Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and avant-garde filmmaker based in London, The United Kingdom, known for her challenging and provocative photography and experimental films. She first gained attention with the transgressive art-film Chernobyl of Love (2012), filmed in Ukraine, near the ruins of the 1986 nuclear accident.
She graduated from The European Academy of Photography in Warsaw, Poland and the Wojciech Gerson’s National School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.
Adler is a finalist of the British Auction House & Art Stack: Christie’s First Open, 2015 and RANKIN 2020 & Sky Arts TV
In 2018 she was nominated to a Hundred Heroines – The Royal Photographic Society’s Award.
Monika K. Adler is a women’s rights activist, and has three times participated in the Feminism in London Conference (2013, 2015, 2016).
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 photography work is held in the Houses of Parliament’s permanent collection.
She is a judge in the international photography competitions: GOLDEN SHOT Awards, UAE 2025; 9th, 8th, 7th MONOVISIONS Awards, London 2025, 2024, 2023; 12TH MOBILE PHOTO FESTIVAL, São Paulo 2025
Monika K. Adler works have been shown in over 200 exhibitions, photography, video art and film festivals internationally. These have included:
ART BIENNALE
Gwangju Biennale 2012 , South Korea (Kim Kim Gallery ‘Douglasism’); The Wrong Biennale 2023-2024, Black Hole, Digital Pavillon Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, Poland; The Wrong Biennale 24: The Wrong TV, Alicante, Spain; Biennale NO, 2022, 2024 Sweden
PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVALS
Auckland Festival of Photography 2022, 2023, 2024; 2025; Lagos Photo 2020 (Home Museum) Photo Saint Germain Festival, 2020, 2024 Paris (Lusted Men) Barcelona Exp. Photography Festival 2023, 2024 (Share, Tag or Dye again); Photo London, 2019, Somerset House (Gavin Turk installation); L’image satellite Contemporary Photography Festival, Nice France (Lusted Men); Bucharest Photo Festival 2024 (Share, Tag or Dye Europe Wide;) Stirling Photography Festival, 2022, 2023, Format International Photography Festival 2021; (Mass Isolation – online); + QUAD, Centre for Contemporary Art and Film, Derby, UK (People’s Picture Giant Photo Mosaic) II International Festival of Photography, 2003 Lodz, Poland. (EAF) Photo Trends Festival, 2 Mai 2023, 2024 (Share, Tag or Dye) Cleveland Photo Festival 2022 (One Million Photos)