INVISIBLE TIES

Museum van de Vrouw, Echt, NL

15 juni – 19 oktober 2025

Invisible Ties was developed in dialogue with the Museum van de Vrouw and its focus on women’s lived experiences. The project reflects on the often unseen forces—social expectations, internalised norms, and self-doubt—that shape identity and behaviour. Through subtle spatial interventions, the installation invites visitors to move attentively through the space and consider how personal and collective histories quietly influence everyday life.

INVISIBLE TIES

Creative Factory, Turnhout, BE
MPC XR Gallery, Turnhout, BE

8–23 March 2025

Invisible Ties explores the unseen forces that shape and constrain women’s lives. The exhibition departs from personal experience, yet extends beyond the individual to reveal broader social structures: expectations, roles, and internalised voices that quietly embed themselves in everyday life. Through subtle spatial interventions, the installation invites reflection on vulnerability, awareness, and the possibility of autonomy.

ST-ART

Strasbourg, FR
November 2024

Presented by MPC XR Gallery

At ST-ART Strasbourg, Monika Stach’s work was presented by MPC XR Gallery within the dense and accelerated context of the art fair. Set among multiple artistic positions, the presentation proposed a restrained yet deliberate presence—one that resisted immediacy in favour of attention.

Rather than competing with the visual intensity of the fair, the work positioned itself as a moment of pause, allowing meaning to unfold through proximity and duration.

AFTER THE LIGHTS

MPC XR Gallery, Turnhout, BE

October 2024

This body of work approaches fashion as a site of transformation rather than adornment. Figures move through imagined runways where identity is obscured, reconstructed, or claimed through silhouette, colour, and gesture. Faces dissolve, bodies elongate, garments perform.

Drawing on the visual language of couture—exaggeration, construction, and spectacle—the paintings treat clothing as architecture and presence as power. Together, the works unfold as moments within a fashion narrative: emergence, transformation, and assertion. They are not portraits of individuals, but embodiments of stance—of occupying space, of moving forward, of being seen on one’s own terms.

DISCOVERY ART FAIR

Frankfurt, DE
November 2023

Self-represented

The presentation at Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt marked a self-represented participation within a broad international fair context. Surrounded by multiple galleries and artistic positions, the works were encountered as a focused yet autonomous gesture.

Rooted in personal experience yet extending beyond the individual, the presentation reflected on identity, presence, and internalised structures through restraint and material sensitivity. Within the accelerated rhythm of the fair, the self-directed setting allowed for moments of pause, positioning attentiveness as both method and stance.

THE HOLY ART FAIR

The Truman Brewery, London UK
October 2023

Self-represented

The presentation at The Holy Art Fair took place within the industrial context of the Truman Brewery in London, a site marked by scale, movement, and constant circulation. Participating as a self-represented artist, the work was positioned independently within a diverse and fast-paced fair environment.

Through restraint and focused spatial arrangement, the presentation proposed an alternative rhythm—one that invited proximity and attention rather than immediacy. Rooted in personal experience yet extending beyond the individual, the works reflected on presence, identity, and internalised structures, allowing moments of pause to emerge within the density of the fair.

ARTIST MEETING

Grand Casino Knokke, Knokke, BE

August 2023

The presentation at Artist Meeting in the Grand Casino of Knokke took place within an open art fair setting marked by movement and exchange. A selection of smaller and larger works was shown alongside a digital print, allowing the practice to be encountered across scale and medium.

Within this varied presentation, the works engaged with themes of presence, identity, and transformation through restraint and visual focus. The fair context encouraged direct encounters, while the juxtaposition of formats highlighted shifts between intimacy and visibility, inviting viewers to navigate the work through attention rather than hierarchy.

PANTA RHEI

Het Hofke van Chantraine, Oud Turnhout, BE

April 2023

Groepstentoonstelling
Monika Stach · Emmy De Brouwer · Ingrid Van Erwegen

Panta Rhei — alles stroomt — bracht drie artistieke praktijken samen rond het idee van voortdurende verandering. In de intieme context van Het Hofke van Chantraine ontvouwde de tentoonstelling zich als een gelaagd geheel, waarin individuele werken met elkaar in dialoog traden zonder hun eigenheid te verliezen.

EMOTIE EN EXPRESSIE

De Warande, Turnhout, BE

June 2022

Groepstentoonstelling
Monika Stach · Urszula Marciniak · Herman Kieckens

Emotion and Expression brought together three artistic practices around a shared search for beauty—understood not as surface, but as intensity, vulnerability, and presence. Within the context of De Warande, the exhibition unfolded between inner experience and outward gesture. The works moved between silence and release, allowing beauty to emerge through passion, restraint, and emotional clarity, and leaving interpretation open to the viewer’s own search.