Marko Pogačnik was born in 1944 in Kranj, Slovenia, graduated as sculptor on the Academy of fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1967. He is living with his wife Marika in Šempas, Slovenia. They have three daughters and five grand children.

From 1965 till 1971 he worked as a member of an international art group called OHO, 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
The rather complete collection of OHO works is housed by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

In 1971, together with his family and friends, he has founded a rural - artistic community and spiritual centre called the "Šempas Family" at Šempas, Slovenia. It existed up to 1979. Exhibitions by the Šempas Family include Trigon 1977 in Graz and the Venice Biennale of 1978.

Since 1979 he has been 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 and positioning them on acupuncture points of the landscape. He calls it "lithopuncture". (See the list of lithopuncture projects in the chapter on Earth healing and Art work).

His books in English:
Ley-Lines and Ecology (Together with William Bloom, 1983), A Hidden Pathway through Venice (1986), 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), So Wide the Heart (together with Ana Pogačnik, 2006), Touching the Breath of Gaia (2007), Sacred Geography (2007)

He teaches geomancy in different countries in Europe and USA, runs courses on holistic ecology, geomancy and personal development in many countries world-wide. His main themes are: multidimensionality of landscape and of urban environment, communication with different facets of nature, the rediscovery of the feminine principle, the present Earth changes and human transformation.

In 1991 Marko Pogačnik has designed the official coat of arms and the flag of the newly constituted Republics of Slovenia.

Address: Marko Pogačnik, Šempas 160, Si-5261 Šempas, Slovenia

E-mail: pogacnik@mail.ljudmila.org (Please use it only if the benefit of life on Earth is concerned. I have no secretary to handle the post.)

It is a great pleasure for me to work within a family team. My wife Marika Pogačnik is an artist working in wood carving. She is helping me with carving cosmogrammes for our lithopuncture projects. Our oldest daughter Ajra Pogačnik is working as spiritual healer and book author. She collaborates with me in teaching geomancy and personal development in different countries. Our youngest daughter Ana Pogačnik has created a school for personal development and geomancy in Munich, Germany called “Wieder sehen”. She is also a book author. We collaborate in the field of teaching and have published a book together (So Wide the Heart, Lindisfarne 2006)
See: www.ana-pogacnik.com
Our third daughter, Nike Kranjc is a scientist working in the field of forestry and renewable bio-energy.