‘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
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.
What’s on? Monika K. Adler: Chalk-Stone-White’ – 22nd BIEAF 2025 – The 22nd Busan International Environment Art Festival 2025, Busan, South Korea 01. 09. 2025 – 28. 02. 2026 ‘Nostalgia’ – Festival de Fotografia de Paranpiacaba 2025, Paranpiacaba Brasil (Foto Unica program) 13-14 September 2025 Patriarchal Sabbath (video) – The Retrospective Quito 2025 screening program
