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.
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 for screen adaptation. Gallén’s film scripts—spanning from period folk horror to historical biopic—have earned recognition from L’Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival, CIMA Pitch, Terror Molins Horror Film Festival, or The Black List, where her spec GARBO scored an 8. Every other moon, she writes essay, poetry, contributing articles and edits independent artists’ books, now under The Arch.
Hailed in her early 20s as one of Spain’s high-profile creatives, starting her own fashion–art label in 2007, which she later balanced with comissions as an artist and creative director, Gallen debuted internationally in 2011 with her solo artshow Kyrie Eleison in Aix-en-Provence. Later cross-media works were shown at Longing for Tesla in BWA Wrocław Gallery as part of the European Culture Congress or Contemporary Art Museum of Castille & Leon (MUSAC). She was a judge to ADG Laus Awards and a professor at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). She then entered cinema as production designer for award-winning Disco Inferno and Goya-nominated Oscuro y Lucientes (Tourmalet Films, RTVE, France Télévisions), both celebrated for their strong aesthetics, before moving into writing and filmmaking.
Gallen’s practice examines narratives through screenwriting, design, film, installation and other media. With a distinctive visual language, symbolism and conceptual rigor, she transcends storytelling, conjuring history, personal and cultural memory and engages in dialogues on representation within arts. Rooted in a spectrum of disciplinary artistic fields, her corpus of work has sustained a commitment to contribute to a thought-provoking creative landscape.