Elena Gallen

Gallen in her studio photographed by Suffo Moncloa.

Elena Gallen (1984) is a film director, writer and artist. Graduated at Blanquerna in Media Studies (Barcelona), specialized in film-making at the New York Film Academy (Universal Studios, Hollywood) and in screenwriting at ECAM (Madrid). Her work has been showcased at the European Culture Congress in Wrocław, MoMA PS 1 (Museum of Modern Art of New York) as part of the New York Art Book Fair, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Leon), Estoril FashionArt Festival (Portugal) or The Center for Creative Communications (CCC) in Shizuoka (Japan), among other venues. Along her client's list, you can find production companies CANADA or Universal Music Group, fashion brands like Reebok or Camper, MELIÀ Hotels International, 080 Barcelona Fashion, or artistic institutions such as La Casa Endencida or MUSAC (Contemporary Art Musesum of Castille & Leon)...

For the past decade, Gallen has been working profusely as a creative and art director, designer and curator within the fields of Arts, Film, Fashion and Culture developing artistic and commercial work, often pushing the boundaries between both. A gaining national and international recognition resulted in the artist becoming face and ambassador of fashion brands like Converse or Reebok, among other numerous sponsorships and creative collaborations. For four years, Gallen was a Professor of the Fashion Communication Masters at Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid. Nowadays, though focused on her film career and her side art projects, she finds time to write for gender equality

and Queer culture at FREEDA Media, leader on interaction and impact among national social media for women in Spain in 2019.