Elena was born in 1986 in the family of a graphic designer. In 2009, she received a master's degree in cartography and geographical map design, and in 2013, she received her second higher education at Lomonosov Moscow State University (with a degree in Strategic Management).
In 2019, she retired from her cartography business to fully pursue her career in art. The transition to painting did not become a complete break with the past for Elena, but rather a transformation of her perception of reality.
.....The cartographer transfers a three-dimensional image of the surface of the planet Earth (and other objects of the Solar System) onto a plane. The artist does the same thing - he transfers three-dimensional objects from the real or fictional world onto a plane. At the same time, cartographic works are protected by copyright along with works of painting, sculpture, graphics and design. Therefore, during the training, attention was equally paid to both exact sciences, such as mathematical cartography, physics, geodesy, optics (the nature of light and color), etc., and sciences responsible for the artistic value of a cartographic work. Drawing, painting and composition, design and coloristics, methods of shadow plastic image, art history, etc. were studied.
When creating cartographic works, transparent paints such as watercolor and colored ink are mainly used (although there are also samples made with oil paints or mosaics). A limited set of colors is used to create a harmonious image. The desired color in the work is achieved not by mechanically mixing different paints, but by applying the method of lessening - that is, sequentially applying one transparent paint to another. Now, as a painter, Elena uses this deep experience of working with color, structure and space, knowledge in the field of optical color mixing. At the same time, oil paints became the main material of the work, due to which certain optical effects are achieved.
Many years of experience in cartography and the design of geographical maps have taught Elena to see the structure, analyze the physical space and accurately fix its coordinates. Each line on the map was the result of a calculation, each color zone was a logical categorization. Now, when working with painting, the rigid logic of lines and patterns inherited from cartography can be disrupted, softened, or transformed by the dynamic, fluid language of paint. The paintings become peculiar emotional landscapes, offering the viewer not just to look at the place, but to feel it. It is a perfect synthesis: precision, which gives form, and painting, which breathes life and feeling into this form.
Exhibitions& Auctions
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.