Dora Kontha is a photographic artist based in Copenhagen. Her work explores the boundary between outer landscapes and inner emotional worlds, using analogue processes to shift reality into abstraction. Through long exposure, chemical interventions, and experimental techniques, she transforms observed places into atmospheric, dreamlike spaces shaped by memory and internal states. Her work moves between clarity and fragmentation, turning landscapes into soft, abstracted terrains where emotion and environment merge.
Solo Exhibition
Soulscapes — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — December 2021-February 2022
Dreamland — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — September-October 2018
Duo Exhibition
I’ve been here before — with Hanna Rédling — Ancora Contemporary Gallery, Pécs — November 2023
Group Exhibitions
Oh, how I wish I were a tree in the forest… — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — September 2025
Fckn Love — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — February 2025
Like you and me — Hungarian House of Photography, Mai Mano House, Budapest — May-August 2023
Fckn Love — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — February 2023
Fresh meat — Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest — April 2022
NFT SUX — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — July-August 2021
Winter show — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — December 2020
Dreamers — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — July-August 2020
Body Image — Budapest Photo Festival, Kiscelli Museum — April-October 2020
Deep Flows — The Modem Center for Modern & Contemporary Art, Debrecen — December 2019-April 2020
Light — TOBE Gallery, Budapest — July-August 2019
Perspectives — Budapest Photo Festival, Kiscelli Museum — April-May 2019
Piña — TOBE Project, Pegazus, Szentbékkálla — July-August 2018
Art Fairs
Art & Antique Budapest — February 2025
Budapest Contemporary — September 2023
MIA Photo Fair — October 2021
Art Market Budapest — October 2020
Unseen Amsterdam — September 2019
Photo London — May 2019
MIA Photo Fair — March 2019
Gallery Representation
Dora Kontha is represented by TOBE Gallery.
Publications
Dreamscapes — 89books — 2023 — View here
Polaroid Now — Chronicle Books — 2021 — View here
Contact
For print inquiries, please write to info@tobegallery.hu.
For commissions and other questions: dora@dorakontha.com.