Miloš Šejn

Miloš Šejn (August 10, 1947, Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czech multimedia artist and teacher, whose works are represented in many important collections of modern Czech and world fine art. He belongs to the pioneers of European multimedia and performative creation.

Curriculum vitae

Born 1947 in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (Charles University) in Prague in 1975 (art history and aesthetics - prof. Petr Wittlich, Doc. Milos Juzl, visual art - Doc. Zdenek Sykora). In the years 1975–1989, he worked as a curator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové. In 1976 Doctor of Philosophy, 1991 appointed professor of painting. In the years 1990-2011 he directed the Department of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, a visiting professor at the Academies in Aix-en-Provence, Carrara, Ljubljana, Naples, Stuttgart, The Hague and Vienna.

Art

Milos Sejn works in the fields of visual art, performance and study of visual perception, and conducts workshops, such as Bohemiae Rosa. His artistic concept was formed in his youth when he undertook many trips into the wilderness as a reflection of an inner need to get closer to the secret of nature and observe the miracles that happen in it. From the beginning of the 1960s he took pictures, drew, collected and described his observations of nature during these wanderings. Currently he interested in the relationship of nature and art as intrinsic needs of the mind, and focuses on immediate creative possibilities, based upon relations between historical humanised landscapes and intact nature. He consciously is working in the areas of expressive language among text, visual stroke, body movement, voice, and expansion into space. As a result, there are photographic series, experimental film, drawings, paintings, objects, graphics, author's books, scenography, texts, videos, multimedia and sound compositions, installations / architecture and complex bodily or synergistic interventions with the world in their myriad forms. He performs in the form of personal rituals, site-specific projects, theater events, collective realizations and festivals here and abroad (D, F, FIN, I, IRL, IS, N, NL, PL, SK, SWE…). His works have been presented since 1970 in a number of galleries in Europe and overseas, eg: National Gallery in Prague, The Moravian Gallery in Brno, ifa Galerie in Berlin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Ludvig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, MAC Musées d’Art Contemporain Marseille, Mücsarnok Budapest, Manggha Museum in Krakow, Uppsala Art Museum, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston, IMA Indianopolis Museum of Art, MoMA PS1 New York… In addition to the Czech Republic, he has permanent or process landscape realisation in France and Germany as well. He also worked with the landscape in Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Ireland, Iceland…

External links

John K. Grande: Art, Space, Ecology, Black Rose Books / U. of Chicago, 2018 John K. Grande, Edward Lucie–Smith: KUNST RAUM NATUR / Zwei Sichtweisen – Zwanzig Gespräche, J. S. Klotz Verlagshaus 2022 Lara Mallien: Im Moment des Nicht-Sterbens weiß ich, dass ich ein Mensch bleibe. (In the moment of not-dying I know that I will stay a human being.) German-language biographical essay on Miloš Šejn. In: Oya magazine 53/2019. Václav Cílek (ed.), Bohuslav Brosa, Jan K. Čeliš, Věra Jirousová, Ladislav Kesner, Milan Knížák, Stanislav Komárek, Simona Mehnert, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Radoslava Schmelzová, Jiří Valoch, Tomáš Vlček, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Jiří Zemánek: ŠEIN, eBook, BohemiaeRosa Publishers, 2003 Ladislav Kesner: Being Landscape / Býti Krajinou, Arbor vitae, 2010 Ladislav Kesner: Faces / Tváře, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha 2012 Ladislav Kesner: Archives of perception: The landscape in the processual scrolls of Miloš Šejn, Art 1/2005 - Journal of the Institute for Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Václav Cílek, Jan K. Čeliš (eds.): Archives & Cabinets / Archivy & Kabinety, Muzeum evropského umění, Liberec, 2012 Simona Mehnert (ed.): Milos Sejn, ifa / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlín, 1995 Milos Šejn (ed.): COLORVM NATVRAE VARITAS, CD ROM, c3 Budapest, 1999 Ladislav Kesner: David Michalek – Slow Dancing & Figure Studies / Milos Šein – Vznášení a padání, TROJHALÍ KAROLINA, Ostrava, 2013