Marko Pogačnik

Marko Pogačnik was born 1944 in Kranj and lives nowadays in Slovenia. During the years 1965-71 he worked in Conceptual Art and Land Art as member of OHO group. He did many exhibitions all over the world including ones in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at Venice Biennale etc. After 1971 he started working in the field of art combined with integral ecology (geoculture). He has developed a method of Earth healing called “lithopuncture” with stones standing on specific points and complemented with carved cosmograms. His lithopuncture works can be seen in several countries of Europe, also in South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and the USA. After 1998 he developed the “Gaia Touch” body exercises to tune to the essence of the Earth. His books include: Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings, Touching the Breath of Gaia, Turned Upside Down, Gaia’s Quantum Leap, Sacred Geography and Universe of the Human Body. In 2016 he was appointed by UNESCO Secretary General as Artist for Peace and UNO Goodwill Ambassador.