Biography

Monika is an architectural designer, dancer and award-winning filmmaker, whose artistic work is shown on festivals and exhibitions world-wide.

She started her career as a professional ballet dancer, before entering the world of architecture and filmmaking. Monika taught architectural design as Visiting Professor in the US and Research Associate in the field of architecture and film at the University of Cambridge. Monika is founding director of the Liverpool-based film/architecture production company CineTecture Ltd.

Monika has a large portfolio of academic, commercial, and art-based moving image productions. In her artistic Oeuvre, her work emphasizes the creative use of the 'body in motion' as well as the use of 'space' and 'screen space' as a narrative expressive element. In terms of research, her specialty is the production of films, digital animations and motion graphics that emphasize and illustrate complex themes in an understandable and accessible way to allow for greater impact.

Her artistic work regularly features at major international exhibitions, such as: Venice Biennale in Architecture (2000; 2021); German IBA Exhibition (International Building Exhibition 2004, 2005); The Beyond Media Festival (Florence, 2009); Filmforum (Udine, 2009); Architecture & Design Festival (New York, 2010; Chicago 2011); Film Casino (Vienna, 2011); Fondazione Maxxi (Rome, 2011); Arts Institute of Guangdong, (China, 2019); Nobel Prize Museum (Stockholm, 2023); Museum of the Future (Dubai, 2023).

Monika won twelve film awards; TVe Global Sustainability Film Award in 2013, 2019 and 2020 awarded at BAFTA; Vegas Movie Award in 2020; Impact DOCS Award in 2020; Iconic Images Film Award in 2021; Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival in 2021; New York Istanbul Short Film Festival 2021; X-World Film Festival 2021; Venice Under the Stars - International Film Festival 2023; Liverpool Indie Award 2024, Cambridge Shorts Award 2024, among several nominations and honorable mention.
- IMDb mini biography by: Monika Koeck