Aurora KIRÁLY is an artist working at the intersection of photography with drawing, textile art or installations, exploring how the mind records, relives, remembers. She is particularly interested in exploring feminist theories in relation with identity-making and the status of women in society. Her works relates to complex connections between events, public and private sphere of experience.

As of 2007 she has taught at the Department of Photography and Dynamic Image of the National University of Arts, Bucharest; an experience that has made her re-evaluate her artistic activity from the ’90s-2000 and come back with new projects. In her recent works she focuses on how artists relate to recent history/art history.

Since 2001 she has been the director of Galeria Nouă. Between 2001-2008 she curated an important number of exhibitions and events at this exhibition space. In 2006 she coordinated the book “Photography in contemporary art. Trends in Romania after 1989”, published by Galeria Noua at Unarte Publishing House. Between 2007-2012 she coordinated Witnesses XXI – Revisiting the Past / A collection of video interviews with Romanian artists, art critics and curators from different generations.
She lives and works in Bucharest.

2013 - Ph.D in Visual Arts, National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest with the thesis Photography in Romanian Contemporary Art, Coordinator: Professor Ruxandra Demetrescu.

Exhibitions (selections):
2026
​FOCUS on The Collection, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, PL
Upcoming: Labouring Bodies (curator: Sandra Beate Reimann), Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH; Aurora Király: Rethinking the Photographic Frame (solo show), Fondation Fernet-Branca (curator: Olga Osadtschy), Saint-Louis, FR; The Picture. Explaining Photography in 36 Works (curator: Horațiu Lipot), Scânteia+, Bucharest, RO; Aurora Király – Iosif Király, King Charles III's House in Viscri, RO
2025
OFFSCREEN (solo presentation), Anca Poterașu Gallery, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, FR; Liste Art Basel (solo presentation), Anca Poterașu Gallery, Basel, CH; Beyond the Photographic Frame (solo show, curator: Sonia Voss), Anca Poterașu Gallery, București, RO
I Move the City Through My Memory (duo show together with Iosif Király, curator: Cristina Stoenescu), Pittner School, Reșița, RO; Why We Should All Be Feminists (curatori: Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu), /SAC, București, RO; Feminine Archeologies (curator: Ruxandra Demetrescu), Gloriae Gallery, Craiova, RO; Touch Nature, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT și /SAC, București, RO
​2024
4 Walls – Voices Section (prezentare solo, curator Sonia Voss), Paris Photo (curator: Sonia Voss), Grand Palais, Paris, FR; The Line of the Valley (curator: Marie Maertens), ARAC / Anca Poterașu Gallery, București, RO; Touch of Nature (curator: Sabine Fellner), /SAC, București, RO; RAD Art Fair, Anca Poterașu Gallery, ediția a II-a, București, RO; De/Coding Textile. Contemporary Art Reflecting Textile Traditions (curator: Maria Holter), Künstlerhaus FACTORY, Viena, AT; Pays sage, Muzeul de Artă, Craiova, RO

​2023
Back Stages (duo show together with Sophie Thun, curator: Mirela Baciak), ARAC, București, RO; Blue Sun (curator: Anja Lückenkemper), Muzeul de Artă, Timișoara, RO; Obselfed (curator: Marta Santi), Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin, DE
​2022
Paris Photo (prezentare duo cu Iosif Király), Anca Poterașu Gallery (Main Section), Paris, FR; Puls 2021, MNAC – Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, București, RO; Puls 22, MNAC, București, RO
2021
Borrowed Memories, Waldburger Wouters, Bruxelles, BE; NADA x Foreland (curator: Jesse Greenberg / JAG Projects), Catskill, New York, USA; from somewhere other than myself (solo show, curator: Cristina Stoenescu), Anca Poterașu Gallery, București, RO; 12 Years After. A Survey of Romanian Art in 180 Works, MNAC, București, RO; Corsets Then & Now, Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2020
In Midst of the Worst, the Best of Times, SUMO – The Odd Year, lítost, Praga, CZ
2019
Ex-East. Past and Recent Stories of the Romanian Avant-Gardes (curator: Ami Barak), Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR
2018
Orient – Trauma & Revival: Contemporary Encounters (curator: Michal Novotný), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV / BOZAR, Bruxelles, BE / Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
Conjectures (solo show, curator: Cristina Stoenescu), Spinnerei Leipzig Project Space, Leipzig, DE
2017
Constructed Geometries. Space / Time / Memory (solo show, curator: Cristina Stoenescu), Anca Poterașu Gallery, București, RO; Life a User’s Manual, Art Encounters Contemporary Art Biennial (curatori: Ami Barak, Diana Marincu), Timișoara, RO
2016
Reality Check (solo show, curator: Liviana Dan), Calina Gallery, Timișoara, RO
Girls with Ideas [Boys and Paintings] (curators: Delia Popa, Gilles Eldridge), Lateral ArtSpace, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2013
Good Girls – On Memory, Desire, Power (curatori: Bojana Pejić, Olivia Nițiș), MNAC, București, RO
2000
Feminine Archaeology (solo show, curator: Irina Cios), International Center for Contemporary Art, București, RO; Melancholia, expoziție personală (curator: Maria Bojan), Sindan Cultural Center, Cluj-Napoca, RO

Her works are in art collections such as MoMA – The Museum of Moder Art, New York, Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), France, The National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, MARe-Bucharest, the Contemporary Art Collection – European Parliament. and in private collection.