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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
Pilgrims, Refugees, Hermits
Regional Museum Kolín
An … extensive set of realizations in landscape is represented by various types of actions, characterized by a distinctive mutability over the course of time. These activities and happenings react in some way upon the environment, either with the help of other materials, or merely by the physical presence of the actor. A substantial group of these works deal with the themes of travelling and eventually, wandering. Both of these themes were already being explored and documented by Miloš Šejn in the second half of the 60's, in his early works… Walking, with its motor characteristics, is the most elementary activity of a body possible in nature – it can be organized "from somewhere to somewhere", and we can understand this demarcation as a spatial sculpture sui generis. Wandering carries other meanings, mainly the aspect of its unintentional ness, but also the quality of the actor’s existential jeopardy, which is to say the solitary actor. That can be encompassed in a walk under extreme conditions and through difficult terrain…
Extract from text Land Art and Conceptual Art by Jiří Valoch, LANDSCAPE in Contemporary Art, The catalogue was published on the occasion of the 1st exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Prague, 1993
Milos Sejn: Three days of wandering through the swamps of the Dyje River, 1969
Milos Sejn: Wandering through reeds, 1958
PILGRIMS
Project pilgrims, refugees, hermits with the participation of nearly forty artists, loosely based on a cycle of three group exhibitions (Scripture in the visual arts, music in the visual arts and the Path of Light - myths, philosophy and spirituality in the visual arts), taking place in Cologne from 1995 to 2012 and shows that many artists are returning to the phenomenon of pilgrimage, often associated with an unprecedented perception of the beauty of the landscape and its sanctity and reflected in particular by various streams of philosophy, literature and the art of European Romanticism. Their relationship to the road, to the landscape, but also to the issues of social exclusion and loneliness, which often accompanies man on his journey, whether voluntary or forced, is very individual. The exhibition thus maps a heterogeneous range of artistic approaches and suggests that many of the exhibitors not only accepted the trends emerging from the second half of the 20th century within the European artistic context, but also created under the influence of their own experiences and practices.
While some forms of action and conceptual art approach the landscape as a place suitable for experimentation and realisation of ephemeral events, often used for ecological and social criticism, the personal diaries of some authors usually reflect deep inner experiences and harmony with nature. In addition to realistic recordings of specific events, historical or fictional characters, many artists work with abstracted abbreviations or symbols, objects and classical paintings, or photographs or manipulated images. Nature of some works to a certain extent determines also the authors own experience with emigration, or the inability to freely form their decision to leave and work in solitary seclusion outside the main artistic movements.
The exhibition is a story about journeys in literal and devolved meaning, but also to a certain extent also comments on the consequences of the problems currently facing global mobility and consumerism, which in 1861 were captured by an American poet, philosopher, hermit and Pilgrim David Thoreau in his book Walking, expressing the view that people are moving away from nature and prefer comfort at all costs.
Regional Museum Kolín
11.09.2019 - 28.10.2019
An … extensive set of realizations in landscape is represented by various types of actions, characterized by a distinctive mutability over the course of time. These activities and happenings react in some way upon the environment, either with the help of other materials, or merely by the physical presence of the actor. A substantial group of these works deal with the themes of travelling and eventually, wandering. Both of these themes were already being explored and documented by Miloš Šejn in the second half of the 60's, in his early works… Walking, with its motor characteristics, is the most elementary activity of a body possible in nature – it can be organized "from somewhere to somewhere", and we can understand this demarcation as a spatial sculpture sui generis. Wandering carries other meanings, mainly the aspect of its unintentional ness, but also the quality of the actor’s existential jeopardy, which is to say the solitary actor. That can be encompassed in a walk under extreme conditions and through difficult terrain…
Extract from text Land Art and Conceptual Art by Jiří Valoch, LANDSCAPE in Contemporary Art, The catalogue was published on the occasion of the 1st exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Prague, 1993
Milos Sejn: Three days of wandering through the swamps of the Dyje River, 1969
Milos Sejn: Wandering through reeds, 1958PILGRIMS
Project pilgrims, refugees, hermits with the participation of nearly forty artists, loosely based on a cycle of three group exhibitions (Scripture in the visual arts, music in the visual arts and the Path of Light - myths, philosophy and spirituality in the visual arts), taking place in Cologne from 1995 to 2012 and shows that many artists are returning to the phenomenon of pilgrimage, often associated with an unprecedented perception of the beauty of the landscape and its sanctity and reflected in particular by various streams of philosophy, literature and the art of European Romanticism. Their relationship to the road, to the landscape, but also to the issues of social exclusion and loneliness, which often accompanies man on his journey, whether voluntary or forced, is very individual. The exhibition thus maps a heterogeneous range of artistic approaches and suggests that many of the exhibitors not only accepted the trends emerging from the second half of the 20th century within the European artistic context, but also created under the influence of their own experiences and practices.
While some forms of action and conceptual art approach the landscape as a place suitable for experimentation and realisation of ephemeral events, often used for ecological and social criticism, the personal diaries of some authors usually reflect deep inner experiences and harmony with nature. In addition to realistic recordings of specific events, historical or fictional characters, many artists work with abstracted abbreviations or symbols, objects and classical paintings, or photographs or manipulated images. Nature of some works to a certain extent determines also the authors own experience with emigration, or the inability to freely form their decision to leave and work in solitary seclusion outside the main artistic movements.
The exhibition is a story about journeys in literal and devolved meaning, but also to a certain extent also comments on the consequences of the problems currently facing global mobility and consumerism, which in 1861 were captured by an American poet, philosopher, hermit and Pilgrim David Thoreau in his book Walking, expressing the view that people are moving away from nature and prefer comfort at all costs.