Monika K. Adler
Photographer / Filmmaker
Monika K. Adler is photographer and avant-garde filmmaker, based in London, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films.
Adler graduated from The European Academy of Photography and the Wojciech Gerson’s National School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Her works have been shown in hundreds of exhibitions, video art and film festivals internationally. These have included: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; Lagos Photo Festival 20: Home Museum; Photo London, Somerset House, London; Rankin 2020 #Self – Sky Arts; Saint Germain Photo Festival, Paris; Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden; The State Museum of Gulag, Moscow; Edinburgh International Festival, BBC 100 Women, London; Museum of New Art, Detroit; London Arts Festival; Films On Art, Portugal; EAI, San Diego; Sobering Gallery, Paris; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Galerie La Tour, Paris, and the Second International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland.
Monika K. Adler’s films and image-based works have been the subject of several academic studies and published in many magazines and publications including: The Eye of Photography, GUP Magazine, Art & Commerce + Vogue Italia, Photographer Russia, Soanyway Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Harper Baazar UK, Guardian, The Times, Leica Photography Internationale, Private Photo Review, The Ambivalent Body: On The Short Films Of Monika K. Adler, 2013, The Martyrdom of the Angel’s Body: The Female Artist as Naked Signifier, 2014, 209 Women – Photography Book, 2019, Rankin’s 2020 – photography book, 2020, Review Of Monika K. Adler’s Photographic Work: A Psychological Perspective, 2013.
In November 2018 she was nominated to a Hundred Heroines, The Royal Photographic Society’s Award to honor one hundred photographic heroines.
Monika K. Adler
Photographer / Filmmaker
Monika K. Adler is photographer and avant-garde filmmaker, based in London, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films.
Adler graduated from The European Academy of Photography and the Wojciech Gerson’s National School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Her works have been shown in hundreds of exhibitions, video art and film festivals internationally. These have included: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; Lagos Photo Festival 20: Home Museum; Photo London, Somerset House, London; Rankin 2020 #Self – Sky Arts; Saint Germain Photo Festival, Paris; Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden; The State Museum of Gulag, Moscow; Edinburgh International Festival, BBC 100 Women, London; Museum of New Art, Detroit; London Arts Festival; Films On Art, Portugal; EAI, San Diego; Sobering Gallery, Paris; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Galerie La Tour, Paris, and the Second International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland.
Monika K. Adler’s films and image-based works have been the subject of several academic studies and published in many magazines and publications including: The Eye of Photography, GUP Magazine, Art & Commerce + Vogue Italia, Photographer Russia, Soanyway Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Harper Baazar UK, Guardian, The Times, Leica Photography Internationale, Private Photo Review, The Ambivalent Body: On The Short Films Of Monika K. Adler, 2013, The Martyrdom of the Angel’s Body: The Female Artist as Naked Signifier, 2014, 209 Women – Photography Book, 2019, Rankin’s 2020 – photography book, 2020, Review Of Monika K. Adler’s Photographic Work: A Psychological Perspective, 2013.
In November 2018 she was nominated to a Hundred Heroines, The Royal Photographic Society’s Award to honor one hundred photographic heroines.
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Claudia Andujar: Sonhos YanomamiSep 5, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024The trajectory of Claudia Andujar (Switzerland, 1931), who fled Nazi persecution during the Second World War, reveals the way in which political conflicts interfere in the lives of different peoples. The artist arrived in Brazil in 1955, the country where she still lives today and where she became naturalized in 1976. (more…)
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Muriel Hasbun: Tracing TerruñoSep 29, 2023 – Jan 8, 2024Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño is the first survey in New York City of the career of multidisciplinary artist Muriel Hasbun. The photography exhibition celebrates Hasbun’s dedication to exploring identity and memory, using her personal story to examine collective histories through photography, video, and installation from the late 1980s to the present. (more…)
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Autumn at the InstitutNov 3 – Dec 24, 2023After opening its doors to the public on the occasion of five in situ previewing programmes in 2019 (extraORDINAIRE), 2020 (EN-QUÊTE), 2021 (Charles de Gaulle under the eye of the photographers and Perspectives), and in the spring of 2023 (Spring at the Institut), the Institut pour la photographie is presenting its sixth and final preview program (more…)
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Senta SimondPhotographerAfter studying aesthetic and theory of cinema at the University of Lausanne, Senta Simond completed an M.A. in Photography at ECAL, University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland. (more…)
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Ryuichi SakamotoCOMPOSER / MUSICIANIf Ryuichi Sakamoto had been born in 16th century Italy, we’d know what to call him: a Renaissance Man. But since he was born in Japan in the mid-20th century, we have to string together words like composer, musician, producer, actor, and environmental activist. (more…)
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I Remember NothingLIMITED EDITIONIn the midst of chaos we hunt for dreams. It blends together. Their memories became my memories. Once-present. A personal story of search and encounters, of escape and returning. (more…)
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Kara Walker: Back of Hand / Prince McVeigh and the Turner BlasphemiesSep 21 – Dec 3, 2023The Georgetown University Art Galleries are thrilled to present Kara Walker: Back of Hand in their de la Cruz Art Gallery, for the first exhibition of these new works in Washington by this internationally renowned artist. The exhibition displays a series of new works on paper by Kara Walker that examine themes such as complicity, racism, misremembered histories, and the violence that undergirds the legacy of the South. (more…)
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El Libro Que Tiende a Desaparecer / Simón RamirezPublicationEl Libro Que Tiende a Desaparecer by Simón Ramirez invites viewers to page through delicate thermal prints at the expense of its images disappearing with each encounter. Each time light touches the surface of the paper, the depiction of ocean waves that fill the horizontal spreads fade. (more…)
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Jan Dirk van der Burg / Desire LinesPublicationJan Dirk van der Burg (1978) photographs and films. He also creates books and in addition to Twitter biographer he is also the national authority on Olifantenpaadjes, the Dutch term for desire lines, the shortest route from A to B. (more…)
