AURORA KIRÁLY
  • Projects
    • Photography >
      • Timeline of Transformation, 2024
      • How You Remember Space and Architecture, 2023
      • Larva, chrysalis, butterfly, 2023
      • Duo, 2023
      • Rhythm, 2023
      • from tiny spores..., 2023
      • Ecology of the Afterlife, 2022-2024
      • Architecture. Patterns. Self-Portraits, 2022
      • Stillness Studies at Villa Empain, 2022
      • History. Pain. Dust, 2022
      • Viewfinder. Diffraction, 2021
      • Viewfinder Clash, 2020-2021
      • Soft Drawings, 2021
      • Subconscious Narratives, 2021
      • Equal. Art and Feminism in Nowadays Romania, 2016
      • Reconnection, 2015-2016
      • Red Light / Green Light, 2014
      • Failed Re-enactement of Claude Cahun's Medusa, 2013
      • The Red Dress, 2001
      • Feminine Archeology, 2000
      • Kaleidoscope. Selfportrait, 1998
      • Untitled, 1997
      • Melancholia series, 1997-1999
    • Video >
      • Larva, chrysalis, butterfly, 2023
      • Rhythm, 2023
    • Paintings >
      • Héroïnes, 2013-2021
      • Tales from a Topographic Skin, 2013
      • Claude Cahun Revisited, 2012
    • Drawings >
      • Structures, 2018
      • Viewfinder Mock-Up, 2016-ongoing
      • Viewfinder, 2014-2017
    • Textile Works >
      • Héroïnes - Spinning the fibers into fine yarn #1, #2, #3, 2024
      • Héroïnes - Spinning the fibers into fine yarn, 2024
      • Women at work II, 2024
      • Women at work I, 2024
      • How You Remember Space & Architecture (working title), 2022
      • Ideas Come & Go, 2022
      • Walking, Breathing, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives - Fountain, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives, 2020-2021
      • 50s or Soft Despair, 2020
      • ​Ee um fah um soo Foo suii too eem oo…, 2018
    • Mixed media / Objects / Installations >
      • Spin, baby, spin!, 2023
      • Settings, 2018
      • News Remix, 2016-2017
      • Life-Love-Memory, 2016
      • News Convertor, 2016
      • Drifting..., 2016
      • Untitled_Mixed Diary, 2013
    • Artist Books >
      • Diary Study #1_April-June 2016
    • Research/Documentary projects >
      • WITNESSES XXI – REVISITING THE PAST project presentation, 2007-2012 >
        • Interview with Ion Grigorescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Geta Brătescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Peter Jacobi, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Constantin Flondor, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Gheorghe Vida, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Ioana Vlasiu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Alexandra Titu, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Wanda Mihuleac, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Mihai Oroveanu, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Mircea Florian, by Raluca Nestor
        • Interview with Magda Cârneci, by Cristiana Radu
  • News / Archive
    • Paris Photo 2024_Voices Section
    • Back Stages, ARAC Bucharest, 2023
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2022
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • from somewhere other than myself @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • The Show That Never Was @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • Corsets Then & Now @Zina Gallery, 2020-2021
    • Xplore Festival #15 @ WASP, 2020
    • ARCO Madrid - Booth 9G02
    • Ex-East. Past and recent stories of the Romanian avant-gardes, Espace Niemeyer, Paris; 2019
    • At Different Angles @MNAC Bucharest, 2018
    • Conjectures @Anca Poterașu Spinnerei Leipzig, 2018
    • Orient / Something in Between, BOZAR, Bruxelles, 2018
    • Woman, All Too Woman @Art Museum Timișoara, 2018
    • Constructed Geometries @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2017
    • Ex Future @ Arcub, 2016
    • Our History about the Others @ Scena9, 2016
    • Girls with Ideas [Boys and Paintings] @ Lateral Art Space, 2016
    • Reality Check @ Calina Gallery_March 2016
    • Finalist FID Prize_March 2016
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Interview with GETA BRĂTESCU
by Magda Radu

Image: Valentin Purza
Video editing: Larisa Sitar
Video Pre-editing: Aurora Király, Simona Dumitriu
Subtitles: Simona Dumitriu


Geta Brătescu (born 1926) first studied at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest with the renowned literary critic and writer George Călinescu and later she enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest where she studied drawing with the artist Camil Ressu.  Geta Brătescu’s primary medium is drawing, but she expanded her practice to include a wide range of artistic media: collage, tapestry, object, installation, photography, experimental film, video.  Among her more recent exhibitions: Istanbul Biennale, 2011; “Museum of Desire”, MUMOK, Vienna, 2011; “Ostalgia”, New Museum, New York, 2011; “Alteritate”, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 2011 and Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, 2010; “The Work, The Image, The Sign”, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, 2011; “Geta Brătescu”, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, 2008; “Ressources”, with Ion Grigorescu, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2007) 
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​Magda Radu is a curator and art historian based in Bucharest. She is the editor of the book André Cadere / Andrei Cădere (MNAC, 2011). Together with the artist Alexandra Croitoru she initiated, in 2011, the program 
Salonul de proiecte, a program dedicated to the organization of exhibitions, presentations and debates focusing on Romanian contemporary art. In 2010 she curated Here and Then, a section of the large-scale exhibition Romanian Cultural Resolution (featured in a comprehensive catalogue published by Hatje Cantz). Magda Radu has been teaching the course “Eastern European Art under Communism: the Romanian Case” at the National University of Arts in Bucharest since October 2010. Her texts have been published in various catalogues, journals and magazines dedicated to contemporary art.


The project is coordinated by Aurora Király, based on a concept developed together with Iosif Király.
Produced by: Galeria Nouă
Supported by funds from: Erste Foundation, AFCN
With the support of: MNAClab
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