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About


Educated at Blanquerna-URL School of Communication in Barcelona, she attended film school courses at NYFA Los Angeles and ECAM in Madrid. Her work has been showcased at MoMA PS 1 as part of the NY Art Book Fair, European Culture Congress, Sprint in Milan or the Center for Creative Communications (CCC) in Japan, to name a few.


Gallen in her studio photographed by Suffo Moncloa.


Excelling for her self-initiated oracular projects and deeply 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. Gallen was a judge to prestigious ADG Laus Awards and a professor at (IED) Istituto Europeo di Design Fashion Communication Masters. She has edited several artists’ books and co-curated multi-channel video-art installation Girls! Why did you decide to start a band? at MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castille & Leon in 2016, reflecting on gender bias within the music industry. Her background in production design includes Spanish-French documentary feature Oscuro y Lucientes (Tourmalet Films, RTVE, Marmita Films) and award-winning horror short Disco Inferno, both known for their sleek aesthetics. Clients range from Universal Music Group, CANADA, Reebok, CAMPERLAB, Meliá Hotels International to 080 Barcelona Fashion week.   
         
She is a screenwriter-director and has directed commercials and music videos. Gallen has lectured at cultural centers La Casa Encendida, Fundación Mapfre or CentroCentro in Madrid. Most recently, she expanded her background as an editor at leading GenZ and Millennial platform, Freeda, with a focus on diversity. But her writing is best known for her first non-fiction book, El Diablo es una mujer (Lunwerg, 2021), that restores the myth of the femme fatale.

Her methodology derives from a spectrum of disciplinary artistic fields and her body of work reflects her commitment to contribute to a though-provoking creative landscape and to the broader discourse on filmic gender representation, opening avenues for rethinking established paradigms. She’s currently developing a doc-series with CDMX-based production company Anónima Media, led by actress and producer Eréndira Ibarra (Sense8, Matrix Revolutions), after optioning the rights to her book, and working on several specs, including historical fiction and supernatural horror. ︎︎︎ Variety.com


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
Sacred Geometry (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

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.

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

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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EL DIABLO ES UNA MUJER

ISBN 978-84-18820-11-3 | Hardcover, 200 pg | Illustrated by Sara Herranz


︎Published in November 2021 by Lunwerg Editores (Grupo Planeta), El Diablo es una mujer restores the myth of the femme fatale, reexamining Lilith, Judith or Mata-Hari to Hollywood pre-code films like Garbo's silent The Temptress or Barbara Stanwyck's Baby Face to post-punk vampire cult classic The Hunger, 90s neonoir blockbuster Basic Instinct or European’s horrortica’s masterpiece Fascination, under a postfeminist and queer light. 

︎ Buy | ︎ eldiario.es, Deforme SemanalKinotico



GOYA’S SKULL


︎As production designer of French-Spanish documentary feature ‘Oscuro y Lucientes’ (2018), produced by Televisión Española (TVE), Tourmalet Films and Marmita Films, I designed a sharp overall aesthetic, period and contemporary sets and micromanaged every indoor and outdoor scene. This detectivesque film with a dose of dark humor follows whatever happened to painting legend, Francisco de Goya, after his death in the French exile. Where did Goya's head go?

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DISCO INFERNO



︎As production designer of award-winning horror film DISCO INFERNO (2015) starring Aitana Sanchez-Gijón and Ana Rujas, I was impelled to design a personal fantasy: an all-female satanist universe. Written by Nacho Vigalondo & Alice Waddington, the film toured over 60 international film festivals.


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