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elena victoria pastor
b. 1982, Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan/Spanish.
Lives and works in Hamburg.


Solo Exhibitions, Performances.

2026 Mother Plant. Video, microscopic samples from Amazonian nature, text. Dulsart e.V. Hamburg.

2023 Allegro Verde. Photography, installation and object. Supported by BKM Hamburg. La Casa Disiente, Caracas; Mikropol e.V. Hamburg.

2022 La Venus de Tacarigua. Photography, video and object. "Grind&Shine," curator collective Cake&Cash, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (KVHBH), Vitrinen Gleich 2 & 3, Hamburg.

2018 On Buoyancy and Flotation. Photography, installation, sound and object. Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift Künstler_innenhaus, Hamburg.
2018 Borders. Performance.Performance Art Links Stockholm.

2017 Redes. Performance. Gaztapiles Art Festival. Madrid.


Collective Exhibitions and Performances.

2026 The Walking Tree. Sculpture, 3 m aluminium tree with yanchama (Amazonian handmade fabric) and 3D-printed thorns in motorized roots. Origem together with David Cuesta & Margem do Rio at Hinterconti e.V. Hamburg.
2026 Unfolding Knowloges. Installation of printed fabric of video mapping footage made in Amazonas and yanchama handmade fabric with text. Kunsthaus Baurs Park, Hamburg.
2026 Unlearning Humanity. Video performance with audio interview of the director of the Allpahuayo Mishana natural reserve. Fluctoplasma festival, Hamburg.
2026 Flying Rivers. Sound performative installation in collaboration with David Wallraf. Experimental music festival Blurred Edges, Hamburg.
2026 A Love Letter for Amazonas. Video art. ICPNA, curator Marco Herrera, Iquitos.
2026 Blindness. Resonanzes. Kunsthaus Lauenburg.

2025 New Constellations. Video mapping installation with ambient sound piece and video art, duo exhibition with Corinna Guotos.
Kunsthaus Sootbörn, Hamburg.
2025 Water Carries. Multimedia. Exploring Concious Territories. Galerie 21. Hamburg.
2025 In Search of a New Symbiosis Part II: The Unknown. Installation with video mapping and interactive sound. Off The Radar Festival, Hamburg.
2025 Mercurio. Photography. Kunsthaus Sootbörn, Hamburg.

2024 La Venus de Tacarigua. Performance. Mostra América Latina, Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
2024 In Search of a New Symbiosis Part II: The Unknown. Installation with video mapping and interactive sound. Wasserschloss Reelkirchen.
2024 Footprint. 15 m frottage paper installation. SunPoïess, curated by Sabina Oroshi, Kunsthalle Trier; Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Pula.
2024 In Search of a New Symbiosis Part II: The Unknown. Interactive installation with video mapping and interactive sound. FABRIKculture, in the context of ArtBasel, Hegenheim.
2024 Apamate. Photo-performance. 7 Seeds, curator Michael Kress, Zou-no-hana Terrace, 8th Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama.

2023 Implantations. Frottage, object, text and sound. Curated by Maya Hayda (Collective Rewilding), Frappant Galerie, Hamburg.
2023 Bühne. Publication for Hajusom e.V. and B.A.L.L. — Bundesweites Artist Labor der Labore, supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste. Presented at Kampnagel, Hamburg.
2023 Mirilla. Installation. Proyecto Creadoras, National Gallery of Art, Caracas.
2023 In Search of a New Symbiosis. Video mapping performative installation with sound piece and elements of nature. PSi-28 Uhambo, Johannesburg.

2022 La Venus de Tacarigua. Video art. ULA International Art Biennial, first prize, Mérida.
2022 In Search of a New Symbiosis. Video mapping performative installation with sound piece and elements of nature. Arbeitstipendium für bildende Kunst der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
2022 Leaving Paradise. Installation with sound, natural elements and video mapping, curated by Guilia Busetti. »Between Ebb and Flow« Mudhalle, Hamburg.
2022 Breaking Point. Video performance. Muestra Dislocada, curated by Dissident Bodies & Ana Astor Blanco, Goa and Philadelphia.
2022 La Venus de Tacarigua. Photography, video and object. "Grind&Shine," Cake&Cash, KVHBH, Hamburg.

2021 Paraíso Tropical. Performance installation with video mapping and four sound sources. Competition for the Working Grant for Visual Arts, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (awarded) Kunsthaus Hamburg.
2021 ONE. Performance. TRAVERSE — Überquerung der Grenzen, curated by Scheune6LOFT, Eifel.
2021 Everything / Nothing. Performance. TRAVERSE part1. Masion Florida, Hasselt.
2021 Laboratory of Silence. Working space exhibition concept together with Dörthe Habighorst & Felix Mayer. Hinterconti e.V. Hamburg.
2021 Cafe and Küchen, Performance together with her mother. KuBIZ Schule Berne e.V. Hamburg.
2021 Lost Flamingo. Performance with music and dance together with Homero Alonso. Festival Selva, Faktor Kunstlerhaus Kultursommer Hamburg.
2021 Helado. Performance. Karo-Mix by Carlos Rico Hamburg.
2021 ËTTË. Photography, video and installation together with Maria Virginia Perez. Gallery 21. Hamburg.
2021 Mar Caribe. Video performance. XV International Festival of Performance Choroni.


2020 Apamate. Photo-performance. Continuo Latido Americano de Performance, European diaspora, online.
2020 Abrazo. Photo-performance. Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo.
2020 Breaking Point. Video performance. Performance Kokkenet, Copenhagen.

2019 Working Class. Performance. ASPA Contemporary, Madrid.
2019 Jungle woman. Performance. Sommer Fest Krawall im All e.V. Hamburg.
2019 Fábula. Performance together with Fabian Jung. Selva Latin America Festival, Hamburg.
2019 On bouyance and floatation. Photo. La Maison de L'Amerique Latine, Strasbourg.
2019 Borders. Performance. M2M Gallery La Juan, Madrid.

2018 On buoyance and flotation. Mixmedia: photography, video and installation. Gallery 21, Hamburg.
2018 History will be kind to me so I intent to perform it. Performance Art Links Stockholm.
2018 Giving life to flowers. Open Studios. Arteles Creative Centre at Haukijärvi, Finland.
2018 Borders. Performance. M2M, La Juan Gallery, Madrid.
2018 Asi fue: transito en la Ciudad de desabastecimiento. Photography. Wow Festival, Ukraine.
2018 Redes. Performance. Sommer Fest. VorwerkStift, Hamburg.

2017 Inside the whale. Installation.Duo exhibition with Ahinoa Rubio Cuadrado. Rizoma Gallery. Madrid.
2017 Home vol 2.0. Installation. Moxinifadas de Gaspar. La Ingobernable. Madrid.
2017 Chrysalis. Photography. Rizoma Gallery. Mercado de Vallehermoso, Madrid.
2017 Home. Installation. Miramientos de ida y vuelta,. MOM Gallery, Gängevietel. Hamburg.

2016 Chrysalis. Multimedia. Galerie 21. Hamburg.

2015 Herencias. Photography. Elemento Latente, Trasltlántica Photo España. Museum Casa de América, Madrid.

2015 Herencias. Photography. Venezuelan American Endowments of the Arts (VAEA), Lincoln Center, New York.
2015 Anitya. Photography Arles Voix Off Festival, Racontes de la Photographie, Arles.

2014 Herencias. Photography. Salón Joven, Museum Jesús Otero. Ciudad Bolívar.
2014 Asi fue: transito en la Ciudad de desabastecimiento. Photography. Alliance Française, Caracas.

2013 Photography Portafolio Review Photo España, CIEF. Caracas.


Concerts, vocalist, music performances.

2026 Erdstall. Improvisation together with Sophia Leintenmayer. Erdstall, Vienna.
2026 Waldbühne. Female choir. Kampnagel Sommerfest, Hamburg.
2026 Riss Concert series. Performing as Magnolia solo. Immanuelkirche, Hamburg.
2026 Experimental Montag. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Madame Claude, Berlin.

2025 Labverde. Improvisation together with Yasmin Rai. Adolpho Ducke Reserve. Manaus.
2025 OOO Performance by Carlos Andrés Rico. Festival M, TONALi Saal, Hamburg.
2025 Fusion Festival. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Ameise, Hamburg.
2025 Blurred Edges Festival. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Ameise, Hamburg.
2025 Waldbühne. Female choir. Kampnagel Sommerfest, Hamburg.
2025 Gruppe Kadaver. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Gängeviertel, Hamburg.

2024 Der Bäume, der im Wald fällt. SúnPoíēsis: From Ego- to Eco-Centrism through Art. Solo. Kunsthalle Trier.
2024 I'm Looking for the Sunset but Can't See the Horizon. Together with Laure Boer. Hamburg.
2024 Ruins Zu. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Hafenklang, Hamburg.
2024 Gängeviertel Geburstag. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Gängeviertel, Hamburg.
2024 Jupi Bar. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. Fabrik, Hamburg
2024 Exploring Conscious Territories. Improvisation together with Katherine Newton. Hégenheim.

