ELENA
ŠTROK
A storyteller’s life is
an excitement indeed:
All tales of unknown
I hope once to read
UPCOMING
2026
Rijksakademie (NL)
Tech Fellow | Print workshop
artist residency
Spring 2026
Gallery VN (CRO)
Baby Universe
Solo show
ELENA
A storyteller’s life is
an excitement indeed:
All tales of unknown
I hope once to read
2026
Rijksakademie (NL)
Tech Fellow | Print workshop
artist residency
Spring 2026
Gallery VN (CRO)
Baby Universe
Solo show
Elena is an intermedia artist and designer from Croatia. The basis of her artistic practice is experience- and image-making, be it on paper, screen or stage. From printmaking to scenography and light design; from performance to writing, each work brings a challenge of creating specific hybrid methods that enable each respective piece to become alive.
The thread that goes through all of her work is powered by an urge to create a liminal space in which emotions and sensations become almost material: a space where the idea of ‘human’ links closer to the idea of ‘nature’ and where borders between ideas are just a playful illusion. In this space, where we are simply hallucinating each other’s existence, anything is possible if you are conscious of that thought.
So far, Elena has exhibited or performed in various places in Europe, including MSU and HDLU in Zagreb (HR), Dutch National Opera and H*art Museum in Amsterdam (NL) and OKNa Gallery in Porto (PT).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
THE BURA SUITE
↳Gallery Shira, Zagreb, CRO, 2025
↳DeTunnel Nijverheid, Utrecht, NL, 2025
↳Gallery Super Klet, Zagreb, CRO, 2025
HEALING WATER BOOK
Garaža Kamba, Zagreb, CRO, 2022
BABY UNIVERSE
Prostor, Split, CRO, 2021
Gallery SC, Zagreb, CRO, 2021
ARTEFACTS OF COMMUNICATION
Gallery R3a, Zagreb, CRO, 2018
AGALAB AiR
printmaking artist residency
AGALAB, Amsterdam, NL, 2025
B.BASE FESTIVAL 2025
performance and group exhibition
4bid gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2025
LIGHT OBSERVATORY #7
artist residency
Zeeland, NL, 2025
10 AND BEYOND
group exhibition
De Liceiras, Porto, PT, 2024
NO ONE EVER TOLD ME WE SHOULD HAVE
ALREADY BEEN HERE
light and costume design for a short opera
OFF festival, National Opera Amsterdam, 2024
WELCOME (TO THE HOUSE OF THE RULER)
scenography and lights for a performance
ADE festival, H*ART museum Amsterdam, 2023
I FELL ASLEEP ON MINUTE SIX
scenography and lights for a performance
↳OFF festival, National Opera Amsterdam, 2023
↳Synergy festival, Amsterdam 2023
I HUMAN CARE IF YOU CRY
performance and scenography
ADE festival, H*ART museum Amsterdam, 2023
36. SALON MLADIH
HDLU, Zagreb, CRO, 2022
COLLECTIVE CARE
OKNa, Porto, PT, 2021
CULTUREHUB CROATIA: REFRESH+
author and leader of workshop TTEXPNo.1.2, Split, CRO, 2021
SUMMER LAB: TREES IN THE CITY
educational art project as part of ACT Europe network, organized by Bunker assiciation, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021
ZENIT 21/21
FLU Beograd, Belgrade, SRB, 2021
MOGUĆNOSTI ZA '21
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, CRO, 2021
OPEN STUDIO: SOFT REFLECTION OF A TENDER NONSENSE DANCE
De Liceiras 18, Porto, PT, 2020
DRAVA ART BIENNALE ‘19
↳Gallery Osijek, CRO, 2020
↳Gallery Koprivnica, CRO, 2019
↳Gallery Shira, Zagreb, CRO, 2025
↳DeTunnel Nijverheid, Utrecht, NL, 2025
↳Gallery Super Klet, Zagreb, CRO, 2025
HEALING WATER BOOK
Garaža Kamba, Zagreb, CRO, 2022
BABY UNIVERSE
Prostor, Split, CRO, 2021
Gallery SC, Zagreb, CRO, 2021
ARTEFACTS OF COMMUNICATION
Gallery R3a, Zagreb, CRO, 2018
SELECTED PROJECTS
AGALAB AiR
printmaking artist residency
AGALAB, Amsterdam, NL, 2025
B.BASE FESTIVAL 2025
performance and group exhibition
4bid gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2025
LIGHT OBSERVATORY #7
artist residency
Zeeland, NL, 2025
10 AND BEYOND
group exhibition
De Liceiras, Porto, PT, 2024
NO ONE EVER TOLD ME WE SHOULD HAVE
ALREADY BEEN HERE
light and costume design for a short opera
OFF festival, National Opera Amsterdam, 2024
WELCOME (TO THE HOUSE OF THE RULER)
scenography and lights for a performance
ADE festival, H*ART museum Amsterdam, 2023
I FELL ASLEEP ON MINUTE SIX
scenography and lights for a performance
↳OFF festival, National Opera Amsterdam, 2023
↳Synergy festival, Amsterdam 2023
I HUMAN CARE IF YOU CRY
performance and scenography
ADE festival, H*ART museum Amsterdam, 2023
36. SALON MLADIH
HDLU, Zagreb, CRO, 2022
COLLECTIVE CARE
OKNa, Porto, PT, 2021
CULTUREHUB CROATIA: REFRESH+
author and leader of workshop TTEXPNo.1.2, Split, CRO, 2021
SUMMER LAB: TREES IN THE CITY
educational art project as part of ACT Europe network, organized by Bunker assiciation, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021
ZENIT 21/21
FLU Beograd, Belgrade, SRB, 2021
MOGUĆNOSTI ZA '21
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, CRO, 2021
OPEN STUDIO: SOFT REFLECTION OF A TENDER NONSENSE DANCE
De Liceiras 18, Porto, PT, 2020
DRAVA ART BIENNALE ‘19
↳Gallery Osijek, CRO, 2020
↳Gallery Koprivnica, CRO, 2019
PARADOX STUDENT BIENNALE: FUTURE TRADITIONS
author and leader of workshop TTEXPNo.1, Riga, Latvia, 2019
PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP SOFIJA
printmaking residency, Bogdanci, North Macedonia, 2018
CIRCUS AS A WAY OF LIFE
international contemporary circus project, as part of the project performances in Croatia, Serbia and Greece, 2014
EDUCATION
SANDBERG INSTITUTE
Re:Master Opera, class of Sjaron Minailo, 2022-2024
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ZAGREB
Printmaking, class of Mirjana Vodopija,
MA (Summa cum laude), 2020-2021
BA (Magna cum laude), 2015-2019
DE LICEIRAS 18
cultural platform for artistic residencies, Porto, Portugal, Erasmus+ internship, 2019/2020
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS PRAGUE
Intermedia, class of Pavla Sceranková
and Dušan Zahoransky,
Erasmus+ exchange, 2019
MUSIC SCHOOL VARAŽDIN
classical guitarist, class of Marko Žerjav, 2008-2015