Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi lives and works in Bucharest and Sibiu Romania. His solo exhibitions include: “Drawing the World”, Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen (2021), The Prize Drawing“ Kunsthalle Hamburg (2016), “Unframed” Kiasma, Helsinki (2013); “Not over” MACRO, Rome (2011); “What Happen to US?” MoMA, New York (2007); “I am not Exotic I am Exhausted” Kunsthalle Basel (2007), “The Room Drawing” Tate Modern, London (2006) and “Naked Drawings” Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2005). He has participated in numerous group shows including Documenta 15 (2022);“ The Jakarta Biennial (2015); the Sydney Biennial (2008); “The Magelanic Cloud” Cetre Pompidou (2007); the Venice Biennale (2007) and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005). Perjovschi received George Maciunas Prize in 2004, The European Cultural Foundation Prize in 2012 (with Lia Perjovschi) and Rosa Schapire Prize/Kunsthalle Hamburg in 2016.
Humanity, Solidarity, Power
2023,
Wall drawings, collage Curated by Attila Tordai (tranzit.ro)
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi works above and below the surfaces. He creates drawings, keywords, and chains of words between languages, across entire walls. They contain references to what already exists. Sometimes there is already dust over them, or the connections are hidden behind masonry, distant memories nestled in the underlying structures. Since the 1990s, Perjovschi has used the medium of drawing as a starting point to rearrange sociopolitical themes in crisscrossing lines or specific collections of words and diagrams. The minimalist drawings and terms used in them address the complexity of the present with great clarity, but at the same time dissolve such clarity in newfound perspectives. The contexts range from realism to crass satire. Past and present coexist in this kind of practice. Some might think of graffiti, but Perjovschi’s wall drawings are commentaries on themselves (as well as on the world around them). Motifs appear here that connect with each other across all sorts of differentials. For the Kyiv Biennial, the artist has made a site-specific work on the back wall of Atelier Augarten.
Augarten Contemporary, hoast, IG Architektur, Laurenz, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Never At Home, Waffen Franz Kapfer, New Jörg, Ve.Sch
October 17–December 17
Main Exhibition
Curators: Serge Klymko, Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer