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
At thirteen, i had already outgrown my hometown. not physically — spiritually. i no longer fit the narrative written for me. I was too observant, too intense, too unwilling to dissolve into the collective. and so I became a target.
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
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”,
Monika K. Adler’s photography work in Postcards from the Edge, Berry Campbell Gallery, Jan 24–25, 2026.
The Wrong Biennale 2025-2026 with Monika K. Adler “The world’s largest art biennale, the digital world’s answer to Venice.” The New York Times TheWrong. Returns. November 1st, 2o25 to March 31st, 2o26. PrayersToAI: Let your 404s Bloom into Flowers curated by David Quiles Guillo. See: thewrong.org/PrayersToAi
Official Selection for the Intercontinental Biennial 2026 in Panama Poster for Sick Bacchus movie created by Aeon Rose at Ontology Pictures @aeon.rose @sickbacchusmovie www.sickbacchus.com Sick Bacchus by Monika K. Adler & Aeon Rose (Ontology Pictures) has been chosen from over 30,000 submissions for inclusion in the exhibition. Intercontinental Bienal Panama, Panama Museum, 24.06.-30.06. 2026 A
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…
