Lia Perjovschi

2022 – Colours. A Deconstructed Painting (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest)
2020 – »2020. Key Words« (Ivan Gallery at Spike Berlin)
2019 – Knowledge Museum – kit (tranzit.ro/București, part of the project “Upon Us All Equally. tranzit statements for the future”, an event curated collectively by tranzit.org network and organised in Bucharest); Knowledge Museum – kit (World Problems) (Július Koller Society, Bratislava, Slovenia)
2018 – Spațiul telescopic al cunoașterii / The Telescopic Knowledge Space (Sala de lectură a Bibliotecii ASTRA, Sibiu, Romania); KM-kit 1999-today (Muzeul Național Cotroceni/ Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest)
2017 – Sense. Survival Strategies in an Indiferent Context (White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2016 – Timeline cu martori / Timeline with Winesses (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest)
2015 – Knowledge Museum Kit (Total Museum, Seoul; MUSAC, León) I Have No Time for Colour (Christine König Gallery, Vienna – with Dan Perjovschi); L’Art et l’art (Michel Rein, Paris – with Dan Perjovschi) 
2014 – Knowledge Museum Kit (Gandy Gallery, Bratislava; Rupert Gallery, Vilnius)
2013 – Knowledge Museum Kit (Tranzit Display, Prague); Lia & Dan Perjovschi (Gro Gallery Art School, Jakobstad, Finland); From the Emptiness of our Universe to the Emptiness of Our Pockets (Stacion Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo – with Dan Perjovschi)
2012 – Solo for Lia and Dan Perjovschi (IFA Gallery, Berlin and Stuttgart)
2011 – PiNG (Nantes, France); Magma Gallery (Sf. Gheorghe, Romania – with Dan Perjovschi); Club Electroputere (Craiova, Romania – with Dan Perjovschi); Lia&Dan Perjovschi Performance” (Gallery 47 Parasite, Lublijana)
2010 – Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello (Castello, Spain – with Dan Perjovschi); Dada Legacy/Anti Art (Cabaret  Voltaire, Zurich)
2009 – Museum of Knowledge (Műcsarnok-Dorottya Gallery, Budapest); B5 studio (Târgu Mures, Romania)
2008 – Lia Perjovschi: Performances 1987-2007 (Wilkinson Gallery, London)
2007 – States of Mind. Mid-career retrospective of the work of Lia and Dan Perjovschi (Nasher Museum at Duke University, U.S.); Lia PERJOVSCHI / PERJOVSCHI Dan (Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien)
2006 – Chronology (Yujiro Gallery, London); Timeline (Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
2004 – Detective (in Art History from Modernism till Today) (The Station, Zilina, Slovakia); Lia Perjovschi (Innsbruck, Austria)
2003 – Lia Perjovschi & Dan Perjovschi. Endless Collection (Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany)
2002 – Working Title (Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Wien – with Dan Perjovschi); Sense (hARTA, Timișoara; Protokoll, Cluj-napoca, Romania)
2001 – Esprit de finesse + and Esprit de finesse (Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania)
2000 – Vid-Defragmentare / Void-Defragmentation (Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest); CAA in Tranzit (Tranzit Foundation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
1999 – Sylvie Moreau Gallery (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
1998 – Zoom diaPOZITIV (Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest); CAA (Eforie Gallery, Bucharest)
1997 – Hidden Drawings and Objects (Duke University of Arts, Durham, U.S.)
1996 – Like Everything Else, It Is More Complex than Firts Meets the Eye (Dieu Donne Gallery New York)
1994 – Fünf Fenster (Kunsthalle Wien, Wien)
1992 – Perjovschi/Perjovschi (Simeza Gallery, Bucharest)

Group exhibitions – selection:

