Elena Victoria Pastor Suárez
1982* Caracas, Venezuela
lives and works in Hamburg, Germany
Grants & More
2024 Project accepted -not selected- for Research projects as part of the Museum of the Commons program Climate de LInternationale Museum Reina Sofía Madrid.
2023 Selected at Performance Studies International Conference PSi#28 at Johanesburg.
Selected to showcase artwork in the National Gallery of Arts in Venezuela in the Proyecto Creadoras curated by Lorena Gonzales Inneco at with support of Banco de Desarrollo de
America Latina y el Caribe CAF, Volante Studio and GBG Arts at Caracas.
2022 First price in Video art at Biennial International de Arte de la ULA, Mérida.
2021 Studio Grant Künster_innenhaus Vorwerk-Stift. Hamburg.
Working grant for visual arts of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 2021.
2019 Part of the art collection of the Labin family.
2017 Part of the art collection of Carolina Herrera Pacannins.
2015 Artwork on Silent Action with Annie Leibovitz at The Venezuelan American Endowments of the Arts - VAEA, Lincoln Center, New York.
Photo España Festival together with CAF presented Elemento Latente, collective exhibition at Servicio Social de Comercio Sao Paulo and Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía Almeria.
2014 Selected for Discoveries, a collective exhibition of Latin American photographers that would be exhibited at Casa de América at the Photo España Festival Madrid.
Portfolio review in Caracas and Sao Paulo, selected for exhibition at Photo España Festival.
Jóven Octubre. Exhibition of young artists at Jesus Soto Museum, Ciudad Bolivar.
Solo exhibition
2023
Allegro Verde. Photography, installation and object. Supported by BKM Hamburg presented in Venezuela at La Casa Disiente & Germany at Mikropol e.V. Caracas & Veneruela.
2022
La Venus de Tacarigua. Photography, video and object. Grind&Shine serie, curator collective Cake & Cash at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof KVHBH Vitrinen Gleich 2&3. Hamburg.
2018
On Bouyance and flotation. Photography, installation, sound and object. Galerie 21 Vorwerk-Stift Künstler_innen Haus. Hamburg.
Collective exhibition
2024
Pippi, Das Gold und du. Sound performance participation. Project by Martin Muth called Der DAi BEIT! KLUP. MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt. Hamburg.
La Venus de Tacarigua. Performance. Mostra america Latina. Casa Franca Brasil. Rio de Janeiro.
In Search of a New Symbiosis Part II: The Unknown. interactive installation. Wasserschloss Reelkirchen.
Footprint. 15mt frottage at collective exhibition SúnPoíēsis curated by Sabina Oroshi at Kuntshalle Trier.
Inside the whale. Sound piece, imaginary sound landscape. New Museum of Networked Art. The Sound of Anthropocene part 4. Online.
Footprint. 15mt frottage at collective exhibition SúnPoíēsis curated by Sabina Oroshi at Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria in Pula.
In Search of a New Symbiosis Part II: The Unknown. interactive installation in the context of the project Exploring Conscious Territories by Alejandro Nolla Hernandez, Katherine Newton and
Susanne Hartmann at FABRIKculture during ArtBasel Festival. Hégenheim.
Mercurio.Photography at the international collective exhibition Everyone but Caspar with more than 500 artist at Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg.
Apamate. Photo-performance. 7 Seeds communications under trees. Curator Michael Kress. Zou-no-hana Terrace, 8th Yokohama Triennale. Yokohama.
2023
Implantations. Frottage, object, text and sound. Curated by Maya Hayda from Collective Rewilding at Frappant Galerie. Hamburg.
Bühne, Artis Lab Zine für Hajusom e.V. and B.A.L.L. Bundesweites Artist Labor der Labore supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste. Presented at Kampnagel, Hamburg.
Power of water. Installation with sound and video, sound in collab with David Huss. In context of Dass 8 Meeer curated by Giulia Busetti and showed at MS Stubnitz, Hamburg.
Mirilla. Installation. Proyecto Creradoras at National Gallery of Art, Caracas.
In search of a new symbiosis. Conference at PSi Performance International Studies 28 Uhambo. Johanesburg.
2022
La Venus de Tacarigua. Video art. ULA International Art Biennial. First price Video art. Merida-Venezuela.
In search of a new symbiosis. Video mapping performative installation with sound piece and elements of nature. Video mapping, Fabián Villasana. Ausstellung Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst
der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg at Sammlung Falckenberg Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Leaving Paradise. Installation with sound and video mapping. Curated by Giulia Busetti, Between EBB and Flow: interstitial spaces at MundHalle. Hamburg.
