Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017–2019 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London (Distinction)
2016–2017 MA Art and Visual History, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (Dropped)
2011–2014 BA Art History & Book Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen


Selected Exhibitions

2019

• Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (Upcoming)
  
• Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (Upcoming)
• Statement of Being, Deptford Does Art, London (Upcoming)
• 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
• Docma Award, Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt

Selected Working Experience

• 2015–2017 Bespoke Framing Consultant, Boesner, Berlin
  
• 2013–2014 Gallery Assistant, Art Society, Erlangen
• 2014 Unit Still Photographer, Séance, dir. by Johannes Franke
• 2014 Internship, Kunstpalais, Erlangen

Selected Awards and Nominations

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

Selected Publications

• On Death, Kris Graves Projects, 2019 (Upcoming)
• 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 & 2019
  
• 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
  
• Unlocked, Atopos, Ed. Vassilis Zidianakis, 2015

Selected Online Features

• 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
  
• Stern
  
• art - Das Kunstmagazin
• Academy Now

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