Ada Mukhína is a nomadic artist, theatre director, author, and performer. She was born in 1988 in St. Petersburg, lives in Berlin, and works internationally. After completing her law degree, she earned her MA in Performing Arts at the St. Petersburg Theatre Academy. As a Chevening Scholar, she completed her second MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has been awarded a German Chancellor Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Berlin Fellowship from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, a Global exchange grant in South Africa from the Federal State of Berlin, and a residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris supported by the Institute français.
Her recent works, including participatory performances about risk in art and artists at risk, Risk Lab, a humorous lecture-performance, How to Sell Yourself To the West, about the Western art market, and performative walk, Exile Promenade, have been presented at the Berliner Festspiele, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Rampe in Stuttgart, at Deutschlandfunk and WDR Radio, at the Camden People’s Theatre in London, at Maison d’artistes et de production Cromot in Paris, and in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics in Washington, DC. The latest collective performance ₦ɵ More! White Money, she co-devised and performed in, produced by Flinn Works and Afra Tafri Creations, was presented in Berlin (Sophiensaele), Groningen (Grand Theater), Arnhem (Theater a/d Rijn) and Amsterdam (Frascati). It was also nominated for nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025.