Dan Perjovschi

The Horizontal Newspaper is a public art project initiated in 2010. A public “monument” in the making… For 15 years the “newspaper” has been documenting the local, national, global, artistic, social and political society we live in. Each new edition is launched at the start of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival and updated constantly until the next edition. The newspaper is open permanently, day and night, 24/7. The Horizontal Newspaper is a (different) school of text and images. The Horizontal Newspaper is produced by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu with the support of the Sibiu City Hall. 

The HN is part of the VAP – the Visual Arts Platform of the city.

A series of new friends will be publishing in the newspaper in 2024-2025, besides the traditional guests (A.L.E.G. – The Association for Liberty and Equality of Gender and Poets in Transylvania): The Farbenlicht Association for arts and therapy from Cisnădioara, Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture from Nong Pho Thailand, Alevtina Kakhidze from Ukraine et al.   

Dan Perjovschi lives and works in Sibiu. He had personal exhibitions at the following contemporary art museums: MoMA New York, Tate Modern, Ludwig Museum Cologne, Vanabbemuseum Eindhoven, Kiasma Helsinki, MACRO Roma, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunshalle Hamburg, Moderna Museet Stockholm and participated in several group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Paris, MAC Chicago, MoMa Warsaw, Moma Busan, MOT Tokyo and at the art biennale from Venice, Sao Paolo, Istanbul, Sydney, Lyon, Jakarta, Periferic Iași or Art Encounters Timișoara. In Romania, Dan Perjovschi has been exhibiting at and supporting projects and independent venues from Sibiu, Timișoara, Brașov, Cluj, Slănic Moldova, Eforie, Hosman, Târgu Mureș, Sfântu Gheorghe, Iași, Constanța, Oradea, Reșița…

In 2022 he participated in one of the most important art exhibitions in the world, “Documenta”, 15th edition, with a “twin brother” of the horizontal newspaper. For 100 days, the drawings from Sibiu and Kassel (Kulturbanhoff) were twin projects. 

Dan Perjovschi has been awarded the Gheorghe Ursu award for human rights in 1999, the Rosa Shapire award of Kunstalle Hamburg 2016 and the Princess Margriet award of the European Cultural Foundation (together with Lia Perjovschi) in 2012. 

At the 30th edition of FITS he received a special award for Friendship.

In 2016 he was the ambassador of Sibiu together with Lia Perjovschi.

Since 2008, Dan Perjovschi has been an honorary citizen of the city of Sibiu.