OFFICIAL SELECTION INTERCONTINENTAL BIENAL PANAMA BEST POSTER 2026 I am delighted to announce that the official poster for Sick Bacchus has been selected for exhibition at the Intercontinental Bienal Panama 2026 and received recognition in the Best Poster category. The exhibition will take place from 24–30 June 2026 at the Panama Museum, bringing together contemporary
A great portrait does not answer the question of who someone is. It deepens the question. Throughout history, the greatest portraits have never been simple records of appearance. From Renaissance paintings to the iconic photographs of the twentieth century, portraiture has always been an attempt to capture something more elusive: character, desire, ambition, vulnerability, and
International Video Art Biennale “impressions Of A Changing World”, ŠMMC, Kaunas, Lithuania 17 April – 31 May 2026 I’m delighted to share that my video art work Migratory Romance by Monika K. Adler is currently on view at the 5th International Video Art Biennale Impressions Of A Changing World, presented at Šiuolaikinio meno ir mokslo centras (ŠMMC), Kaunas,
“Sacred”: something dedicated to a deity, considered holy, or set apart for religious use, demanding high respect and reverence. “Decadence”: a state of moral, cultural, or social decline and deterioration, often driven by excessive self-indulgence, luxury, and a pursuit of pleasure.… SACRED DECADENCE When did you first drink absinthe?Mine was in May 1996, in the
What happens when the maker becomes the medium? When the gaze turns inward and the body begins to carry the narrative once held by the lens. For years, my work has lived behind the camera—framing stories, shaping light, and constructing visual narratives as a photographer and filmmaker. Through this process, I developed a deep sensitivity
From experimental video art to narrative arthouse cinema, my upcoming features Sick Bacchus and The First Hour after Violent Death explore the boundaries of storytelling, emotion, and visual poetry. As a filmmaker, my journey began in the intimate and exploratory realm of video art and experimental cinema. These early works allowed me to play with
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.
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
Art is my practice of freedom — a rehearsal in being, in soft strength, in radical presence. In my series On Being an Angel, I explore freedom as a lived, embodied experience — especially the freedom of a woman who chooses to exist as an artist. To create not as decoration, not as permission-seeking, but
Freedom looks like disorder, It smells like decay, And still, it is freedom. The Scent of Freedom In the final years of communism, a system built on control, my grandmother—a nurse at a psychiatric hospital in central Poland—used to take me with her to work. I was a child, watching quietly. The hospital had been
