Born: 1961 Sibiu (RO)
Illustrator, 22 Magazine Bucharest
Contributing editor Idea-Art and Society Cluj
Living and working in Bucharest
Dan Perjovschi is represented by:
Lombard Freid Projects, New York
Helga de Alvear Gallery, Madrid
Gregor Podnar Gallery, Lublijana
Fellowships/Artist in Residence/Awards:
2006 Artist in residence in the frame of The Big Piece of Turf, Nurnberg
2004 George Maciunas Prize
2004 Artist to Artist, Visiting Arts & Henry Moore Foundation Grant Glasgow; Artist in residence Collective Gallery Edinburgh
2003 Artist in residence Kokerei Zollverein, Zeitgenossische Kunst und Kritik, Essen
Visiting Professor&Artist in residence Ecole Superieure de Beaux Arts Marseille
2002 Henkel CEE Prize for Contemporary Drawing, Wien
1999 “Gheorghe Ursu” Human Rights Foundation Award, Bucharest
1999 Artist in residence IASPIS Stockholm
1997 Visiting professor&Artist in residence, Duke University NC
1995 ArtsLink Fellowship New York, KulturKontakt Fellowship Wien
Artist in residence Franklin Furnace New York
1994 MidAmerica Art Alliance/USIA fellowship
1994 Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Floride, US
Personal Exhibitions:
2007
Project 85, MoMa New York
States of Mind, Nasher Museum, Duke University (with Lia Perjovschi)
Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
“Original”, Helga de Alvear Gallery Madrid
Resistenta culturala, Protokoll Studio Cluj
Solo, Passau Museum fur Moderne Kunst
2006
“First Class” Montcada Space, La Caixa Forum Barcelona
“From Now On”, Kunsthalle Budapest
”Do we have a title?” Attitudes, Geneva
Borremans, Bryce, Perjovschi-Drawings, Wurtenbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
"May First", Moderna Museet Stockholm
Dan Perjovschi, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven NL
"Not me but you, not now but later" Kunstraum Innsbruck A
"On the Other Hand" Portikus Frankfurt D
"Back to Back" Lombard Fried Projects New York (with Nedko Solakov)
"The Room Drawing", Tate Modern London UK
2005
"Naked Drawings“, Ludwig Museum Koln, D
Locus, Athens
I shoot myself in the foot, New Gallery Peja, Kosovo
“Toutes Directions“, Le Quartier, Quimper Bretagne, FR (with Nahum Tevet) Fr
2004
“Drawing-Drawing” Gregor Podnar Gallery Lublijana (with Goran Petarcol), SL
"Attila" Protokoll Studio Cluj, RO
“No idea” Schnittraum Koln, D
2003
“Ich habe keinnen zeitraum” Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu/ Hermannstadt, RO
“Endless Collection” Kunsthalle Goppingen (with Lia Perjovschi), D
Kunstverein Arnsberg (with Ricarda Roggan), D
“3 (6)”, Ibid. Projects, London (with Nathaniel Mellors), GB
“Working Title” Quartier 21, Museumsquartier Wien (with Lia Perjovschi), A
1999
“rEST”, 48th Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavillion (with SubReal), IT
1995
"Anthroprogramming" Franklin Furnace, New York , US
Group Exhibitions:
“Magelanic Cloud“, Space 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Footnotes on Amnesia, Geopolitics and …”, The second Moscow Biennial
“….” 52 Venice Biennial
“Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change”,the 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirate
“Madrid Abierto“, Art in Public Space Madrid
“This Place is My Place”, Hamburg Kunstverein
The Public Space, Bucharest
The Evil, Part 1, Gebr Lehman Gallery, Dresden
“Last News”, LAZNIA center fro Contemporary Art, Gdansk PL
“ Space Invaders”, Skuc Gallery Ljubljana
“Comix” Kunsthalle Bregen, Denmark
2006
“Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now” MOMA New York
“Unhomely”, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS), Seville, Spain
“Grenzganger, Kuenstlerische Identitatssuche im Ostlichen Europa”, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
“Happy Believers”, Werkleiz Biennial, Halle D
“Chaos: The Age of Confusion”, Bucharest Biennale, Bucharest Ro
”The Large Piece of Turf”, Public Space Art Projects Nurnberg D
“Dada East, Romanians from Cabaret Voltaire”, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich
Between Art and Confusion, October Salon, Turkish Bath Belgrade
Postcards, Salon of Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
Venture II, Gregor Podnar Gallery Lublijana
"Focusing Iasi/The social project" Periferic Biennial Iasi RO
"Give (a) Way", ev+a 2006 The annual Limerick Interntional Exhibition, Limerick Ireland
"Normalisation" Rooseum Center for Contaemporary Art, Malmo S
"Phantom" Charlotenburg Gallery, Copenhagen DK
"The Vincent" Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
