‘DECADENCE AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE’, FLANEUSE MAG, ISTANBUL, TURKEY, june 2026 PART OF THE INTERVIEW 1. In Sacred Decadence, you present decadence not as an escape, but as a form of resistance. What inspired this ide My biography is my inspiration. I learned resistance long before I learned art. Sacred Decadence emerged from that
In 2012, I left my homeland carrying only one handbag. In 2012, I left my homeland carrying only one handbag. Among the few things I brought with me to London was a porcelain owl lamp — a small object meant to keep me connected to wisdom, memory, and direction. The owl originally came from Berlin.
Through An Ongoing Exploration of Identity and Impermanence Across the past decade, my work in avant-garde cinema and video art has traced a continuous thread through memory, identity, and transformation. These short films are not bound by traditional narrative structures; instead, they emerge as fragments—emotional, philosophical, and deeply personal—inviting the viewer into shifting inner landscapes.
The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon
‘Freedom begins where the old story ends’. ophelia rising now. ”OPHELIA RISING’ IS AN INVITATION: TO STEP OUT OF THE WATER, TO LET THE OLD SELF DISSOLVE, AND TO RESURRECT INTO A FREER EXISTENCE. She is taught to be beautiful before she is taught to be free. From childhood, the script is whispered into her
We walk across collapsed burial mounds, along worn tarmac and salt marsh, through quagmires where black crows pick at the remnants of life. ‘THIS TERRAIN MIRRORS OUR OWN MOMENT. PAST AND PRESENT NO LONGER SIT IN SEQUENCE BUT OVERLAP, ERODING INTO ONE ANOTHER. THE CHALK CLIFFS, CONTINUALLY SHAPED BY PRESSURE AND WEATHER, REVEAL HOW ALL
Born during the collapse of communism, my childhood was spent between my grandfather’s cinema and the psychiatric hospital where my grandmother worked. I silently observed the fragility of human nature and learned early on that sanity is political and reality is negotiable.
The Rare Storyteller feature Between Crowds and Horizons by Monika K Adler. Visual Storytelling.
World Artist Award at Busan International Environment Art Festival I am deeply honoured and grateful to share that I have received the World Artist Award from the 22nd Busan International Environment Art Festival (BIEAF) in South Korea. The Lost Center – Invitation Exhibition 2026 The award is connected to the invitation exhibition “The Lost Center”,
Photography articles September 2025 Monika K Adler – Between Crowds and Horizons Rare Storyteller Magazine, 26 Sept. 2025 Read here… The Fictional: How Monika K Adler exposes power, truth, and manipulation through photography About Photography Blog, 7 September 2025, UK Read here…
