Elena was born in 1986 to an artist father. In 2009, she received a master's degree in cartography and map design, and in 2013, she earned a second degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University (specializing in Strategic Management).
Elena's path from cartography to painting combines a unique transition: a transformation of the perception and reproduction of reality.
A cartographer transfers a three-dimensional image of the surface of planet Earth (and other objects in the solar system) onto a flat surface. An artist does the same – transfers three-dimensional objects from the real or imaginary world onto a flat surface. When studying cartography, equal attention was paid to the exact sciences, such as mathematical cartography, physics, geodesy, optics (the nature of light and color), and the sciences responsible for the artistic value of a cartographic work. Drawing, painting and composition, design and color, methods of shadow plastic representation, art history, and so on were studied.
Cartography taught Elena to see structure, analyze physical space, and accurately record its coordinates. Every line on the map is the result of a calculation, each color zone a logical categorization. In painting, the rigid logic of lines and patterns inherited from cartography can be disrupted, softened, or transformed by the dynamic, fluid language of paint. Paintings become unique emotional landscapes, inviting the viewer not just to look at a place but to experience it. It is a perfect synthesis: precision that gives form, and painting that breathes life and feeling into that form.
Exhibitions& Auctions
2026 Solo Exhibition "Endless Summer (...and Suddenly Flowers Appeared)" Naprotiv Gallery, Moscow
2026 VLADEY curatorial auction "LOVE", Moscow
2026 Yargallery collective exhibition "To-se", Yaroslavl
2025 IZZI ROOM collective exhibition "In Simple words", St. Petersburg
2025 Moscow Interior and Design Week 2025 Manege, Moscow
2025 VLADEY curated auction "Come on girls" (by March 8), auction "All for 100" July, November "All for 100+", "All for 100" December, Moscow
2024 Arbuzz Gallery "Green Ray", Moscow
2024 New Tretyakov Gallery: exhibition of works by finalists of the All-Russian competition "Russia. Horizons 2024", Moscow
2024 Ars Visio Project Eternal Summer Exhibition, Moscow
2024 Art&Brut Gallery collective exhibition "Flicker", Moscow
2024 Vladey contemporary art auction: curated "Realism" May, "Everything for 100+" May, "Everything for 100" March, Moscow
2023 ELOHOVSKIY GALLERY pre-auction exhibition June, Moscow
2023 VLADEY curatorial auction of contemporary art "Realism" May, "Realism" March, "All for 100" May, "Realism" October, Moscow
2023 Gallery "Here on Taganka" collective exhibition "Wow 2.0", Moscow
2023 MYXA Gallery collective exhibition "Yachting is...", Moscow
2023 Artplay gallery "Apartment S" collective exhibition "Old and new", Moscow
2022 Urbanside Gallery / Zurich Switzerland - Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Artbox.Project Zurich 3.0 Swiss Art Expo / Art Expo Zurich, Switzerland
Finalist of the All-Russian competition "Russia. Horizons 2024" with the support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, Semi-finalist of ARTBOX.PROJECT WORLD 2.0, Zurich, Switzerland, Semi-finalist of ARTBOX.PROJECT Zurich 3.0
Her works are in private collections in Russia, Europe, the USA, Great Britain, and South America. Korea and Australia, as well as in the collection of the Museum of the Faculty of Arts of the Russian State University of Fine Arts.