AURORA KIRÁLY
  • Projects
    • Photography >
      • 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
    • Paintings >
      • Héroïnes, 2013-2021
      • Tales from a Topographic Skin, 2013
      • Claude Cahun Revisited, 2012
    • Drawings >
      • Structures, 2018
      • Viewfinder Mock-Up, 2016-ongoing
      • Viewfinder, 2014-2015
    • Textile Works >
      • 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 >
      • 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 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 ION GRIGORESCU
by Magda Radu

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


Ion Grigorescu (born in 1945) is one of the most important Romanian artists of the past  decades. He has been using a wide range of media – painting, photography, video, and performance – addressing themes such as sexuality, the body, labor, and politics, using time as a transformative element. By the end of the 70s Grigorescu began recording his performances, which concentrated on ritualised actions around his body. His more recent exhibitions include: “Performing History” (with Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova), The Romanian Pavilion at the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale (2011); “The Diplomatic Tent” (with Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova), Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest; “Horse/Men Market”, Museum Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Austria, 2011 (solo); “Out of Place”, Tate Modern (2011); “Ostalgia”, New Museum, New York, 2011; 6th Berlin Biennale, 2010; “Oedipus the Wanderer”, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany, 2010 (solo); “Ion Grigorescu, In the Body of the Victim 1969-2008”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2009 (solo); “The Poor People Are Fending for Themselves”, Angels, Barcelona, 2009 (solo); Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007); “Ressources”, with Geta Brătescu, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2007); “Ion Grigorescu, Am Boden”, Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2006).
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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.

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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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