2021-2022 – The Wonderfulness of Memory (Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia); The Equality of Possibility (Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany); NEW ORDER. About art and order in uncertain times (Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany)
2021 – Real Body (Ivan Gallery, Bucharest); What Makes Another World Possible? (Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia)
2020 – Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann (Muzeum Susch, Switzerland)
2019 – Art Encounters Biennial, 3rd edition (Ishoo House, Timișoara, Romania); Condo New York (Ivan Gallery hosted by Simone Subal Gallery, New York); Rethinking the image of the world (MILL, La Louvière, Belgium, part of the Europalia Arts Festival Romania); Perspectives (BOZAR, Brussels, part of the Europalia Arts Festival Romania); The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow)
2018 – A l’heure du dessin, 6e temps – trace (Château de Servières, Marseille, France); People Get Ready (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA); A Measure of Humanity (Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
2017 – Collection Collective. Template for a Future Model of Representation (tranzit.sk, Bratislava) 
2016 – Kunst-Musik-Tanz (Museum der Moderne, Salzburg)
2014 – Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting (Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina, U.S.)
2013 – Vom Zaudern (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart)
2012 – Adaption, steirischer herbst (Graz, Austria); Atlas critique (Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France)
2011 – Beziehungsarbeit. Kunst und Institution (Künstlerhaus, Vienna)
2010 – Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw)
2009 – Gender Check (MUMOK, Wien);10 years of rotor (Rotor, Graz); Performing the East (Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg); Transmission Interrupted (Modern Art Oxford, Oxford); Artworks That Ideas Can Buy (Wilkinson Gallery, London); The Renaming Machine (Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb); DADA EAST? Contextes roumains du Dadaïsme (Musee des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France); CAA/CAA (subvision.art.festival.off, Hamburg); In the Shadow of the Monument (Gävle, Sweden); Women Artists’ Biennale (South Korea); Invisible Bodies, Conspicuous Mind (Lockman Gallery, Los Angeles); Les Femmes Parlent (Gandy Gallery Bratislava); Monument to Transformation (City Gallery, Prague)
2008 – Bildpolitiken (Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria); Dada East? Romanian Context of Dadaism (Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw); Have the Cake and Eat It Too. Institutionskritik als institutionalisierende Praxis (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna); Revolutions. Forms that Turn (Sydney Biennial, Sydney); Mapping the Contemporary (Bucharest Biennial, Bucharest); The Map: Navigating the Present (Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden); Brave New World (La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico)
2007 – Brave New World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); Learn to Read (Tate Modern, London);
Auszeit. Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit (Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland); United Kingdom summer sushi (Gallery Yujiro, London); Le nuage Magellan (Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris) 
2006 – Magelanic Cloud (Space 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris); Tranzit Philosphy (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt); Every Day…(Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria); Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire (Cabaret Voltaire – DaDa Haus, Zurich); ACADEMY. Learning from Art (MuHKA Museum van   Kunst, Antwerp); Eine Festausstellung. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (DOK, Sankt Pölten, Austria); Check-in Europe (Europäisches Patentamt, Munich); Social Process (Periferic 7, Biennial, Iasi); Romania AGAIN FOR TOMORROW (Royal College of Art, London); Interrupted Histories (Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana)
2005 – Das neue Europa (Generali Foundation, Wien); On difference #1, Local contexts-Hybrid Spaces (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart)
2004 – Who if not we…? Cordially invited (BAK, Utrecht); Publish and be Damned (CUBITT Gallery and Studios, London); Arteast 2000+ (Moderna Galerija, Lublijana)
2003 – Palpable Desequilibrium (Barat Art Gallery, Chicago); Prophetic Corners (First International Biennial Iasi, Romania); The Last European Show (Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad)
2002 – Cetinje Biennial (Montenegro); Position (Rumänien, Forum A9 Transeuropa, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Wien); Global Fusion 2002 (Palais Porcia, Wien)
1996 – Experiment. Romanian experimental Art from ’60 until today (Gallery Etaj ¾ Gallery, Bucharest)
1994 – Turbinenhall (Copenhagen)
1993 – First annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Dalles Hall, Bucharest)
1993-2002 – “Zona” International Festival of Performance Art (Timișoara, Romania); “Periferic” Contemporary Art Festival (Iași, Romania)

Performances (selection):

