 
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ART, MELANCHOLY AND LAUGH FACES IN THE FACE OF ABSURDITY

The exhibition ART, MELANCHOLY AND LAUGH FACES IN THE FACE OF ABSURDITY presents works which, in response to the crisis of modern times, sought and discovered new possibilities of fine art. The exhibition includes selected artifacts by important authors born in the years 1939 - 1953. 
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KRAJINA + / LANDSCAPE +

The exhibition LANDSCAPE + will cross the borders of the gallery and reach the Bohemian Central Mountains with accompanying programs. 
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WATER

Water, as a liquid, variable, inflammatory and resurfacing element, convenes with the deep-unconscious components of the psyche. 
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ATLAS NEW CONSTELLATIONS

The exhibition presents various approaches to the format of the artist's book, ie a publication created as a collective work of art, mostly by one author or author group. 
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FOR THE LAST FIFTY YEARS

Contemporary art does not yet have a history. It makes no sense, therefore, to tell his story chronologically, but rather thematically, with an emphasis on the diversity of approaches of individual artists and artists to visual creation. 
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PILGRIMAGE TO THE MOUNTAINS

We already know that there is nothing to be afraid of: the path will set us straight and guide us, connect us with the landscape, with the clouds, with the starry nighttime sky. With ourselves. 
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Fotograph Festival #X UNEVEN GROUND

Against this background, the FF #10 strives to give space to works that facilitate encounters with the Other and to revive the function that in this sense can be attributed to the documentary media of photography and film.The ambivalence of these media, suggesting closeness while generating alienation, is probed as are its limitations. 
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Í T H M N

how to water the writing / loosen meanings / blossom by words and yield memory /⁣
⁣that's gardening of speech and language of understanding⁣
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Table and Territory / Table et Territoire

La Table et leTerritoire is a program that puts participatory and civic solutions based on culture into practice. 
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Looking Into The Window

What is happening behind the windows of our households? How we are in private, and how else are we outside of it? What has the recent period revealed about us and our ties with our loved ones? 
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A Pilgrim Who Returns


"Whether we observe God's or human nature and deeds as they are still seen in our progress, whether we observe God's predictions of the last state of the world before entering eternity, everything commands us to hope for greater and better things of the past.”
 Jan Amos Comenius, Via lucis, (1641-1642) 
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Gočár Phenomenon

Gočár Phenomenon / This year, the Autumn of Concretists is a tribute to the architect Josef Gocar, who gave Hradec Králové an unmistakable face. 
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ART SAFARI 35 – HYDRANT

Recently, artists, as sensors of events, have been helping to detect problem areas related to the climate crisis, alerting and alarming the public, but also resisting hysteria, feelings of helplessness and coping with the situation on a deeper level. 
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24h PERFORMANCE

24h Performance is a unique experimental performance form. It is a hybrid mix between group performance, real life in the city, exhibition, music production, demonstration, festival, survival experience, temporary autonomous zone, filming, climax and poetry. 
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Through the Landscape of K. H. Mácha

The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the 210th anniversary of the birth of Karel Hynek Mácha, will offer visitors different reflections of Máchas literary work, from Romanticism through Realism, Surrealism to the present. 
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NMHTÍ

THE MOVEMENT OF THE EYES AND THE HANDS ARE NOT WATCHING CONTOURS, BUT PENETRATION INTO THE WHOLENESS OF THE UNIVERSE.

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IDENTITY

THE MOVEMENT OF THE EYES AND THE HANDS ARE NOT WATCHING CONTOURS, BUT PENETRATION INTO THE WHOLENESS OF THE UNIVERSE.
 
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Homeplace & Kunka Phenomenon

Two interconnected exhibitions deal with the theme of Kuneticka Mountain, the dominant feature of the Pardubice Region, which has a typical shape and its specifics. 
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↗ ASCENT ↙ DESCENT / performance art event

Performance Crossings - international performance art festival organized by Cross Attic in coproduction with MALÁ INVENTuRA festival 2020 opens up cross][club to a vertical experience of performance art intervention into our reality. 
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Parallel cinema / Stream, Tree and Stone

Miloš Šejn's film work is one of the undiscovered chapters of the Czech film experiment. His artistic career is devoted primarily to the landscape and its experience using a wide range of media.  
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Ji.hlava

The synergy of complementary programmes gives rise to the festival as if it was a film of its own kind, providing a context to be browsed through by the visitors, who can edit their own films based on their perception thus ceasing to be mere visitors.

