Aura Roig

Aura Roig (*1994 in Tortosa, Spain), graduated from Fine Art at the University of Barcelona with an international exchange at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and is a 2025 alumna of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt in Berlin. Their work delves into gender issues, care work, and emotions through painting, exploring power dynamics and societal expectations from an autobiographical perspective.

Recent exhibitions include Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Sender, Hamburg, Haus Coburg: Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst (all 2026), Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Futur3: Wochen für Kunst und Diskurs, Kiel, Fight or Flight II at StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin (all 2025), the Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Tarragona, Cicle d’Art Contemporani de Reus al Centre de Lectura, Reus, 101 Projectspace, Berlin (all 2024), Lo Pati Centre d’Art de les Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta, and Museu de Tortosa (2022).

Roig has been a resident at Hangar, Barcelona (2025–26), and the recipient of the Premi Artiga a la Nova Creació (2023) and the Fundació Privada Duran & Martí Award for the development and expansion of artistic studies in 2019 and 2024, which funded the artistic residencies Duplex AiR, Lisbon (2025), and Pilotenkueche, Leipzig (2024).

I blend struggles and humor, creating my own form of magical realism that mixes personal experiences and society’s corset of rules and roles into quiet dramas that also serve as a form of healing. My work deals with issues of care, gender, and power dynamics. On the canvas, the domestic and the absurd coexist, revealing the surreal nature of traditions and everyday life. Acknowledging the political potential of feminist autobiography, I see vulnerability as a source of strength and recognize emotions as an important language.

Through an intuitive process, bodies merge with objects, leak, and transform: eggs with long hair, sweaty vegetables, eerie animals, separate body parts being enlarged or multiplying. A plate of spaghetti with my grandmother’s face is not just a plate of spaghetti, but a comment on care work. A chicken among eggs with man’s faces questions reproduction, patriarchy, and expectations.