Miloš Šejn

Miloš Šejn (born 10 August 1947 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czech visual artist, performer, and educator. His work explores the relationship between the human body and landscape and is considered a significant contribution to Czech intermedia art and performance art. He works across a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, performance, experimental film, video, installation, text, and artists' books.

Biography

Šejn was born in Jablonec nad Nisou and has lived in Jičín since childhood. His early interest in natural science, including collecting minerals and observing plants and animals, became a formative influence on his artistic practice.

Drawing plays a central role in his work as a tool for perception and recording, often combined with text, collected materials, photography, film, and bodily action. These elements form complex structures linking place, time, and embodied experience.

In 1991 he presented work at the Milano Poesia festival. In the 1990s he created projects combining image, body, sound, and space, including work at the Plasy Monastery in 1994.

Between 2008 and 2014 he realized Solar Mountain, a large-scale land art project integrating landscape intervention, architecture, water, light, and sound.

Kesner also highlights the processual nature of his work, particularly in relation to drawing and temporality.

Jiří Valoch points to the interconnection of photography, drawing, and artists' books as central media in his work.

Selected works

Awake Dreaming (1967–1969) Ravine (1978–1981) Demarcation of Space by Fire (1982) Falling Sun (1983) Processual pigment works and installations (from the mid-1980s) Colorum Naturae Varietas (1999) St. Anne I–II (2000–2003) Green Man (2003–2004) Solar Mountain (2008–2014)