DOROTTYA VÉKONY

Dorottya Vékony's artistic research examines the shifting boundaries between the social body and the biological body within biopolitical discourse, focusing on how these boundaries have transformed since the 20th century and how they operate today.

In recent years, Vékony has been researching how the boundaries of the social body and biological body within biopolitical discourse have changed over the course of the 20th century and what meaning they have today. She has been dealing with fertility and reproductive rights for several years. Her attention is directed toward situations where there is some kind of hindrance in this regard, where fertility turns into 'barrenness,' where the event of birthing and birth cannot take place. The focus of her interest is on how the women she meets deal with these (crisis) situations and create new, supportive communities determined by empathy and acceptance.
Along these concepts, and through her own artistic practice, she explores how women's bodies and behaviours, reproductive normativities, and pathologies are shaped, regulated, and controlled by different technologies and social rites.

In 2025, Vékony received both the Esterhazy Art Award and the prestigious TÓTaIJoy Prize. Alongside her doctoral studies in Multimedia Art at Moholy-Nagy University, Vékony has taken part in international residency programs, including the PART Residency in Austria.