Aurora Kiraly

Aurora Király approaches the contemporary art field from different perspectives: as an artist, initiator of educational and cultural projects.

As an artist she is working with photography and installation in a variety of media. During the 1990s and the 2000s, her projects explored the capacity of photography to record the quotidian, by combining auto-referential fragments with documentary aspects of day-to-day life (e.g. Melancholia, 1997 - 1999). The self-reflecting images have provided an interesting point of departure for further installations that included collage (Viewfinder 2014 – 2015 and Viewfinder Mock-ups, 2016 - ongoing), text (News Convertor, 2016 and News Remix, 2016 - 2017), textiles (Soft drawings, 2020), and even painting (Heröines, 2013 - 2015).
Her most recent works question the sources or artistic inspiration depending on the context, the recent history as well as the references in art history of the status of women artists.

Between 2001 – 2009 Aurora Király ran one of the most significant art-spaces for photography in Romania, Galeria Nouă and since 2007 she has been teaching at the department of Photography and Dynamic Image, at the Bucharest National University of Arts. Both roles have informed her artistic process focused on memory and the process of photography, actively supporting her peers and cultural workers in the emergent photography art scene in Romania through exhibitions, publications and artistic interventions.