Elen Alien

For me, constantly moving between countries, not verbal, but the visual language has become an actual form of communication. My art is about our inner processes, often mirroring in the outer world. Being born in a multicultural environment, I consider myself a citizen of the world. I combine elements of different times and cultural communities to show the absence of the need for separation, labeling. After all, we form all this together, in co-existence.


Nature with its processes has become both my source of inspiration and the most suitable material for my works. I am interested in its symbolic properties, intertextuality, transformative qualities, energy, and mood. I unite opposites, such as the tenderness of flowers and the hardness of epoxy resin, thereby revealing the ambivalence of being. I tear objects out of their natural cycle, idealizing them, transforming the finite into a semblance of the infinite.

My work focuses on our notion and perception of time. I celebrate the beauty of imperfection because every flaw is a trace of the inexorable elusiveness of time, evidence of experiential involvement, and, thus, an organ of self-identification. That’s why the contingency of the process and the errors resulting from the...

1997-2007 - Art School #2, Novokuznetsk, Russia

2007-2013 - Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Art, Russia

2021 - 2022 + Art, Architecture and Visual Culture in Sweden, Stockholm University

2021 - 2022 - Project Konst, Konstskola in Stockholm, Folkuniversitetet

2023 – “Objects of care” group show, Backhaus Project, Berlin
2023 – “Kobe 6” group show, Mela Huset, Oslo
2023 – “Borderless” group show, Verse Gallery, Oslo
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Brännkyrka church, Stockholm
2022 – Summer show, Gallery M35, Oslo
2022 – varutstallning 2022, Gallery K45, Stockholm
2022 – “Mono no aware” solo show, Gallery K45, Stockholm
2022 – Spring salon, Nata Watts Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 – “Nymph”, Monday studio, Copenhagen
2021 – ”Kvinnliga Linjer”, Park, Stockholm
2021 – ”Nordic Art”, Copenhagen 2021 – “The Earth. Version
2021. What was next?”, Darwin Museum, Moscow
2021 – “Art dialogue”, [format] gallery, Moscow
2018 – Next Station Sokol, Moscow
2012 – “OK. WATCH!”, Nina Romanova, Novosibirsk