Aron Lodi's (b. 1996, Hungary) practice spans installation, image-making, writing, publishing, and curatorial collaborations. His work engages with the contradictions of contemporary society, oscillating between horror stories and emancipatory possibilities. While dealing with contemporary ideologies, economic precarity, and the heritage of the Eastern Bloc, he often references concepts of gothic Marxism, new materialism, and utopian politics. He translates this conceptual framework into physical form through an aesthetic inquiry into cultural and material memory. His installations combine sculpted or "fabricated", and found elements, creating interconnected visual narratives. Through his works, he aims to construct and deconstruct stories about individual and collective agency in the face of contemporary crises.

In his recent project Metallurgia, he explores Hungary’s haunted present through the lens of a workers union at the country’s largest steel plant confronting a financial crisis boosted by global mechanisms and anti-democratic policies. He combines fieldwork with world-building techniques inherent to fiction writing to speculate on the spectral potential of alternative histories or temporalities. He uses the conceptual framework of ‘industrial gothic’. A literary genre that emerged in the 18th century to capture and strategically highlight the violence of industrialization. Through a variety of sculptural, text- and image-based works, Aron Lodi aims to depict how the violated space and the spectral presence of utopian ideas coalesce.

Aron Lodi 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" artistic strategies. In 2024, he co-organised the MetaforumX: Permacrises conference at Trafo Gallery, Budapest in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, 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). In 2024, he was awarded the Klara-Herczeg Prize from the Studio of the Young Artists' Association, Budapest (HU).