dan perjovschi

The lobby piece, 2005
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Dan Perjovschi produces daily drawings, charged with a sometimes black humour and quite reminiscent of press cartoons. His sketches are like immediate comments upon ongoing history, be it personal, regional or international. He draws directly on the walls, using different types of pencils and felt-tip pens. Thus, the walls become the hosts of temporary and fragmentary frescos", often extended through other, less visible interventions in various corners of the exhibition space. In addition to his exhibitions, he also develops his political and social commitment in the cultural and political magazine 22 in Bucarest.

solo shows (selection)
2005 Naked Drawings, Ludwig Museum, Köln / Locus, Athens / Toutes Directions, Le Quartier, Quimper (avec Nahum Tevet)/ 2004 Drawing-Drawing, Gregor Podnar Galerie, Ljubdljana (avec Goran Petarcol) / Attila, Protokoll Studio, Cluj / No Idea, Schnittraum, Köln / 2003 Ich habe keinen Zeitraum, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu / Endless Collection, Kunsthalle Göppingen (avec Lia Perjovschi) / Kunsthalle, Arnsberg (avec Ricarda Roggan) / 2002 3(6), Ibid. Projects, London (avec Nathaniel Mellors) / Working Title, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Wien (avec Lia Perjovschi) / 1999 rEST, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Pavillon Roumain, Venezia (avec subReal)

group shows (selection)
2005 Buenos días Santiago - una exposición como expedición (curateur attitudes), Museo de arte contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile / New Europe. Culture of Mixing and Politics of Representation, Generali Foundation, Wien / 9e Biennale d'Istanbul / I still Believe in Miracles, ARC Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris / Just do it, Lentos Museum, Linz / Leaps of Faith, Nicosia / Paradoxes : The Embodied City, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa / On Difference 1, Local context-Hybrid Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart / Project Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln / 2004 Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne / Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne / Collective Gallery, Edinburgh / Cetinje Biennale, Dubrovnik / Johann Köning Galerie, Berlin / Artist Space, New York / New Gallery, Zagreb / 2003 Kokerei Zollverein, Zeitgenossische Kunst und Kritik, Essen / Museum Fridericianum, Kassel / Apex, New York / 2001 hARTware projekte, Dortmund / First Göteborg International Biennial, Kunsthalle Göteborg / Belgrade Museum of Contemporary art, Belgrade / Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Orangerie Innsbruck and ZKM Karlsruhe / 2000 Kunstraum Munchen / Voilà! Le monde dans la tête, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / PICAF, Pusan / 1999-2001 After the Wall, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum, Budapest / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin / 1999 Casino Luxembourg / Ludwig Museum, Budapest / 1998 Manifesta 2, Luxembourg / Shedhalle, Zürich

publications (selection)
2005 Naked drawings, Museum Ludwig / I draw I happy, Schnittraum Köln / 2003 Walls, Floors, Museums and mines 1995 - 2003, éd. Liviana Dan, Timotei Nadasan, Cluj