| 1973-1979 | Research Assistant, Institute for Agricultural Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1978 | Doctorate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1979-1984 | Executive Assistant, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1985-1989 | Director, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1989-1994 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna |
| 1995-2004 | European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Brussels |
| 2005-2011 | Chairman, Ecosocial Forum Europe, Vienna |
| 2005-2015 | Chairman, RISE-Foundation, Brussels |
| 2014-2015 | Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EU scientific programme for Expo Milano 2015 |
| since 2012 | President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna |
| since 2016 | President, Board of Trustees to the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
| | Personal exhibitions |
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| 1999 | "rEST", 48th Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavillion (with SubReal) |
| 2005 | "Naked Drawings", Ludwig Museum Koln, |
| 2006 | "The Room Drawing", Tate Modern London |
| | "Perjovschi" Vanabbe Museum Eindhoven |
| | "On the other hand", Portikus, Frankfurt |
| | "May First" Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| 2007 | "What Happens to US?" Project 85, MoMA New York |
| | "I am not Exotic I am Exhausted" Basel Kunsthalle |
| | "States of Mind. Lia&Dan Perjovschi", Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University |
| | "Hotel Europa", Museum fur Moderne Kunst Stiftung Woerlen, Passau |
| 2008 | "Recession" Ludwig Forum Aachen |
| 2010 | "Late News" Institute for Contemporary Culture, ROM Toronto |
| | "Drawing Institute" San Francisco Institute of the Arts, San Francisco |
| | "Lia Perjovschi Knowledge Museum &Dan Perjovschi Time Specific" Contemporary Art Space, Castellon |
| | "Central Court" Spencer Museum Kansas University |
| 2011 | "Not Over" MACRO Roma |
| | "The News after the News" Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seul |
| 2012 | "Between lines" Kunstraum Stein |
| | "Perjovschi" Rejkyavik Museum of Art |
| | "A Retrospective" Center for Contemporary Culture Tours |
| | "Lia Perjovschi Knowledge Museum & Dan Perjovschi Daily, Weekly, Monthly", ifa Gallery Berlin& Stuttgart |
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| | Group exhibitions: |
| 1995-1996 | "Beyond Belief", Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia |
| 1998 | Manifesta 2, Luxembourg |
| 1999-2001 | "After the Wall" Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum Budapest Hamburger Bahnhoff Berlin |
| 2000-2001 | "Arteast Collection, 2000 + "Moderna Galerija Lublijana SL, Orangerie Innsbruck, A and ZKM Karlsruhe |
| 2003 | "Open City-Models for Use" Kokerei Zollverein, Zeitgenossische Kunst und Kritik, Essen |
| 2005 | "New Europe. The Culture of Mixing and Politic of Representation" Generali Foundation Wien |
| | "Istanbul", The 9 th Istanbul Biennial |
| | "I still believe in Miracles. Dessins sans papier" ARC Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, |
| 2006 | "Unhomely", International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS), Seville, Spain |
| 2007 | "Feeling with your mind, thinking with your senses", 52 Venice Biennial |
| | "Le Nuage Magellan", Space 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| | "Brave New Worlds" Walker Art Center Minneapolis |
| 2008 | "Revolutions. Form That Turns" The 16th Sydney Biennial |
| | "Fifth floor" Tate Liverpool |
| | "Eurasia. Geographic coss-over in art" MART Rovereto Italy |
| 2009 | "The Spectacle of the Everyday" the 10th Lyon Biennial |
| | "Subversive Practices. Art during dictatorships" Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart |
| | "Seriously Funny" SMOCA Scottsdale |
| 2010 | "The Promises of the Past" Centre Pompidou Paris |
| | "Project Europa" Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gainesville |
| | "Freedom of Speech" Hamburg Kunstverein, NBK Berlin |
| | "The More I Draw", Museum of Gedgenwartskunst, Siegen |
| 2011 | "Black&White" Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
| | "Incongruous. When art makes you laugh" Musee Cantonale des Beaux Arts Lausanne |
| | "The air we breathe" Moma San Francisco |
| 2012 | "Intense Proximity:Art as Network . La Triennale" Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
| | "Tallin Drawing Triennial" |
| | "Critique and Crisis. Art in Europe since 1945" German Historical Museum Berlin |
| | "Moving Forwards, Counting Backwards" MUAC Mexico |
