Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and avant-garde filmmaker, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films.
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  • Writer (4 Credits)
    Sick Bacchus
    Feature
    Patriarchal Sabbath2023
    Experimental
    Nostalgia2022
    Other
    On Being an Angel2020
    Experimental, Short
  • Director (4 Credits)
    Sick Bacchus
    Feature
    Patriarchal Sabbath2023
    Experimental
    Nostalgia2022
    Other
    On Being an Angel2020
    Experimental, Short
Birth Date
January 5
Birth City
Gostynin, Poland
Current City
London, UK
Gender
Female
Eye Color
Green
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Married To
Aeon Rose
Is a Photographer. Monika K. Adler's Photographic works are represented by Trinity Gallery in London & Oslo and Art + Commerce - Photo Vogue Italia (2018).
Her work has been shown in over a hundred exhibitions internationally, both in museums, film and video-art festivals, public and commercial art galleries (2018).
She is a Feminist, and has three times participated in the Feminism in London Conference (2013, 2015, 2016).
In February 2013, Adler took part in 'One Billion Rising,' a movement founded by Eve Ensler with the aim of ending rape and sexual-violence against women. As part of this she presented a video-art work Misery of my soul (2013) at the exhibition Bodies of silence #3: When Words Are Made Flesh in London.
Her photograph 'Mademoiselle Guillotine' was presented in a global digital initiative Art For Freedom curated by Madonna (Live Art Curation: 14 April 2014, 7pm EST on BuzzFeed.).
In November 2018 she was nominated to a Hundred Heroines - The Royal Photographic Society's Award to honour one hundred photographic heroines.
As one of two-hundred of the best female photographers in UK, the project 209 Women selected Adler to photograph one of the female members of UK parliament. The exhibition showed at the Palace of Westminster, London and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2018 - 19. Her work is held in the Houses of Parliament's permanent collection.
In New York, 2009, she by chance met French actress Geneviève Gilles, lover of legendary Hollywood magnate Darryl F. Zanuck. Gilles helped Alder in a difficult moment in her life.
She graduated from the European Academy of Photography in Warsaw, Poland.
Her work 'The Beginning' was a part of installation by 'Brit Art' artist Gavin Turk, entitled 'Portrait of an Egg' shown at Photo London 2019, Somerset House.
Her grandfather, after returning from a concentration camp in Germany, worked as a movie-projectionist in a cinema named "Dawn" in a small town in Mazovia, Poland.
Adler is the great-granddaughter of Jan Koperski, a cavalryman from The Battle of Warsaw (1920); also known as the Miracle of the Vistula. It was one of the most important battles in history which prevented the spread of communism in Europe.
I do not smoke myself, I only play the role of a smoker in my films and photography work. The smoke gives an additional dimension to the flat reality of images.
Why the world doesn't need a new Francine Bacon or Annie Warhol?. Because they have Monika K. Adler. (About her Art Work)
Development of our own consciousness is the only way for humanity to progress. We invest much of our resources in new technologies and the only advance we have is one: production of objects. Devoured by consumerism and degraded to the level of 'ego,' we've lost contact with our souls. By working to expand our consciousness, we can create a more valuable life.
I have learned to 'let go' of events, people, and my own illusions. Pressure creates resistance. By letting go we open ourselves to new possibilities, live more carefully, without a fight, and move in the stream of higher necessity in which we are happier.
Witkacy introduced me to art. His 'independence', life's philosophy, disdain for mediocrity; and his incredibly authentic, still contemporary portraits implanted in me a passion for self-expression.
History and dreams brought me to filmmaking.
Violence is a tool of control used by people who want power or have power. Minor or Major. No desire to rule over other people, no violence. Art has nothing to do with this.
Being an artist requires many sacrifices.
Don't follow others, think for yourself.
I have no masters. I like photographers work, for instance, Helmut Newton, Witkacy or Francesca Woodman, but only film and literature can really influence me, only there can I find ideas which inspire me.
The pressure to succeed is brutal. This competitive approach is effective in other disciplines ... but exhausts and neuters artists. The result is a bloodless simulacrum of cultural life.
Life and people have become 'hollowed out' by consumerism in a society which is still one of immense disparities of wealth and opportunity ... Our powerlessness in the face of this has created a societal-level of depression. A narcissistic individualism, contrived to suit the needs of consumerism, has fractured our society; we live separately side by side, sharing only space - as a result loneliness is endemic.
Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and avant-garde filmmaker, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films.
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