MARKO POGAČNIK
born 1944 in Kranj, Slovenia, graduated as sculptor on the Academy od Fine Arts in Ljubljana 1967. With his family he lives in Šempas, Slovenia.
He is developing art active in the fields of ecology. geomancy, social movements and individual spiritual development.

From 1965 to 1971 he worked as a member of OHO group in the fields of conceptual art and land-art. Exhibitions include Information Show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1970, Aktionsraum, Munich, 1970, and Global Conceptualism Show 1950-80, Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999
In 1971 he founded together with his family and friends, a rural and artistic community, the "Šempas Family" at Šempas, Slovenia. This existed up to 1979. Exhibitions by the Family include Trigon 1977 in Graz and the Venice Biennalle of 1978.
Since 1979 he is engaged in geomantic and Earth healing work. In the mid 80-s he has developed a method of Earth healing similar to acupuncture, by using stone pillars with carved cosmograms, positioned on acupuncture points of the given landscape. He calles it "lithopuncture".
Lithopuncture works include: Lithopuncture of two castle parks in Germany, Türnich (1986-89) and Cappenberg (1988-92),
Lithopuncture of the territory on both sides of the border between North Ireland and Republics of Ireland, Orchard Gallery, Derry (1991-92)
Lithopuncture of the urban ambiences of Villach (1995), Klagenfurt, (1998), Bad Radkersburg (2001) and Nova Gorica (2001-02), St,Veit a.d.Glann (2004)
"Alpenstern", a crossalpic lithopuncture project with lithopuncture stones in Italy (Merano), Austria (Villach), Slovenia (Maribor) and Germany (Chiemsee) (1997).
Lithopuncture of Circuito das Aguas, Minas Gerais, Brasil (1998)
Seeland lithopuncture network, Switzerland (1998-2002)
Aachen lithopuncture network, Ludwig Forum Aachen, (1999)

Lithopuncture project on both sides of the border between Austria and Slovenia in Carinthia, (1999-2002), etc.
Lithopuncture of the urban environment of Quito, Ecuador (2003)
Lithopuncture Prague (2005-2006), Lithopuncture Bad Pyrmont, Germany (2006)
Litopuncture od the Regional hospilal’s territory in Klagenfurt, Austria (2005-2006)
Lithopuncture Hawkwood College, Stroud, Great Britain (2008)
Lithopuncture of Norton Commons, Louiseville, Kentucky, USA, 2010

After 2005 he dedicates much of his work to creating Geopuncture Circles, a world wide project to enhance communication with the Earth consciousness that he crates together with his collaborators from given countries. Geopuncture Circles stand already in Portugal, Croatia, in Czech Republics, on Canarian Islands, in Austria, Slovenia and USA.

His books in English: Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings (1996) Healing the Heart of the Earth (1998) Christ Power and the Earth Goddess (1999) Earth Changes, Human Destiny (2000) The Daughter of Gaia (2001), Turned Upside Down (2004), Touching the Breath of Gaia (2005), Sacred Geography (2007), Gaia’s Quantum Leap (2011)

He teaches geomancy on the School for Geomancy "Hagia Chora", Germany, runs courses on wholistic ecology, geomancy and personal development in many countries worldwide, and provides counseling on the issues of urban development and landscape design.
He is president of the VITAAA Association for the Coexistence of Human beings, Nature and Space.

His main themes are: multidimensionality of the landscape and urban ambience, communication with different facets of nature, the rediscovery of the feminine principle, the present Earth changes and human transformation.
In 1991 he created the coat of arms of the newly constitutded Republics of Slovenia.
He received the Prešeren Fund Award and the Bevk Award (both in 1991) for his work, as well as the Jakopič Award (2008).
In 1991 Marko Pogačnik has designed the official coat of arms and the flag of the newly constituted Republics of Slovenia.

Adress: Marko Pogačnik, Šempas 160, Si-5261 Šempas, Slovenia
Email: marko.pogacnik1@siol.net
Home page: www.markopogacnik.com