Dalmonia Rognean (1993) is a Romanian artist currently living in Vienna.
Her work is deeply rooted in research, visually evolving into a metaphysical and magical atmosphere
while maintaining a connection to an empirical approach.

Rather than relying on linear narratives, she is interested in world-making. Grounding her images in the language of reality, she expands them beyond it,
creating a world where multiple narratives surrounding her concept coexist.

She is fascinated by human habits and the beauty that emerges from our ability to transform flaws into fear-confronting rituals.
Her work exists between the tangible exterior and a space beyond sensory perception, seamlessly intertwining the effable and the ineffable.

Collaborative work is an integral part of her artistic practice. She currently studies Photography and Timebased Media
at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and is co-founder of the ‘Against Photography’ collective.









 
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selected exhibitions2025
‘Narrative I. Topographies of Memory’, group exhibition, Fotogalerie Wien ☆ Vienna, AUT
Parallel Vienna, Art House Simacek X Artcare Simacek Award ☆ Vienna, AUT
‘Contact Zones’, group exhibition, Artcare ☆ Vienna, AUT
‘De-constructed’, group exhibition, PEP x Loop - Raum für aktuelle Kunst, B-Part ☆ Berlin, DE
Offgrid Days, ‘Restless draft in undried hollow’ ☆ Vienna, AUT
2024
urbanize! Festival, ‘I think I’ve seen this place before’ (ft. Roozbeh Rashnu) ☆ Vienna, AUT
‘I think I’ve seen this place before’(ft. Roozbeh Rashnu) x Arbeiterkammer ☆ Vienna, AUT
‘Other Spaces’, group exhibition, PEP x Loop - Raum für aktuelle Kunst, B-Part ☆ Berlin, DE
2023
Match!’, group exhibition, Austrian Fashion Association Offspace / Vienna, AUT
2021
Off Grid Festival, ‘Vor einem großen Walde’ ☆ Vienna, AUT
Charta: A Photobook Festival, group exhibition, ‘Mojo’ ☆ Rome , ITawards/nominationsShortlist Athens Photo Festival 2026 ☆ GR
Nominated for the Simacek Award by Jakob Lena Knebl 2025 ☆ AUT
Shortlist Biennale Photo Mulhouse 2025 ☆ FR
Winner Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023 ☆ IT
Finalist Urbanautica x Ragusa Foto Festival 2022 ☆ IT
Shortlist IPE163 by Royal Photography Society 2021 ☆ GB
Shortlist Belfast Photo Festival 2021 ☆ IE
Shortlist “Fotohof Calling” 2021 ☆ Salzburg, AUT

books/publications‘Till’, Dalmonia Rognean & Vanessa Szopory ☆ 1. Ed. of 7 ☆ AUT 2025
‘When the old river turns, we hide, we seek’ ☆ 1. Ed. of 9 ☆ AUT 2022

& part of:
‘Probelauf’ ☆ De Gruyter ☆ DE 2024
‘Fragments from Eight ☆ Zone ☆ IT 2024
‘Wildness’ Yogurt Magazine 04 ☆ Rome, IT 2023
Alltag 03 ☆ Vienna, AUT 2023
‘Cats’ ☆ Dito Publishing ☆ Rome, IT 2023
‘Mojo’, Yogurt Magazine 03 ☆ Rome, IT 2021