Ada Zielińska is a visual artist and director working across photography, film, and installation. Her practice investigates destruction as a generative force — not as spectacle, but as a controlled process through which tension, beauty, and transformation emerge. Working with both staged and real catastrophic events, she approaches collapse as an aesthetic structure, constructing highly controlled environments.

Recurring throughout her work is the motif of the car — both as cultural symbol and physical material. Vehicles appear as silent witnesses in projects such as Post Tourism, documenting wildfire sites in Australia and California, and as deliberately tested objects in installations and photographic series where cars are burned, melted, submerged, or dismantled. In works such as Panda and the photobook Pyromaniac’s Manual, the automobile becomes a site of endurance, ritual, and controlled volatility.

Elsewhere, automotive materials are dissected and reconfigured into sculptural fragments, performative environments, or narrative devices. In A la carte, developed during the Château de la Haute Borde residency and later exhibited in Paris, car parts are transformed into elements of a staged luxury dining experience, critically examining spectacle, consumption, and desire.

Zielińska’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), Capa Center (Budapest), Photo Brussels Festival among others. Her projects have been featured in publications such as Vogue, Vice, Hyperallergic, and Fisheye Magazine.

Alongside her institutional practice, she develops commercial and brand projects, including direction and installation work for Porsche. She is currently expanding further into luxury campaign and film direction, bringing conceptual rigor and cinematic discipline to high-end commercial storytelling.