Ada ACKERMAN

Ada Ackerman works as a Permanent Researcher at THALIM/CNRS (French National Research Center). An art historian, she has published Eisenstein et Daumier, des affinités électives (2013) and The Endless Library of Sergei Eisenstein (2019), Les images à l'épreuve des machines (2025). She focuses on the relations between cinema and painting, on cultural exchanges between Soviet Union, Europe and United States and on intricacies between human and non-human agencies. She has curated several shows and edited their catalogues: Golem! Avatars of a clay legend (2017, Paris, Jewish Art and History Museum); The Ecstatic Eye: Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of arts ( 2019, Centre Pompidou-Metz), Mirabil-IA (2024, Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains), The World through AI (2025, Jeu de Paume, Paris)