We are honored and pleased to invite you to the lecture of the renowned Slovenian artist Marko Pogačnik, on December 2, 2025 (Tuesday), starting at 6:30 PM at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. His lecture is part of the international group exhibition “The East Remains Possible” in collaboration with Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana.
Marko Pogačnik’s Lecture Marathon
The lecture marathon consists of 3 lectures of 45 minutes each and a 15-minute break between them. The lecture topics are:
1. Transformations of the Slovenian OHO movement 1963-1970 and its significance for the contemporary era.
2. The Šempas commune 1970-79 in the sign of connecting art and agriculture and the concept of the “third art”
3. What is happening to the Earth in the time of climate change, the quantum leap of terrestrial space and the role of natural intelligence in this process.
During the break, you can join or leave the marathon.
Marko Pogačnik, born in 1944 in Kranj, Slovenia, is a co-creator of the OHO movement and group and the Šempas Family commune. In the mid-1980s, he developed a model of healing natural and urban spaces based on lithopuncture by placing stone pillars with carved cosmograms like acupuncture needles at certain points in the vital-energy system of space. In 2016, UNESCO awarded him the title of Artist for Peace. He designed the national coat of arms of the Republic of Slovenia. Marko Pogačnik is one of the artists in the international collection of works by donating a series of drawings by the Shempas Company and the site-specific installation Monument to the Nature in the park of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje.
Title photo:
Marko Pogačnik in conversation with museum curators Nevena Lazeska and Ljubica Damjanovska during the installation of his site’specific Monument to the Nature in the park of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje in 1982.
