dan perjovschi – documenta fifteen

With piercing irony, Dan Perjovschi negotiates the absurdities and cynicisms of the “brave new world” in his daily drawings, sketched with a few strokes. The drawings comment on current events from around the world as well as general social phenomena or things that affect the artist personally. Perjovschi’s figures and scenarios populate the walls, floors, corridors, and windows of various art institutions. He lives and works in Sibiu and Bucharest.

Perjovschi “publishes” the Horizontal Newspaper that addresses current events through observations, conversations, and hearsay, hand-drawn over a 30-meter stretch of wall in Sibiu. He updates from one edition to the next. Unlike today’s media outlets, pushing news items directly to their consumers, Perjovschi examines the act of “updating”—which in his practice is analogue and obsolete.

For Kassel, Perjovschi is publishing a special edition of the Horizontal Newspaper, with reports on culture, politics, society, and sports, to be updated over the course of documenta fifteen. It can be perused on the pavement in the square in front of KAZimKuBa, Kassel’s former main station. On the occasion of documenta fifteen, Perjovschi’s presence in Sibiu connects the two newspapers, while forging a local network of social and cultural institutions called the Visual Art Platform (PAV).

Meanwhile, the columns on the Fridericianum’s façade have been transformed into “columns” of a yet different magazine, devoted to the lumbung values. Inside the Fridericianum, Perjovschi shares his inquiries into branding, identity-formation, and sponsorship.