Breaking Point, video performance. Muestra Dislocada/Dislocated International Video performance. Goa India.
Composting Performance. Concept elena victoria pastor & Dörte Habrihost, collab Nader Hamzeh, Elena Friedrich and ANna Tautfest. Curated: Dos Pfeil & Katrin Köhler, Work on the Spot in Hinterconti.
Breaking Point. Perfomrnace. Showcase at the venues in Goa, India & Philadelphia, USA.
La Venus de Tacarigua. Photography, video and object. “Grind&Shine” curator collective Cake&Cash at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof KVHBH Vitrinen Gleich 2&3. Hamburg.
Ly-rics on, musica para planchar. Performance. Group exhibition Sexed Power at MOM Gallery, Gängeviertel Hamburg.
2021
ËTTË. Photography, video and installation. Duo exhibition together with Maria Virginia Perez. Gallery 21, Hamburg.
Paraiso Tropical. Performance installation. Supported by the working grant for visual arts of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 2021. Kunsthaus, Hamburg.
ONE. Performance, TRAVERSE Überquerung der Grenzen, curated by Scheune6LOFT, Eifel.
Everything / Nothing. Performance, Festival TRAVERSE part1. Masion Florida Hasselt.
Laboratory of Silence. Working space/rehearsal/exhibition together with Dörthe Habighorst and Felix Mayer. Hinterconti Hamburg.
Lost Flamingo. Performance with music and dance together with Homero Alonso. Festival Selva, Faktor Künstlerhaus Kultursommer Hamburg.
Mar Caribe. Video performance. XV International Festival of Performance Choroni. Venezuela.
2020
Apamate. Photo-performance. Conference Continuo Latido Americano de Performance.
When me and my goat friend find bread. Sound performance participation. Project by Tintin Patrone. Festival of Intangible Arts, Elbphilharmonie. Hamburg.
Abrazo. Photo-performance. Museum of Contemporary Art by Zulia MACZUL. Venezuela.
Breaking Point. Video performance. Performance Kokkenet. Copenhagen.
Concerts
2024
I’m Looking for the Sunset but Can’t See the Horizon. Together with Laure Boer. Hamburg.
RuinsZu. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Hafengkalng. Hamburg.
Gängeviertel Geburstag 15. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Fabrik. Hamburg.
2023
Implantations. Experimental impro. Together with David Walraf. Frappant Galerie. Hamburg.
Atem zum Wind. Experimental music impro: wind instruments, vocals and instruments from communities of Amazonia. Together with Hannes Wienert at Klima Ströme. Hamburg.
El sueño de Chiloé. Experimental impro & poem readding. Together with David Huss & Pedro Torres Verdugo. Galerie 21. Hamburg.
Rum Snake. Experimental music impro. Together with David Huss & Michael Steinhausser at the experimental Festival Blurred Edges. Schrank Galerie. Hamburg.
Misofonías: Allegro Verde. Free experimental improvisation. Together with Adrián Arias Pomontty. La Casa Disiente. Caracas.
2022
No Scape Room. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. M.S. Stubnitz. Hamburg.
High Peak. Organizing and performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput for the Experimental Music Festival Blurred Edges. ZOLLO/PARKS supported by VAHM and MusikFonds. Hamburg.
Artist-in-residence
2024 Art Circle International. Internationales Kunstfestival in St. Wolfgang supported by Wolfgangsee Tourismus. Wolfgangsee, Austria.
2023 Sintropía Gavilán. Directed by Pedro Marrero Fuenmayor. Caracas, Venezuela.
2022 Art Circle 2022 / International Visual Arts Festival. Supported by German Embassy. Brda, Slovenia.
Maison Florida. Exchange of residence with Elke Cuppens. Hasselt, Belgium.
2021 Vorwerk-Stift. Studio and living facilities until the date. Hamburg, Germany.
2018 Arteles Creative Center. Haukijärvi, Finland.
Studies
2022 Contemporary Latin American Art Diploma (DACL) Fundación Sala Mendoza & Universidad Metropolitana. Caracas, Venezuela.
2015 Photography Project Development. Blank Paper School. Prof. Antonio Xoubanova & Fosi Vegue. Madrid, Spain.
2005 Documentary Filmmaking. Observatorio de Cine. Prof. Cristian Pauls & Dario Doria. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2000 - 2005 Journalism major in visual media. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Thesis Prof. curator Ariel Jimenez & film director Carlos Caridad Montero. Caracas, Venezuela.