About

Keve Illényi is a contemporary photographer from Hungary, born in 2002, whose practice focuses on the social and visual systems that subtly shape human behavior. Working with photography as an analytical tool, he examines how structures such as consumer culture, labor, technology and institutional power influence individual agency, often operating beneath the level of conscious awareness.

He graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, where his work developed through a hybrid approach combining documentary strategies, staged scenes and conceptual image-making. Rather than producing straightforward representations of reality, his projects investigate the underlying mechanisms that organize everyday life — how spaces, objects and images themselves participate in shaping roles, desires and decisions.

Recurring themes in his work include the psychology of consumption, the transformation of domestic and working environments, the ambiguity of value and waste, and the increasing presence of algorithmic and automated systems. By isolating moments of emptiness, repetition or dysfunction, his images reveal the quiet tensions embedded in environments that are usually perceived as neutral or purely functional.

Alongside these socially driven projects, Illényi also engages with subcultural contexts, particularly electronic music scenes, where sound, collective ritual and spatial experience offer alternative forms of community within late-capitalist structures.

His diploma project was exhibited at Pixis Kultúrpont in Budapest.