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Ada Mukhína
She/her

Nomadic artist and theatre-maker

Ada Mukhína (born 1988 in St.Petersburg / lives in Berlin) is a nomadic artist, theatre director, writer, interdisciplinary researcher and performer. She creates bold political, investigative and participatory theatre performances across genres and borders. With humour and lightness of touch, she questions the existing systems and investigates distribution of resources, risks and power. She holds a Law Diploma with distinction and two Master degrees in Performing Arts from Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy and London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her recent theatre performance have been presented i.a. at the Berliner Festspiele, the Deutsches Theater and Sophiensaele in Berlin, at the Camden People’s Theatre in London, Toplocentrala in Sofia, Frascati in Amsterdam. She was awarded Fellowships from the Berlin Academy of Arts, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (Georgetown University) and Institute français x Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Starting fall 2025, Ada Mukhina is a PhD candidate at the inter-, trans- and nondisciplinary Institute for Open Arts, Mozarteum University (Salzburg, Austria). 

A group of people outside at a festival with large puppets.
Essay

Taking Care, Taking Risks

17 September 2025

Ada Mukhina sits down with global artists and theatremakers—Kiyo Gutiérrez from Mexico, Teddy Mangawa from Zimbabwe, Dijana Milošević from Serbia, and Trà Nguyễn from Vietnam—to discuss their strategies for incorporating both care and risk in performance. 

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