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 shortly after joined Revista 22, the first independent 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 for Roșia Montană, Colectiv, and Gezi Park marches and protests. He calls himself a "drawing provider" and makes his drawings 'copyleft' — free for any activist purpose. "Draft," his retrospective exhibition (with Lia Perjovschi), is open at ARCUB Bucharest until September 2026.