Monika Poul

Monika Poul is a photographer and visual artist based in Gdańsk, Poland, but the reach of her art is global. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Art in Gdańsk (2002), she creates conceptual art through photography, recently expanding her practice to include new technology. She uses AI as an additional tool, incorporating her own photographs as reference points. Using mixed-media techniques and her own modes of expression, Monika gives a modern, innovative character to her art. 
Her work often straddles the line between reality and imagination, blending abstraction with everyday life to explore complex emotions and relationships. 
Monika’s photography is a contemplation of minimalism, isolation, and the tension between presence and absence. Her work often features symbolic elements of Nature, representing emotional portals and spaces of inner reflection. Through these visual metaphors, she explores themes of loneliness, silence, and the fragmented nature of human existence. Her images evoke a dreamlike quality, inviting viewers to question the boundary between the real and the surreal. 
Monika creates a series of images that embody this intersection of reality and dream. The works, a mix of photography and AI, convey a sense of suspen...

Academy of Arts in Gdansk, Poland.

Her work has been exhibited in BBA Photography Prize in Berlin (2024) also on several group shows in Poland, at the State Art Gallery in Sopot at Art Armoury ASP in Gdańsk (2002). Other notable exhibitions include XXXVI PhotographicConfrontations (2005), XVII National Photographic Competition: Portrait (2007), and XXVII NationalPhotographic Competition: Portrait (2017). Her work has also been featured in publications such asthe art & literature magazine, sZAFa and the art photography magazine FOTO in Poland.