Performer, action artist, poet and pedagogue Milan Kohout was exiled from Czechoslovakia in 1986, for his political and cultural activities, along with a group of fellow signatories of Charter 77.
Kohout's primary field of work is that of action art, his performances taking place in public space as well as at institutions such as galleries or theaters. Among his most renowned interventions into public space was a protest performance which took place at the infamous wall in Matiční street in Ustí nad Labem, where as a protest against the segregation of the Roma and Czech inhabitants he cut a Czech flag in half, only to be ensuingly accused of deformation of a state symbol. In 2007 he was arrested and taken to court over his project Nooses for Sale, in which he criticized the behavior of American banks. He was finally acquitted of the charges after a four month long court proceeding. His event for Peking in 2009 was also an impressive undertaking. In this case he "cleansed" Tien-an-men Square of the blood that had been spilt in 1989. The exhibition for Brno presents a retrospective of his most significant projects.