‘Entrance Drawing’ is a site-specific project initiated by the artist Dan Perjovschi in 2021, a transparent installation in marker on window glass, using the glass surfaces of the Theatre of Youth building. In the period 10–14 September, 2023, Dan Perjovschi will create ‘volume two’ of this project. Anyone who passes by the front of the Theatre of Youth during these days can be witnesses to this process of artistic work in real time.

‘If 2020–2022’ were the years of pandemic, 2022–2023 are the years of war. The horrors of the twentieth century, which we no longer thought possible in the twenty-first, have returned. Every day children die, murdered by terrorist states. What can art do this in these conditions? Why do we keep drawing? Why do we keep producing theatre? Why do we go to the theatre?’—Dan Perjovschi

The artist Dan Perjovschi lives in Bucharest and Sibiu. He draws critically, with humour, directly on the walls of art institutions all over the world, offering a political, social, and cultural commentary on the day-to-day events of global society. His black and white drawings are visual editorials.

He has had one-person exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; MoMA New York; Macro, Rome, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Reykyavik Art Museum; Vannabbe, Eindhoven; Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Nasher Museum, Duke University; and Kiasma, Helsinki, and taken part in group exhibitions at the Pompidou Centre, Paris; Tate Liverpool; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; MoMA San Francisco; MUAC, Mexico; MAM, Warsaw; MCBA Lausanne; and MOT, Tokyo.

He has participated in Documenta 15 and in the art biennales at Istanbul, Venice, São Paulo, Moscow, Sydney, Lyon, Dublin, Iași, Timișoara, and Jakarta.

He has been awarded the George Maciunas Prize (2004), the ECF Princess Margriet Prize (Amsterdam, 2012, with Lia Perjovshi), and the Rosa Schapire Kunsthalle Prize (Hamburg, 2016). He has been laureate of the Gheorghe Ursu Foundation for Human Rights (1999) and of the CERE Participare Civil Society Gala (2016)

Since 2010, he has run the ‘Horizontal Newspaper’ in Sibiu, an art project in the public space.