Freelance graphic designer, artist and radio host based in Berlin.
Ada primarily operates within the cultural sector. Her work encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including exhibition design, hand-drawn illustrations, web wireframes, typography, branding, posters, and LP/cassette artwork. Ada’s creative process embraces contrasts and blends analog methodologies with digital tools, always guided by an awareness to intersectionality. Her practice is driven by archival research, the aesthetics of bootleg culture, and anthropological phenomena, which inform and deepen her visual language.
Referrals
Acud Macht Neu, Berlinale Talents, Freie Universität Berlin, Grips Theater, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Matters of Activity), Jutojo (u.a. Emily Atef, Sonar Kollektiv), LiMA - Linke Medienakademie, Maxim Gorki Theater, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Workshops, lectures and presentations
2023
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
“Spuren des Widerstands”, Willi-Graf Gymnasium, Berlin (DE)
“La notte che Pinelli”, Hallo:Radio, Hamburg (DE)
“Materiale Resistente”, Hallo:Radio, Hamburg (DE)
“Fluid Archives” @ Open Set Lab, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum (NL)
“La notte che Pinelli”, Hallo:Radio, Hamburg (DE)
“Materiale Resistente”, Hallo:Radio, Hamburg (DE)
“Fluid Archives” @ Open Set Lab, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum (NL)
Previously working at
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (DE)
Jutojo, Berlin (DE)
Acud Macht Neu, Berlin (DE)
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin (DE)
Studio Gretzinger, Berlin (DE)
Jutojo, Berlin (DE)
Acud Macht Neu, Berlin (DE)
Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin (DE)
Studio Gretzinger, Berlin (DE)
Residencies
2017
Dérive residency, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Solo exhibitions
2017
“Heimat”, Film screening, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Group exhibitions
2018
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
“Floating Frames”, Graduation show, Werkwarenhuis, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL)
“Fluid Memory”, Open Set symposium, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum (NL)
Openhaus, November 2017, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Openhaus, October 2017, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Fahrenheit 39 - 7th edition, Artificerie Almagià, Ravenna (IT)
“Outing”, selected for “The One Minutes Series”, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
“Fluid Memory”, Open Set symposium, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum (NL)
Openhaus, November 2017, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Openhaus, October 2017, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin (DE)
Fahrenheit 39 - 7th edition, Artificerie Almagià, Ravenna (IT)
“Outing”, selected for “The One Minutes Series”, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)