ADA (b. 1987, Kazakhstan) lives and works in Paris, France. 

A graduate of Chelsea College of Art in London, ADA develops a multidisciplinary practice rooted in installation, analog photography, performance, and film direction. Her work navigates the boundaries between architecture, memory, and identity, drawing on scenographic languages and neo-archaeological processes to create spatial environments charged with psychological and emotional resonance. Whether through ephemeral gestures or material transformations, she constructs a poetics of presence—inviting the viewer to inhabit the interstices between disappearance and reappearance, decay and renewal.

Born to a Korean father and Ukrainian mother in Kazakhstan, and living between London and Paris, ADA brings a distinctly introspective and multicultural perspective to questions of identity and belonging. Rather than focusing on cultural or political narratives, her work investigates the fragile boundaries between the real and imagined, presence and disappearance, material and emotional resonance.

Her work has been exhibited across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts (2018), Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), and the Venice Biennale representing Kazakhstan (2015), Universal Expo 2017 Astana, to list a few. She has participated in international residencies and art fairs.