Upcoming

March 2024 – Risk Lab (6th episode with a guest artist Azade Shahmiri (Iran / Germany), Performance, Theater Rampe, Stuttgart (Germany).

August 21 – October 7, 2023 – Global exchange stipend of the Federal State of Berlin in South Africa (with support of the African Entertainers and Zinzi Princess Rose Mhlongo).

June 16 – 18, 21 – 25, 2023Exile Promenade, Performative walk, Festival Performing Exiles (curator – Matthias Lillienthal), Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Germany).

From April 28, 2023 How to Sell Yourself to the West, Radio Feature, available online at Deutschlandfunk (Germany).


Ada Mukhína is a nomadic 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 and a Berlin Fellowship from the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin. 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, Staatstheater Mainz, at the Camden People’s Theatre in London, and in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics in Washington, DC.