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About


Spanish writer, filmmaker and visual artist, Gallen majored in Media Studies to then attend film school at NYFA Los Angeles. Her work has been shown at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, the European Culture Congress, and Center for Creative Communications in Japan. She has lectured at La Casa Encendida or Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, and more recently, at Decididas summit in Mexico City, alongside voices like playwright Eve Ensler (V), yoga instructor Adriene Mishler and producer Adrienne Becker.

Gallen in her studio photographed by Suffo Moncloa.

Her debut book, El Diablo es una mujer (2021), published by Grupo Planeta, blends film theory and memoir to reclaim the femme fatale myth, and is set to be adapted by Anónima Media, led by actress-producer Eréndira Ibarra (The Matrix Resurrections)︎︎︎ Variety.com. Gallen writes creative non-fiction, poetry and screenplays, and every other moon edits independent artists’ books, now under The Arch Éditions. Gallen’s period folk horror in development, set in rural Europe, has been recognised by L’ALTERNATIVA Barcelona Independent Film Festival, CIMA Pitch 2025 and awarded at TERROR MOLINS Horror Film Festival. Her spec biopic GARBO scored an 8 on The Black List.

Excelling for her projects tied to the arts, culture and fashion industries, a gaining recognition acknowledged Gallen as one of Spain’s high-profile creatives in her early 20s. In 2011 she had her first solo artshow in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 2014, her cross-media project Sacred Geometry was featured at collective exhibiton Longing for Tesla in BWA Wrocław Gallery as part of the European Culture Congress. She went on to co-curate Girls! Why did you decide to start a band? at MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castille & Leon in 2016, a multi-channel video installation reflecting on gender bias within the music industry. Her way into the field of cinema began as production designer of award-winning horror Disco Inferno and Goya-candidate documentary Oscuro y Lucientes (Tourmalet Films, RTVE, Marmita Films, France Télévisions), both celebrated for their sleek aesthetics.

Gallen understands cinema as ritual and writing as excavation, for her work goes beyond storytelling, summoning history, personal experience, and cultural memory. Her methodology derives from a spectrum of disciplinary artistic fields and her corpus of work reflects a commitment to contribute to a thought-provoking creative landscape and a broader discourse on representation.



Exhibitions

2014
Atelier Des Jeunes,
La Fabrica
Madrid, Spain

Atelier Des Jeunes,
La Fresh Gallery
Madrid, Spain

Longing for Tesla,
Design BWA gallery
in the context of
European Culture Congress,
Wrocław, Poland

2013
OffGallery,
JustMad Art Fair
Madrid, Spain

2011
Kyrie Eleison (solo)
Kulte
Aix en Provence, France

2010
Estoril FashionArt Festival
Estoril, Portugal

2009
Sacred Geometry,
Urban Outfitters
Manchester, UK

2007
In An Absolute World,
Sala Offlimits
Madrid, Spain
Lectures &Workshops

DECIDIDAS SUMMIT
Flash talk about my book El Diablo es una mujer as part of the event promoted by Barbara Arrendondo, Olga Segura and Karina Ojeda along extraordinary women like yoga instructor Adriene Mishler, model Cameron Russell, director Alejandra Marquez, producer Adrienne Becker or playwright Eve Ensler.
Four Seasons Hotel, Ciudad de Mexico
2025

POEMS I WILL NEVER RELEASE
Guided visit to Chiara Fumai exhibition
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2022

MARY SHELLEY pre-release screening
organised by Sunset Cinema & Freeda Media
CentroCentro, Madrid
2018

VEIN GIRLS 
IED Visual Communication, Madrid
2017

LIBROS MUTANTES: Perspectivas Mutantes
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2012



Press feat.

2025   CIMA PitchDecididas summit CDMX
2023   VARIETY, Reforma
2021   elDiario.es, EL PAÍSEl Comercio
2017   VEIN
2015   Vanity Fair
2014   Fucking Young
2013   VICETendencias.tv



Artists' Books I edited

Fuego, No. 01: We Want To Believe, 2009
Fuego, No. 02: Great Minds Think Alike, 2010
Fuego, No. 03: Amulets, 2012
Elena Gallen, Sacred Geometry, 2010
Elena Gallen, Moiré Landscapes, 2013
Ruben Brulat, Sharing Paths, 2013
María Fonti, Para Vivir Por Favor, 2016 
Fina Miralles, Sempreviva, 2025 (The Arch)

Curatorial

Girls! Why did you decide to start a band? 
MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary 
Art of Castille & Leon, Spain
2016

Ruben Brulat, Sharing Paths
Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain
2013

Co-editor, FUEGO
Barcelona, Spain
2009-2012



ArtBook Fairs

:ndex Guadalajara Art Book Fair,
Guadalajara, Mexico

Printed Matters,
NY Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1
New York City, USA

Sprint (Salone di editoria
indipendente e d'artista)
Milano, Italy

The Center for Creative
Communications (CCC)
Shizuoka, Japan

Libros Mutantes,
La Casa Encendida
Madrid, Spain




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