Ada Bond at Basel Social Club

Ada Bond (b. 2001) is a London-based artist who employs "cuteness" as a Trojan horse: a seductive aesthetic that smuggles in questions of identity, desire, and self-construction. Her Beetle Mania series literalises reproduction in miniature: locked in coitus against a field of white, the ladybugs offer a kind of intimacy that an open plan office is not supposed to permit. So the office romance becomes a transgression: desire smuggled into managed time, biological life asserting itself in a space designed to suppress it. The erotic, the non-productive, and the creaturely reclaim territory from efficiency by turning the office into a site of desire that produces nothing, optimises nothing.

Ada Bond graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2025, where she was awarded the Stanbury Prize. Recent exhibitions include Briefly Gorgeous at Soho Revue, London (2026); Emblematic Representation at Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Art021, Shanghai (2025); Mara Launch at Vila 31 x Art Explora, Tirana (2025), Radar with Plaster Magazine, London (2025); and Skin Deep at Studio West, London (2023). She was awarded a White Pube Creative Grant in 2026.