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TRA DUE MONDI

Body work with three locations in Naples, Herculaneum and Pompei was based on performative operations on the gateway between worlds. 
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Pilgrims, Refugees, Hermits

The Naked Forms Festival (FNAF)

The Naked Forms Festival (FNAF) is a monothematic and multi-genre festival exploring the work of nudity in contemporary live art. 
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Sounds / Codes / Images - Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts

The exhibition offers a historical overview of art that depicts sound as an abstract phenomenon, from the beginnings of abstraction to the present day.

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rivers, streams, puddles

Glass is a liquid that can be very similar to water. As cold as ice associates ponds, pools, hoarfrost and frost on windows or clouds floating in the sky. 
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IL SORRISO DEL LEONE / VENICE TELEPATHIC BODIES

Venice Telepathic Bodies / 177th days presentation of Milos ŠEIN in Venice as a Cloud, Water spray and Coldness 
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Performance Crossings 2019

Performance Crossings 2019 is an international festival focusing on performance art and related art forms which for the third year presents artists from all around the world and opens the dialogue between artists and audience, between thoughts and their articulation. 
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THEATRUM MUNDI III

“Theatrum Mundi” is a multimedia project that displays a model of the universe metaphorically as an endless circle of life where everyone is a co-creator and introduces art as a process that makes us what we are.
 
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Early Manifestations of Action Art in East Bohemia

I touched the grass and was everything, heard everything, saw everything and was felt by everething, 1967  
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AQVA MUO

Water is a significant phenomenon in Milos Šejn's work. Appears almost everywhere. Even the Sun Mountain was built above the stream flowing through it. 
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Yellow Rose Fragrance

“Master, we have followed your teaching for years. Can you tell us what the essence of it is?” Everyone waits for an answer. Buddha wordlessly picks a flower growing in front of him, lifts it to the sky and smiles…  
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WÄRMFLASCHE

Wärmflasche is a winter just-before-Christmas meeting of artists and audience members interested in performance art, sound art and installation art who wish not only to do/see art but also to spend time together. The event does not have any theme/topic and is very open for individual, experimental proposals. 
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ART SPACE ECOLOGY

In Art, Space, Ecology, internationally renowned curator and critic John K. Grande interviews twenty major contemporary artists whose works engage with the natural environment. 
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Architecture and Senses

What type of acoustic environment is beneficial or detrimental for people and other beings? Is there even such a thing as a natural, healthy acoustic environment which is fitting for humans, irrespective of other beings? 
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THEATRUM MUNDI II

“Theatrum Mundi” is a multimedia project that displays a model of the universe metaphorically as an endless circle of life where everyone is a co-creator and introduces art as a process that makes us what we are.
 
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OPERA CORCONTICA

I fell through the waterfall by flash and cut the surface with living flow line.
So Dipper, which appeared for a moment to the end of the walking through the Maple brook in the Giant mountains, told me. 
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PRAGUE WILDERNESS – LANDSCAPE FESTIVAL PRAGUE 2018

In the summer months, Prague will become a scene of the sixth annual international Landscape Festival, which focuses on urban public space and urbanized landscape in the Czech Republic. 
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Energy of the initial line – gesture, rhythm, movement in contemporary Czech art

The basic concept of the exhibition stems from free responses to and inspirations by East Asian calligraphy in contemporary Czech art. The physical and motion perception of energy encompassed in the expressive process of “calligraphy” work.
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IMAGE / BODY / SOUND

WELCOME TO THE UNDERGROUND / In all, the collection comprises an unusual, uncensored probe into the soul of the versatile artist, who in his work goes “beyond the limits”.
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EVERY WANDERING ENDS IN THE BEGINNING

Every wandering ends in the beginning
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(Post)Land Art and the Anthropocene

Troublemakers is ultimately a story of renegades and firebrands all willing to risk their future careers on radical change and experimentation-a marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today.
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CS CONCEPTUAL ART OF THE 70s

The exhibition focuses on monitoring trends that have been applied to the art of ideas, records, projects and events. It will present various forms of conceptual work with drawings and photographs as well as the status of the concept devoted to the relation of the script and the image, or it will also focus on futuristic, action and environmental projects. 
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SONIC SOLAR MOUNTAIN

Sonic performance by Günter Heinz & Milos Sejn & Frank van de Ven
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Bohemiae Rosa

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 / guest artist Günter Heinz 
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HOW TO EXPLAIN IMAGES TO AN INVISIBLE INTERSPACE

My event and pemanent intervention in the Viktor Fucek's exhibiton shoul be a very free paraphrase of Joseph Beuys cult action of 1965, this time defined by the title “How to explain images to an invisible interspace”.
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LAPSody 2017 – The Bubble

Our world bubbles, the earth is a bubble. Yet, there is the aesthetic and life-preserving potential of the bubble: it is an equally rich metaphor for isolation and ignorance as it is for nurturance, safety and protection, and even more so for perfection and effervescence. 
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ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH

The exhibition is focused on the concept of transformation, starting from the alchemical processes, that aim to purify the nature elements: earth, air, water and fire. The alchemists, recognised as the ancestors of modern chemists, worked to discover the way the world is made and to modify its structure.
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LIQUID ROOMS / THE LABYRINTH

LIQUID: 1. a state of matter with definite volume but no definite shape, composed of molecules which move freely among themselves but do not tend to separate like those of gases ...
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LANDSCAPE

The idea for the exhibition project “Landscape” arose more than a year ago on the basis of a more traditional conception of the topic, a phenomenon deeply rooted in art history. It begins from the assumption that each artist must grapple with landscape at certain moments in the creative process.
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The Landscape, Art and Photography | Contemporary Artworks in the Landscape

Usually we have go to the countryside if we want to see works based on the land art movement and environmental art for public spaces...
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Branches | Nature art – variations

To touch the earth is a small gesture, as deep in its resonance as it is universal and historically persistent. 
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AGARA / Hommage à la Peinture

Right from the water spring / The body of waters bites downwardly there / Where it roots in the deepest subsoil and turns its multiple eyes upward / Between grass and trees into the light / From where it was born...
 
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SPEECH MELODIES

The main idea is the connection of Janáček´s work with the world of visual art and the question of the possibility of mutual communication between music and picture, between the musical and plastic expression.
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SELÉNÉ / BECOMING A LUNAR FACE TELEPATHICALLY

In September 28 I am going to link my face with the face of the Moon telepathically. The intervention will be held 1 hour around the maximum of the Full Moon at 4:50 AM CEST (2:50 UT), ie 4:20 to 5:20 AM CEST (2:20 to 3:20 UT).
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FACIALITY

So, is your mother a landscape or a face? … (Godard.) All faces envelop an unknown, unexplored landscape; all landscapes are populated by a loved or dreamed-of face, develop a face to come or already past.   Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari / A Thousand Plateaus
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SOLAR MOUNTAIN

BECOMING GOLD RAINING, TRANSFIGURED INTO THE FIRE. OH SUN! THE STAR OF THE STARS! YOU ARE SINGING THROUGH US BY THE BELL.
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MICHALEK / ŠEIN

Starting from very different premises, the two artists jointly presented at the exhibition organized by the newly established Ostrava City Gallery – David Michalek and Miloš Šejn – both found new ways of capturing the dynamism and beauty of the human form in visually stunning images.
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IL SORRISO DEL LEONE

Venice Telepathic Bodies / 177th days presentation of Milos ŠEIN in Venice as a Cloud, Water spray and Coldness
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FACIALITY / Space of the Memory and an Immediate Space

So, is your mother a landscape or a face? … (Godard.) All faces envelop an unknown, unexplored landscape; all landscapes are populated by a loved or dreamed-of face, develop a face to come or already past.   Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari / A Thousand Plateaus
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Faces / Face as the phenomenon in videoart

Human face has traditionally been a major subject of visual arts, constituting a genre of portraiture and self-portraiture. The advent of moving image – first in film and later in videoart – opened new possibilities and dimensions of representation of human face.
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ARCHIVES & CABINETS

This exhibition is the most extensive probe into the work of Miloš Šejn just from the perspective of his personal archives and what might be called the cabinet or a personal museum.
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The Written Face for SU-EN

Milos Sejn's performance as a part of opening ceremony - VISCERAL SPACE
SU-EN Butoh Company 20-year anniversary party and opening of exhibition / Uppsala Art Museum
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Finally Together

Exhibition mapping the contemporary independent gallery scene in the Czech Republic.
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B/L – Dedicated to Carolus Linnaeus

Performance Installation
As a part, and a memory, of the international performance art festival FRICTION III, Miloš Šejn's installation remains as an exhibition at Uppsala Art Museum during the summer.
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BEING LANDSCAPE

The exhibition concentrates events and works in which the artist’s own body is used as the exclusive medium of expression and as a visual medium, and which can be preserved only in a video or audio form.
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Gardening

Multimedia Installation. Survey of a vast genealogic archive of artists, interpreted through the philosophical methodology of plants.
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Cartusiae Waldiczensis

Cartusiae Waldiczensis
Locked World / Story Of Monastery 1627 - 1782
Exhibition consist also studies of reconstuction of the monastery by Petr Uličný and Miloš Šejn
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LANDSCAPE UNDER TOTALITARIAN

Coal Mine Mayrau or Majrovka from 1874 is visited regularly since 2002 by artists, who try to be inspired here and they create their art works directly for this space.
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