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Milan Kohout was born on 1955 in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, is an A 20th-century male writer. Discover Milan Kohout's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Milan Kohout Height, Weight & Measurements
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Milan Kohout Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Milan Kohout worth at the age of 69 years old? Milan Kohout’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. He is from Czechoslovakia. We have estimated Milan Kohout's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Milan Kohout (born 1955) is a Czech–American performance artist, writer, and university lecturer.
He was a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights declaration against the communist government of Czechoslovakia.
Kohout studied electrical engineering at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Plzeň (now the University of West Bohemia).
He was active in the Czech underground, as part of a movement known as the Second Culture.
As a result of his political activities, he was forced to work in blue-collar occupations, such as several years working as a coal stoker at the Ethnographic Museum in Prague.
In 1986 he was exiled from Czechoslovakia by the secret police, and spent two years in the Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria.
Between 1992 and 2003 he worked as a camera operator, video technician, and producer for news and public affairs cable TV channel C-SPAN.
He was granted political asylum in the United States, and moved to Boston, gaining a diploma from Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1993.
He has taught performance art as political action at Tufts School and at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and video production at the New England Institute of Art.
During his years in Boston he created was engaged in experimental performance art, focused mainly on politics, human rights, and criticism of religious organizations and ideologies.
Since 1994 he has been a member of the Mobius art group.
He has participated in several international festivals and art programs (including festivals in China, Croatia, Poland, Taiwan, Cuba, Thailand, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and the United States).
He has also lectured at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen.
Kohout's art criticises the US economy, religion, the media, the politics of oil, racism and social prejudice.
His works include a performance art piece critical of the segregation wall in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, where in 1999, as a protest against the segregation of Czech Roma, he cut the flag of the Czech Republic in half, and was subsequently accused of defaming the state symbol.
In 2007 he was arrested in Boston after his performance "Nooses on Sale", which was critical of the conduct of US banks during the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
The performance involved Kohout selling nooses outside a branch of the Bank of America, and after the bank reported him to the police, he was prosecuted for peddling goods without a licence.
After a four-month trial he was found not guilty.
In 2011, he recorded a five-part autobiographical show for Czech Radio.
He also appeared in the documentary film Radical Jesters, about political performance artists in the United States.
File:Výstava Milana Kohouta v Domě umění v Brně s kameramanem.jpg |Milan Kohout exhibition at the House of Art in Brno 2011
File:Triptych Milana Kohouta v Doxu Praze.jpg |Milan Kohout "Triptych" in Prague Dox (http://www.dox.cz/en/), 2012
File:Výstava Milana Kohouta v Plzni 2013 I.jpg |Part of the exhibition of works by Milan Kohout in Pilsen 2013
File:Milan Kohout na svojí výstavě v Plzni 2013.jpg |Milan Kohout
File:Výstava Milana Kohouta v Plzni 2013 II.jpg |In Pilsen Art Gallery e Facta with visitors to the exhibition, August 2013
In 2015 he appeared on the Czech TV show You Have the Word, arguing in favour of the Czech Republic accepting large numbers of refugees.
Kohout described this as a political performance, but it sparked a negative reaction from the public and in the media.
In September 2016 Kohout announced his candidacy for the 2018 Czech presidential elections, though in the event he did not start campaigning and was not a candidate in the election.
