Connected for over 30 years to the global network of major art museums, Dan Perjovschi could not ignore this first layer of his immediate reality in order to comment on, illustrate, question and sometimes directly criticize it.

The book “Radical Museology” by British author Claire Bishop, illustrated by Dan Perjovschi with sharp drawings that comment on the international museum context, serves as reference point for the exhibition now showing at the Palace of Culture. The exhibition is aimed at the Romanian and local museum scene alike, which are in obvious need of reinvention and adaptation. It is dedicated, above all, to the general public, to those who love this micro-universe which is meant to encapsulate “material and spiritual testimonies to the existence and evolution of human communities”.>>

"Muzeu / Múzeum / Museum" benefits from the generous contribution of several major European museums (where the artist developed some of his projects) which have offered art publications and catalogues of their permanent or temporary reference exhibitions. These are now available to the public within this exhibition.

Visitors are invited to leave their own contribution in terms of needs, understanding, criticism or empathy with the museum.

This is the first exhibition in a series called "Museum in the Mirror" which the artist is proposing in order to address (self-)critically the stasis and dynamics of the museum network.

About the artist

Dan Perjovschi lives and works in Bucharest and Sibiu. In the past he worked as a museographer at the Art Department of the Cris Country Museum in Oradea. In the first years after the fall of communism he worked at the Youth (and later Art) Department of the Ministry of Culture and organized the first international exhibitions of the young art scene. Since 1990 he has been collaborating with Revista 22 magazine, where he still works today. [“Even today the subject of my drawings is political, social and cultural. The same way 22 is structured”].

He began drawing “directly on architecture” in 1995 at Franklin Furnace in New York, and his first famous project was drawing on the floor of the pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
In 35 years of artistic career he participated in over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in modern and contemporary art museums around the world (Tate Modern, MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou, Ludwig Köln, MOT Tokyo, National Gallery Ljubljana) and has participated in the most important art biennials (Venice, Sydney, Lyon, Sao Paolo, Jakarta, Off Biennale Budapest, Periferic Iasi, Art Encounters Timisoara).

Now he is doing what he has always dreamed of - travelling the world and drawing it.

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"Muzeu / Múzeum / Museum"
at Târgu Mureş Palace of Culture, 2nd floor - temporary exhibition hall
Visiting period: 31.05 - 14.07.2024
Curator: Eliodor Moldovan