Diskussion notes from: Kokerei Zollverein|Kunst und Kritik:
In an ex- mining factory they set up some curtains, put some pictures on the wall, set up a swimming pool outside in summer, cause the rich south voted for the closure of the swimming pool in the poor north of Essen. Some carpentry workshops for locals during mild autumn afternoons, some ice skating in winter for all for free.
art can do it for you today, who else? In the middle of the old factory witnessers were able to read some books, get some knowledge, some critical theory, do the thinking before the looking, before being passive looking at spectacles?

DAN PERJOVSCHI

Dan Perjovschi gained international acclaim in 1999 with his spatially expansive work rEST which was staged in the Rumanian pavilion at the 48th Biennial in Venice. Perjovschi bedecked the floor of the pavilion with drawings, scribbling and political graffiti which thematicised life in the post-Communist era and the role of East European art in the cultural exchange with the West. Perjovschi´s drawings and caricatures raise awkward issues concerning post-Socialist identity, whilst, at the same time, rejecting in ambivalent fashion the West’s interpretation of East European art as historically obsolete.