2023 Implantations. Experimental improv together with David Walraf. Frappant Galerie, Hamburg.
2023 Atem zum Wind. Improvisation together with Hannes Wienert. Klima Ströme, Hamburg.
2023 Rum Snake. Improvisation together with David Huss & Michael Steinhausser. Festival Blurred Edges, Schrank Galerie, Hamburg.
2023 Misofonías: Allegro Verde. Improvisation together with Adrián Arias Pomontty. La Casa Disiente, Caracas.

2022 No Scape Room. Performing as Magnolia with Maschin Kaput. MS Stubnitz, Hamburg.
2022 McAlbtraum. Sound performance by Tintin Patrone, Hamburg.
2022 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.


2021 Deutsches Reis. Improvisation together with Michael Steinhausser, Kunst und Musik, Veddel.
2021 The Feast. Collective performance with dance and music by Graziele Sena & Morin. Nova Cafe, Kultursommer Hamburg.

2020 When Me and My Goat Friend Find Bread. Sound performance by Tintin Patrone. Festival of Intangible Arts, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg.
Prizes, Scholarships, and Grants.

2026 Collection of the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA), Lima for Love Letter to Amazonas (video art), curated by Marco Herrera.

2025 Travel grant, Behörde für Kultur Hamburg & ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Support for the artist-in-residency Speculative Ecologies at Labverde, Manaus, curated by Lilian Franji.
2025 EU Mobility Program Digital on Stage (MMMAD), at Kibla, Maribor.

2024 Project accepted (not selected), Museum of the Commons research program, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.

2023 Conference Performance Studies International PSi-28, Johannesburg.
2023 Proyecto Creadoras, National Gallery of Arts, Caracas. Curated by Lorena González Inneco.

2022 First Prize, Video Art, Bienal Internacional de Arte de la ULA, Mérida, for La Venus de Tacarigua.
2022 Travel grant, Behörde für Kultur Hamburg. Support for research Allegro Verdeat Santa Cruz de Mapauri, Pemón community of Amazonas.

2021–2026 Studio Grant, Künstler_innenhaus Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg.
2021 Working Grant for Visual Arts, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Presented at Kunsthaus Hamburg and Sammlung Falckenberg (Deichtorhallen Hamburg).

2019 Private Collection Peter Labin and Clemencia Labin.

2017 Private Collection Carolina Herrera Pacanins.

2015 Silent Action with photographer Annie Leibovitz, Venezuelan American Endowments of the Arts (VAEA), Lincoln Center, New York.


Artist-in-Residence.

2025 Speculative Ecologies. Immersive research residency in Amazonia, curated by Lilian Franji. Manaus, Brazil.
2025 Digital on Stage. Mobility program at Kibla, with the support of MMMAD. Maribor, Slovenia.
2025 Correlación Amazónica. Immersive research residency in Amazonia, directed by Marco Herrera. Iquitos, Peru.

2024 Art Circle International. International art festival, 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 the German Embassy. Brda, Slovenia.
2022 Maison Florida. Residence exchange with Elke Cuppens. Hasselt, Belgium.

2021–2026 Vorwerk-Stift. Studio and living facilities. Hamburg, Germany.

2018 Arteles Creative Center. Haukijärvi, Finland.


Studies.

2025 Sound Art Diploma, Tsunami Sound Art. Valparaíso (online).

2024 Seminar XXXV Colonial Ecosystems: Environmental Racism, Extractivism, and Climate Colonialism, Prof. Fabián Villegas. Puerto Rico (online).
2024 Seminar New Ecologies: Decentralizing the Human through Contemporary Practice, Institute of Postnatural Studies, Prof. Gabriel Alonso. Madrid (online).

2022 Contemporary Latin American Art Diploma (DACL), Fundación Sala Mendoza & Universidad Metropolitana. Caracas, Venezuela (online).

2015 Photography Project Development, Blank Paper School, Prof. Antonio Xoubanova & Fosi Vegue. Madrid, Spain.

2005 Documentary Filmmaking, Observatorio de Cine, Prof. Cristian Pauls & Darío Doria. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2000–2005 Journalism, major in visual media, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Thesis with curator Ariel Jiménez and film director Carlos Caridad Montero. Caracas, Venezuela.


Online Catalog, press and other links.

Artishock article 2026

SúnPoíēsis: From Ego- to Eco-Centrism through Art. Catalog. Kunsthalle Trier.

Wynwood Times article 2023

Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof 2022

BKM Hamburg Arbeitstipendien für bilende Kunst 2021


Kunsthaus Nominees Exhibition 2021

Continuo Latido Americano de Performance International Conference 2020

Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia (MACZUL) 2018

Arteles artis-in-residency Catalog 2018

VAEA’s Annual Benefit Gala Honoring Annie Leibovitz 2015

Photo España Festival  2014