2005
“New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politic of Representation” Generali Foundation Wien
“Istanbul”, The 9’th Istanbul Biennial, TR
“I still believe in Miracles. Dessins sans papier” ARC Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Couvent de Cordeliers, Paris
"Just do it" Lentos Museum Linz, A
“Leaps of Faith”, Nicosia Cyprus
"Paradoxes: the embodied city", Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, PT
"On difference 1, Local Context-Hybrid Spaces", Wurtenberghischer Kunstverein Stuttgart D
“Projekt Migration”, Kolnischer Kunstverein Koln
2004
No Idea, Schnittraum Koln
Artist in Residence to Festival City (unofficial), project in the frame of Off-Site, Collective Gallery Edinburgh
Normalization, group exhibition at Nova Galerija Zagreb (part of a project including Rooseum Malmo and Platforma Garanti Istanbul) curated by whw
"Comunaute", Institut d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR
"Passage d”Europe", Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
"Off site" Collective Gallery Edinburgh, GB
"Love it or Leave it" Cetinje Biennial, Dubrovnik, CR
Johann Koening Galerie Berlin, D
"Flipside" Artist Space New York, US
2003
Urban Drawings, “In den Schluchten des Balkans” Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, D
“Undesire”, Apexart, New York, US
White Chalk – Dark Issues, Open City Models for Use, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen
No Title, Galerie de ESBAM (Ecole Superieure de Beaux Art de Marseille)
2002
3(6), IBID Projects London
2001
"Flux", First Goteborg Biennial, Goteborg Konsthalle
“New Ideas-Old Tricks” hARTware projekte, Dortmund, D
“Conversation – a short notice show” Belgrade Museum of Contemporary art, S
2000-2001
“Arteast Collection, 2000+”Moderna Galerija Lublijana SL, Orangerie Innsbruck, A and ZKM Karlsruhe, D
2000
“Café Helga und Galerie Goldankauf” Kunstraum Munchen, D
“Voila! Le monde dans la tête” Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, F
“Leaving the island” PICAF, Pusan, Korea
1999-2001
"After the Wall" Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hu
Hamburger Bahnhoff Berlin, D
1999
rEST, Project for Romanian Pavilion at 48 Venice Biennial (curator Judit Angel)
Faisseur d'histoire" Casino Luxembourg
"Rondo" Ludwig Museum Budapest, HU
1998
Manifesta 2, Luxembourg
"Money/Nations" Shedhalle Zurich, CH
1997
"Selest'Art" Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Selestat, Alsace, F
“Bucharest nach ‘89” Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, D
1996
“Experiment. Romanian experimental Art from ’60 until today” Gallery ? Bucharest, RO
1995-1996
"Beyond Belief', Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, US
Since 1993 participating at all editions of “Zone” International Performance Triennial Timisoara, RO
Inserts
2001 Balkon no, Cluj
2004 “Shopping-pong” Parkett no 71, Zurich, CH
2005 MAP, Glasgow, GB
2005 Idea Art&Society Cluj no 19
2005 ARECONTEXTO Madrid winter issue
Bibliography
2006
Wilson, Michael. "Graphic Equalizer." Artforum May 2006 pag 83 85
Catrin Lorch, Writing on the Wall, Frieze april, pag 136-139
Mats Stjernstedt,. "Dan Perjovschi." Contemporary 21 Summer 2006: pag 84-87
Judith Angel,. "Dan Perjovschi: Mucsarnok, Budapest" Flash Art, Nov-Dec 2006, pag: 124
Aaron Moulton, "Periferic 7 and Bucharest Biennale 2." Flash Art Jul-Sept 2006, pag 47-53
2005
Catrin Lorch, Helden zu Strichmannchen, Dan Perjovschi nennt die Dinge in Koln beim namen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Samstag August 6, nr 181, pag 34 Feuilleton 2005
2005
Michael Krajewski, Zeichen als Subversion, Kunst Bulletin no 9, Zurich, page 38/40
2005
Marius Babias, Self-Colonisation, Dan Perjovschi and His Critique of the Post-Communist Restructuring of Identity from (from Dan Perjovschi Naked Drawings, Ludwig Museum Koln, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Koeln 2005)
2005
Julia Friedrich, The Line That Speaks (from Dan Perjovschi Naked Drawings, Ludwig Museum Koln, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Koeln 2005)
2005
Kristine Stiles, “Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, The Social Value of Perjovschi’s Art” in Idea Art and Society no 6/2005 winter issue, Cluj (reprinted in Marius Babias reader for Romanian Pavillion at Venice Biennial)
2005
Christian Egger, “Das Neue Europa. Kultur des Vermischens und Politik der Reprasentation”, Springerin, band XI Heft 1, Fruhjahr (Past Forward) pag 69
