Aron Lodi

Áron Lődi's practice spans installation, sculpture, image-making, writing, and curatorial and publishing collaborations. His work delves into the transitional, paradoxical, and horror-esque social mechanisms at the intersection of the Eastern Bloc and current-day global political and economic struggles. Referencing gothic fiction, internet memes, industrial transformation, and utopian politics, he explores the spectral potential of cultural and material memory. In his recent project Metallurgia, Lődi explores Hungary’s haunting past and various future visions through the country’s largest steel plant amid a financial crisis. He engages in an aesthetic and conceptual inquiry into the genre of industrial gothic and theories of new materialism to uncover the unrealized (spectro-)politics of the temporalities and identities of the factory and its workers. Áron Lődi graduated with an MFA from the Dirty Art Department at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2023). He is a founding member of the Budapest-based U&K Magazine publishing project and part of the artist duo ALAGYA. In 2022, he initiated a para-academic program and lecture series titled Contaminating The Soil That Nurtures Greed focusing on "Second World" cultural strategies. In 2024, he co-organised the MetaforumX: Permacrises conference at Trafo Gallery, Budapest in collaboration with INC, Amsterdam. His works were presented at Jedna Dva Tri Gallery, Prague (CZ), A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava (SK), Vunu Gallery, Kosice (SK), Ultrastudio Gallery, Pescara (IT), Semester9, Amsterdam (NL), and 1111 Gallery, Budapest (HU). In 2023, he was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE).