Dan Perjovschi (RO)

Born in Sibiu in 1961, Dan Perjovschi began making art on the walls of his apartment under Ceaușescu, because the regime left him no other surface for truth. He participated in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and the next day joined Revista 22, the first independent oppositional weekly in Romania, for which he has drawn every week since 1990 – thirty-five years of drawing as journalism, as witness, as refusal to look away. His work has appeared at MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Documenta, but also on protest banners in Cluj, at Roșia Montană marches, and during the Gezi Park protests. He calls his drawings ‘copyleft’ – free for any activist purpose. His 2025 retrospective ‘Romania – A Retrospective 1985-2025’ opened at the Corneliu Miklosi Museum in Timișoara.