2005
Astrid Wege, Cologne, Dan Perjovschi at Schnittraum, Art Forum International, april 2005, pag 199
2004
Michael Krajewski, “Die Welt in Bleistifftformat”, Stadt Revue no 12, Koln
2004
Liviana Dan in "Dan Perjovschi Walls, Floors, Museums and Mines 1995-2003", Idea Print & Design Cluj
2003
Marius Babias “Die Offene Stadt: Anwendungsmodelle”, Kokerei Zollverein/Zeitgenosische Kunst und Kritik Essen
2003
Raimar Stange, Die Offene Stadt: Anwendungsmodelle, Artist Kunstmagazin no 56, pag 40-45
Julia Grosse, “Criticism on its own four walls”, die tageszeitung 11 July 2003, page 17
Werner Meyer, "The absurd Illuminates Cognition" in Dan Perjovschi Autodrawings, Kunsthalle Goppingen 2003
Judit Angel, “Quartier 21, Pirochka rev, Lia and Dan Perjovschi”, Praesens 1, Budapst, pag 86-87, 2003
Gabriel Coxhead, “Ibid Projects 3(6)”, Contemporary, special issue summer, june-aug, London 2002, p. 146-147
Tim Morton, “Dan Perjovschi, Nathaniel Mellors & A. Araminas”, Untitled no 28 summer, London 2002
Irmgard Schmidmaier, “A for Adult. Dizzy wie Dan”, Lezebuerger Land no 40, p. 24, October 2002, Luxembourg,
Attila S. Tordai "Aperto Romania" Flash Art no 233 nov-dec 2003, pag 61-63
“Working Title”, Balcon 12, Cluj 2002
Mika Hannula, “Gothenburg International Art Biennial”, NU, The Nordic Art Review, vol II, no 5 Stockholm 2001, pag.79
Sven Drühl “New Ideas-Old Tricks, hARTware projekte, Dortmund” Kunstforum International, 8 oct 2001
Iris Dressler “dan perjovschi” in ” New Ideas- Old Tricks 2001” Hartware 2001, Dortmund 2001 p. 34-36
Zdenka Badovinac, “Dan Perjovschi” in “2000+ The Art of Eastern Europe, A selection of works from Collections of Moderna Galerija Lublijana”, Oranjerie Congress – Innsbruck, Folio Verlag, Wien 2001, pag 162
Susan Snodgrass, "Post-Communist Expressions", Art in America, June 2000, p.47-51
Kristine Stiles, "300 words on Dan Perjovschi" in “After the Wall”, vol. II, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm 1999, p. 152-153
"Concerning Public Art and Messianic Time" in Marius Babias and Achim Konneke, eds. “Art & Public Spaces”, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1998 excerpt reprinted in Manifesta 2 Luxembourg 1998,
Carl Frederik Harleman “Introduction” in “Dan Perjovschi Piece & Piece”, Stockholm 1999
Judit Angel, "Report II" in “Dan Perjovschi- rEST”, Bucharest 1999, p. 7-9
Josee Hansen "Archiviste du present" Lezebuerger Land 35, Luxembourg, August 1999, p.17
Franciska Zolyom "Changing Dance-Card: Aspects of the Art of Central and Eastern Europe of the 1990's", Rondo, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest 1999, p.7-21,
Judith E. Stein, "Out of the East", Art in America, April 1998, p. 51-55
Ileana Pintilie "The Public and the Private Body in the Romanian Contemporary Art", Body and the East, Museum of Modern Art Lublijana, 1998, p. 135-138
“Problems in transit: Performance in Romania”, www.artmargins.com
Rosa Martinez "Manifesta" Flash Art, November-December 1998, p.102
Erwin Kessler "Perjoteca", Revista 22 nr. 28, Bucuresti, iulie 1998, p.14;
Yvonne Volkart, “Complexul Muzeal”, Flash Art, july 1997
Roxana Marcoci, "Romanian Democracy and Its Discontents", Beyond Belief, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995, p. 14-23/116-117
Janet Koplos, " Dan Perjovschi at Franklin Furnace", Art in America, July 1996, p. 91-92
Artist publications
Perjovschi, Bucharest 1992
Anthropogramming, Franklin Furnace New York 1995
Piece&Piece, Nortalje Konsthall, Stockholm 1999
New Ideas Old Tricks, hARTware projekte, Dortmund 2001
Flow, Goteborg Biennial, Goteborg 2001
Art of today-Yesterday news, Vienna Museumsquartier, 2002 Bucharest
Jumping Alphabet, Truc Spherique, Zilina 2004
Artist in Residence to Festival City (unofficial) 2004 Edinburgh
No Vacancy, Artist in Residence to Festival City (unofficial) 2004 Edinburgh
Tank You, Sevilla Biennial 2006
What happen to US, MoMa New York 2007
Artist books
Postcards from America, essay by Kristine Stiles Pont la
Vue Press New York 1995
Castle stories, Edition La Mancha, La Napoule Art
Foundation 2000
I draw - I happy, Schnittraum Koln 2004
Toutes directions, Le Quartier, Quimper France 2005
My World Your Kunstraum, Innsbruck Kunstraum 2006
Flypaper 1, Koln 2006
Dan Perjovschi Non-Stop, One Starr Press Paris 2007
A Book with an Attitude, Attitudes Geneva 2007
Dan Perjovschi A Postmodern Excommunist, Idea Cluj 2007
Books
Vis-à-vis, Nemira Bucharest 2000
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