SUMMER WITH MONIKA ( Monika K. Adler’s summer exhibitions)

until 11 June 2023 – Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 (photography/video art)

Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding. Violence and abuse against women remains endemic. Sex, services, and supply; this is what the system requires from women. But to make genuine progress, women must create a new, female symbolic order that re-shapes social-cooperation, roles, and prejudices, builds new kinds of relationships among women, and puts our forgotten goddesses back on their pedestals.

Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023 (video art)

The New Museum of Networked Art: Vacations in the Subconscious @ the worldwide Surrealist resorts –> Video Art Project – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne – official launch on 20 July 2023 – in the context of the Surrealist Summer Camp Los Angeles/Cologne @ Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles- Alphabet Art Centre Cologne – 22 July- 9 September 2023

Simone de Beauvoir told us that for woman there is no other way out than to work for her liberation. In her video-art work “Simone de Beauvoir told me…” artist and filmmaker Monika K. Adler employs the art historical tradition of the ‘portrait-miniature’ to communicate and re-contextualise de Beauvoir’s iconic words through a cyclical mirror performance with an unexpected conclusion.

Monika K. Adler: ”Simone de Beauvoir told me”(video art)  – The Eternal Feminine – Art in Lima 2023; Museu dos Terceiros,  Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Share, Tag or Dye Again SHOW at Lapsus, Timișoara (@lapsys.xyz) – Opening: June 8, 2023 (exhibition stays up until June 20) + Cyanotype workshop at Digital:Canvas\ ( @digitalcanvasplatform) – June 10

Share, Tag or Dye + Share Tag or Dye Again installations take over the Centro Civic Pati Llimona during Experimental PhotoFestival 2023 in Barcelona, Spain (@experimentalphotofestival) – Opening: July 18 (the exhibition will be open to the public throughout the festival: 19-23) + workshops – more info here.