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Memory of David Lynch

I know, 2010

Stills from David Lynch & Genero TV comp.

Cinematography: Arthur Schmidt

Cast: Ewa Mosakowska/Monika K. Adler/Arthur Schmidt

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URBAN VOID Vol. 01 - January 2025

'More than 200 pages featuring passionate photographers who specialize in urban photography around the world' (with my photography work of London street)

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Last year, I donated this photograph from the series ‘Chernobyl of Love'  to the 26th Visual Aids Benefit in New York.

Next week, it’s the 27th edition, and I’ve given another work to be auctioned anonymously. See if you can find it at: 

WWW.POSTCARDS.VISUALAIDS.ORG 

Online Sale: Begins at 10am on Saturday, January 25 at postcards.visualaids.org.

BERRY CAMPBELL GALLERY, 524 W. 26Th St., NYC 

Jan 24-26, 2025

Gallery Hours: The gallery will be open on Saturday 1/25 from 12–5pm and Sunday 1/26 12–4pm for in-person shopping and order pickup. 

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Happy New Year 2025!

Monika K. Adler

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Chalk-stone-white: The Seven Sisters, Private Photo Review, 19 December 2024, Paris, France

Pictures: Monika K. Adler | Text Aeon Rose

We walk through collapsed burial-mounds, along worn tarmac, salt-marshes, quagmires of mud, black crows impale insects; congregating, conversing, across the floodplain; the curves of the river reconfigured over time by many indentured hands. Chalk-stone-white. The land and its inhabitants becoming only subjects and resources for consumption by each successive ruling entity.

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Sick Bacchus

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” Mark Fisher

Our wounds are invisible. They devour and lay waste to us. Consumerism’s death-drive creates a deadening of affect; there’s no room for human feelings in its ideology of materialism, competition, and envy. Consumerist-societies create a shared fantasy of fulfilment synonymous with luxury products; real or fake, and available to everyone. Inanimate objects act as dead signifiers of our desires. Fixated on them, we lose our identity and connection to others, yet our greatest desire is to be recognised, to be seen by another human being; to be loved. Artificial wealth conceals artificial scarcity, and social relations become hollowed out; as a result, one third of the world’s population has mental illnesses. We’re murdering each other’s empathy. Yet within ourselves is the highest value, the simple fact of being. No expensive facade will give meaning to our lives.

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Portrait of Violetta Bacchus

IG @sickbacchusmovie

www.sickbacchus.com

Violetta, a woman from London’s wealthy elite, gets caught up in a game with her doctor; the true purpose of which will change her forever. #sickbacchusmovie

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Curation and CATALOGUE by Holger Wendland

‘Asche – Aschgeboren’; Galerie FLOX. Kirschau, Germany

Die Galerie ART FACTORY FLOX und die Künstler:

Monika K. Adler ~ Kathrin Christoph ~ Tom Glöß ~ Frank Herrmann ~ Matthias Jackisch ~ Yulia Kapustynska ~ Katrin König ~ Werner Klompen ~ Joe Lehmann ~ Katharina Lewonig ~ Irena Paskali ~ Detlef Schweiger ~ Jörg Seifert ~ Günter Starke ~ Holger Wendland

with my photography series The Pilgrimage, 2024

‘’Die Erinnerung und auch die Bilder der Monika K. Adler sind ein emotional NICHTGLEICHMACHENDES. 

Sie ist eine polnische Künstlerin und Filmregisseurin, die in London lebt und für ihre anspruchsvollen und provokativen Photographien und Experimentalfilme bekannt ist. Ihre filmischen und photographischen Arbeiten wurden von der Kritik hoch gelobt, auf Festivals ausgezeichnet und in namhaften Galerien weltweit präsentiert. Derzeit arbeitet Monika an ihrem ersten Spielfilm SICK BACCHUS. 

Monika sandte mir ein spezielles Unsere geliebte Hündin Misza starb am 14. November 2023. Es war derselbe Tag im Jahr 1905, an dem Rasputin zum ersten Mal Zar Nikolaus II. von Russland traf und das Schicksal Europas für immer veränderte.

Misza lebte fast 14 Jahre mit uns. Unsere Trauer und Leere führten uns zu unlösbaren existenziellen Fragen und zu einer Reflexion über unsere eigene unterschwellige Angst vor dem Ende. Wie kann man Abschied nehmen und sie der Ewigkeit übergeben, ohne Angst vor dem Vergessen zu haben? Der Tod ist der Zustand, in dem der Mensch nur noch im Gedenken der Hinterbliebenen existiert. In den vergangenen Wintertagen pilgerten wir auf unserer letzten gemeinsamen Reise mit einer weißen Porzellanurne, die mit blauen Vergissmeinnicht verziert war und in der sich die Asche unserer schönen Hündin befand, nach Portmeirion zu Clough Williams-Ellis’ barocker Phantasie, die in bemalten Kuppeln und Türmen Wirklichkeit geworden ist. Und dort, vom Aussichtsturm über die windgepeitschte Flussmündung blickend, verabschiedeten wir uns, und Miszas Asche entschwand über den Sand im Wind.’’

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From 18th November 2024 until 1 March 2025

'Picture This: Hope', National Justice Museum, Nottingham, England

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Lusted Men book launch in Bruxelles with my photography works depicting Men.

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Patriarchal Sabbath by Monika K. Adler , 2023

5TH Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV – Program Corpografias

21 November – 2 December 2024

A Sala de Centro de Artes da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil

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Patriarchal Sabbath in Peru!

Selección Oficial de Video Raymi 2024

Festival Internacional de Videoarte del Cusco

From November 23 to 30 in Augusta Espacio, Qine, Pukllasunchis Cultural Center, Maleza (Urubamba) and Free Cinema Room (Pisaq).

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www.instagram.com/monikakadler

www.instagram.com/aeon.rose

instagram.com/sickbacchusmovie

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Portrait of Aeon Rose, 2023, is a part of the Lusted Men exhibition at Hotel La Louisiane in Paris at the Photo Saint Germain Festival 2024.

7-10 November 2024

Vernissage 7 November 2024 | 18-22 H

From 30 October, the photography book Lusted Men by Gallimard’s Editions Hoëbeke is available in the bookstores.

RENCONTRES ET SIGNATURES

Libraire Delphire & co

Samedi 9 novembre, 19h

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I am happy to share with you that I am a part of the outstanding jury team of the Golden Shot Photography Awards 2025 @gspawards

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Pelican's Blood, 2024