2003 – Official End (Zona Festival, Timișoara, Romania)
1999 – Blank (Triangle, Marseille, France; Ipswich Art College, United Kingdom)
1998 – Blank (Periferic Festival, Iași, Romania)
1997 – Blur (Tel Aviv); Approach (Ludwig Museum, Budapest)
1996 – I am Lia! (Spatia Nova 4th Biennial, St. Petersburg, Russia); Incomprehensible (Zona Festival, Timișoara, Romania); Searching, Selecting, Measuring, Height & Weight (St. Ana Lake Festival, Romania); Approach (Sf. Gheorghe, Romania); I Am Fighting for My Right to be Different (Art Museum, Timișoara, Romania) 
1992 – Nothing is Accidental (Vac, Hungary); Vertical (Nove Zamky Slovacia Karlo Vivary, Czech Republic); Prohibited Area to any Exterior Utterance (Art Camp, Costinesti, Romania)
1991 – Nameless State of Mind (Timișoara, Romania)
1990 – Instate of Nothing (Sibiu, Romania); Map of Impressions (Arta Gallery, Sibiu, Romania); Looking Back (Ankara)
1989 – Magic of Gesture/Laces (Art Academy, Bucharest); For My Becoming in Time (Art Academy, Bucharest); Hopeless Dialogue (Arta Gallery, Sibiu, Romania); Annulment (Oradea, Romania)
1988 – The Test of Sleep (Oradea, Romania)
1987 – Motion Picture (“Nicolae Grigorescu” Art Institute, Bucharest)

Stage Design (selection):

2006 – Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (The National Theatre in Bucharest); The Raconteur (Manila Cultural Center, Philippines) 
2004 – First Man by Camus (UNESCO, Romania)
2000 – Wit Margaret Edson (Teatrul Mic, Bucharest) 
1993 – The Seagull by A. P. Cehov (Teatrul Mic, Bucharest)

Curatorial projects (selection):

2013-2017 – Brainstorming 1-6 (Astra Sibiu Library, Sibiu, Romania)
2009 – Statement (Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest)
2005 – On Difference (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart – co-curator)
2004 – Formats (Kunsthalle Wien; Bucharest)
2003 – Waiting Room (Theatre Art Institute, Amsterdam)
2002 – Short guide-Position Rumänien (Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna (with Susanne Neuburger and Dan Perjovschi); Sense (hARTa Gallery, Timisoara; Protokoll, Cluj; Balkon Art Review, Cluj 
2000 – Visual id/Defragmentation (Eforie Gallery, Bucharest)
1999 – By the Way (IASPIS, Stockholm)
1998 – diaPOZITIV (Atelier 35/Eforie Gallery, Bucharest)
1993 – International Experimental Art Camp (Costinești, Romania)
1991 – Modified Space (Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest)
1987-93 – Experimental studio (Academy of Arts, Bucharest)
1985 – Informal meetings with specialists from different fields (in Oradea apartment)

Lectures/Projects/Workshops/Teaching – selection:

2017 – Lecture on The Museum of Knowledge (Fabrica de pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania); “De la propriul corp la corpul cunoașterii” / “From One’s Own Body to the Body of Knowledge” (C.E.R.E.F.R.E.A., Bucharest); “Sens” (Călina Gallery, Timișoara, Romania); Lecture at Museum Meeet Museums (Muzeul Țăranului Român / Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest)
2016 – “Survival strategies – The Contemporary Art Archive and the Knowledge Museum, 1985-today” @Archives to Come (Tanzquartier, Wien); “Looking for Sense. Hidden and Lost Ideas” (The Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, Riga); “Trying to Figure Out. A Dialogue between a Nonconformist Artist and a Scholar. Nastasia Louveau meets Lia Perjovschi” (Corner College, Zürich); “Meeting Lia Perjovschi” @Interviuri deschise/Open Interviews (Astra Sibiu Library, Sibiu, Romania)
2015 – Participant in the Something You Should Know. Artistes et producteurs d’aujourhui Seminar (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris)
2013 – “Dan Perjovschi COMMON Lia Perjovschi SENSE” (Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina)
2012 – Artists’ Congress (dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel); “Sense” (SALT Center, Istanbul); Workhop held with Dan Perjovschi (Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London); Lecture at  Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Berlin)
2011 – Lecture at TULCA Festival (James Hardyman Library, Galway, Ireland); “Museum of Knowledge” (Club Electroputere, Craiova); Lecture at The Sighet Memorial Summer School (Sighet, Romania); “Dada legacy / Anti-art” (Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich)
2010 – Lecture @Dada South? Exploring Dada Legacies in South African Art 1960-the present (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town); Workshop at Salzburg Summer Academy (Salzburg – with Dan Perjovschi)
2009 – “Shortness” (Tate Modern, London); Workshop at Salzburg Summer Academy (Salzburg – with Dan Perjovschi)
2008 – “Changements de régime, poursuite des pratiques?”, Théories et pratiques artistiques dans l’ex-Europe de l’Est (Jeu de Paume, Paris); Workshop at Salzburg Summer Academy (Salzburg – with Dan Perjovschi); Lecture at Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
2006 – “Contemporary Institutions Between Private and Public (C.I.M.A.M. Conference, Tate Modern London); Lecture at The Vincent  Stedelijk Museum  (Amsterdam)
2005 – “Dizzydent” (After the Happy Nineties Conefrence, Goethe Institute Bucharest – with Dan Perjovschi)
2003 – Artist talks at Columbia University; Northwestern University Department of Art Theory and Practice (Illinois, U.S.); Barat College; Lipa Gallery (Chicago); Art, Architecture and Design Institute (Kiel, Germany)
2002 –  Artist talk at The Architecture Institute (Bucharest)
2000 – Moderator with Dan Perjovschi  of the show “Everything in View”, producer Ruxandra Garofeanu, every Saturday 10am-1pm on TVR 1 (National TV Channel 1) on topics on contemporary Culture and Politics
1999 – Moderna Museet (Stockholm) guided tour in “After the Wall” exhibition for the Gotheborg Art Institute students; Talks at The Art Institute Bergen (Norway); Ipswich Art College (Great Britain); Norwich Art Institute (Great Britain); CIAC Bucharest ” working brunch “, TV Arte…; Conference for the Students in Art Management (Bucharest); 
1998 – Artist talks at The Brăila Art Museum (Romania) and Oradea Art Academy (Romania)
1997 – Visiting Professor at  The Art History Department of The Duke University of Art; Talks at Ludwig Museum Forum (Aachen), Brașov University (Brașov, Romania), Brăila Art Museum (Brăila, România), Art Academy Poznań (Poland) 

Artist In Residence/Fellowship:

2016 – Zurich University
2011 – Remake. Research on media art (Espace PiNG, Nantes, France)
2005 – Royal College of Art (London)
2002 – Kunstlerhaus (Worpswede Germany)
2001 – Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow (Plüschow, Germany); “Claude Nicolas Ledoux” Institute (Arc-et-Senans, France)
1999 – Iaspis / Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts (Stockholm)
1997 – Artist in Residency / Visiting Professor at Duke University (Durham, NC)
1996 – “ArtsLink” Fellowship (New York)
1994 – “KulturKontakt” Fellowship (Christine König Gallery, Wien); “Nuova Borsa” Fellowship (Accademia di Brera, Milano)
1993 – Artist in residence  at Maastricht International Art Meeting; Artist in residence at Bovile Ernica (Italy)
1990 – Artist in residence at The International Festival of Young Artists (Ankara)

Awards:

2012 – “Princess Margriett Award” of The European Cultural Foundation 
1998 – SOROS Center for Contemporary art award for curating
1990 – U.A.P. award for young artist
1985 – Small graphic award Astra Library

Bibliography (selection):

Lia Perjovschi, Timelines, Concreta Ed., Spain, 2014
Lia Perjovschi (ed.), Lia from A-Z, 1961-Today, My World in 4D, Ed. Honterus, Sibiu, 2013
Angelica Nollert et. al., Solo for Lia Perjovschi: Knowledge Museum Kit, Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012
David Crowley, Dan and Lia Perjovschi: Behind the Line, University of Plymouth Press, 2012 
Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, “Lia Perjovschi. Economy and Collection of Care in Transition”, Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, Issue 28 (Autumn/Winter 2011), pp. 112-123 
Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, The Cologne Crime, Argobooks, 2009
Lia Perjovschi, Sense 1999-2009, Onestar Press, Paris, 2008
Marius Babias & Sabine Hentsch (coord.), Lia Perjovschi. Contemporary Art Archive Center for Art Analysis 1985-2007, Ed. Idea, Cluj-Napoca, 2007
Kristine Stiles (ed.), States of Mind. Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Duke University Press Books, 2007
Lia Perjovschi (coord.), amaLia Perjovschi, Ed. Idea, Cluj-Napoca, 1996