Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017–2019 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London (Distinction)
2016–2017 MA Art and Visual History, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (Dropped)
2011–2015 BA Art History & Book Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen

Exhibitions

2019

• Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (Upcoming)
  
• Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (Current)
• Statement of Being, Deptford Does Art, London
• Homeland, Revolv Collective, Take Courage Gallery, London
• Homeland, SeeMeOn 29, Sofia Art Week, Sofia
• The AOP Student Awards Exhibition, Wex Photo Video, London
• RCA Show, Royal College of Art, London
  
• In Repeat, Photoeast Fringe, Frameworkshop & Gallery, Ipswich
  
• Ginnel Foto Fest, Ipswich
• Offprint, Tate Modern, London
  
• Hot Sheet, Downstairs at The Department Store, London
• Alarum, Ardesia Projects, Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Tiergarten, Berlin
• Fragmentation, Coningsby Gallery, London
• Intro:spective, Revolv Collective, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London

• New Femininity, Curated by Girls, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam
• Envisioning Other Worlds, Bow Arts, London
• Align, Subject Matter, Online

2018

• RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
  
• European Month of Photography: Emerging Artists, BBA Gallery, Berlin
  
• Rapture, Aeon Gallery, Illinois
  
• Family of No Man, Cosmos Books, Arles
• One Year Revolv, Revolv Collective,  Safe House 1, London
  
• Offprint, Tate Modern, London
• Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London
• Disrupt, Subject Matter, Online

2017

• Trash cans for hearts and people have no soul, Fotofestiwal, Łódź
• Still Lives: Honouring the Dead, Gallery X, Dublin
  
• La peau de l'ours, Galerie Marie Demange, Brussels
  
• MIA Foto Fair, with Luisa Catucci Gallery, Milan
  
• Fotofever, with Luisa Catucci Gallery, Paris
  
• Final Girls Film Festival, Moviemento, Berlin

2016

• Ophelia, Cell63 Gallery, Berlin
• All dreams continue in the beyond, Cell63 Gallery, Berlin
• Unlocked, Atopos CVC, Athens
• Cross the Line, KH5 Gallery, Zurich
• Off Course Art Fair, with Cell63 Gallery, Brussels

2015

• SHVR, Click! Triangle Photo Festival, North Carolina
• There is strong shadow where there is much light, Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo
• Cross the Line, La Cave Showroom Gallery, Paris
• Goth: Dissection and Suture, Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo
• Triskaidekaphobie, Galerie Morgenrot, Berlin

2014

• Rituals, Galerie Morgenrot, Berlin (Solo)
• Reflect: Art is Dead, Cell63 Gallery, Berlin
• Brüche, Jugendzentrum, Bamberg
  
• Docma Award, Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
  

Awards

2019

• Travers Smith CSR Art Programme, Selected
• Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Selected
• Ginnel Foto Award, Winner
• AOP Student Awards, The Association of Photographers, Winner
• Magenta Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, Winner

2018

• European Photography Award, Shortlisted
  
• 100 Heroines, Royal Photographic Society, Nominee
  
  

2017

• London International Creative Competition, Shortlisted
  
• International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention
• The Collector's Apartment, Fotofever, Selected
  
• Photography Grant, Nominee

2014

• Docma Award, Winner
• Fine Art Photography Awards, Winner

Publications (Print)

• British Journal of Photography, Issue 7889, November 2019
  
• HANT – Magazin für Fotografie, Issue 12, “Zeichen der Zeit”, 2019
• On Death, Kris Graves Projects, 2019
• Homeland, Revolv Collective, 2019
• Optika Zine, Issue 2, Ginnel Foto Fest, 2019
• Nook Magazine, Issue 1, 2019
  
• THE OPÉRA, Vol. IV & Vol. VII, Kerber Verlag, Ed. Matthias Straub, 2015 & 2018
  
• Omens, Photobook, Self Published, 2018
  
• Dust, Photobook, Ed. Pamela Dimitrov, Self Published, 2018
  
• Unvael Journal, Issue 2, Ed. Michael Ash Smith, 2018
• Sabat Magazine, Issue 3: The Crone Issue, Ed. Elisabeth Krohn, 2017
  
• Steam Noir: Das Kupferherz, Vol. IV, Guest Artist, Cross Cult, 2015
• Unlocked, Atopos, Ed. Vassilis Zidianakis, 2015

Publications (Online)

• Aint–Bad
• Phroom Magazine
• Der Greif: Guest-Room Emma Bowkett
• Vogue.it
• Phases Magazine
• Yogurt Magazine
• The Royal Photographic Society - 100 Heroines
  
• F-Stop Magazine, Nr. 88
• Source Graduate Review
  
• Royal College of Art
• Don’t Take Pictures
• Stern.de 
  
• Academy Now
• art – Das Kunstmagazin, Akt Now

Experience

2015–2017 Bespoke Framing Consultant, Boesner, Berlin
2013–2014 Gallery Assistant, Art Society, Erlangen
2014 Set Photographer, Séance, dir. by Johannes Franke, Taucha
2014 Museum Intern, Kunstpalais, Erlangen
2013 Gallery Intern, Strychnin Gallery, Berlin

Talks

2019 Guest Speaker, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2015 Guest Speaker, Workshop at the Studio of Felix Mertikat, Ludwigsburg

2013 Guest Speaker, Talk with Dr. Bernhard Stumpfhaus, ABM Salon, Heilbronn

Elena’s work is represented in private and public collections in UK, US, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and France.