Lilla Kulka creates art that is mobile and site specific, on the intersection between the disciplines of fiber art, painting, and sculpture. Rather than locking herself within the bounds of any one artistic tradition, Kulka values artistic freedom, defying artificial barriers to her ability to express herself as an artist. She has always stayed true to her creative will, even when the political situations in her country made it difficult for her to present all of her work publicly in the 1970s and early 1980s.

She believes that the emotional experiences underlying her work are more important forms of inspiration than the formal visual arrangements she creates. In the process of weaving, she is often surprised at the decisions that she makes.

As an artist, Kulka is not content to sit on her laurels with one signature area of expression. She constantly searches for new means to convey her inner vision, often juxtaposing materials, such as steel and fiber, with diametrically different connotations. Kulka sees fiber art as a form of painting and vice versa; her work collages abstract elements with found objects from her personal history, industrial slabs of steel with meticulously hand-woven gobelin tapestries.

Many of the artist's pieces include elements that can be changed to enable appropriate, site-specific, display in very different spaces. Finely integrated internal constructions allow walls of cloth to bend and reflect the spatial relations of the locations in which they're hung. Kulka feels that fiber art is an ideal artistic medium for display in different kind of spaces because it can be easily manipulated to interact more readily with each new context it occupies. She always pictures her work existing within particular environments.

The artist's practice has historically made use of large figurative forms pulsating from within layers of cold horizontal and vertical lines. The juxtaposition of human shadows, outlines, and a linear geometric format has enabled Kulka to meditate on the great mysteries of life, among them pain, power, love, and faith. The abstract content of Kulka's work cannot be easily explained by the titles the artist gives to her pieces. Indeed, Kulka invites each viewer to search for and find an individual meaning in her work.