Elena Kristofor (b. 1983, Odesa, Ukraine) is a Vienna-based visual artist working with photography, installation, and site-specific interventions. With a background in architecture and photography, she explores the experience of space and the boundaries between two- and three-dimensionality. Her practice reflects on the confrontation between steppe and forest landscapes and addresses themes of foreignness, threat, displacement, and identity.
Kristofor studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She combines photography, drawing, and sculptural elements to articulate deeply personal reflections on perception and space.
Selected exhibitions include Wilderness Alliances, the Klima Biennale, Vienna (2024); Shaping the Future – Now!, the Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing, Guangzhou (2023); In Translation – The Contexts of Nature, the Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen (2022); With View to the Sea, the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa (2019); Fashion Moments. Female Photographers in Focus, the Landesgalerie Linz (2019); The Censored Exhibition, Photo City, Copenhagen (2018); and Only Human, the Austrian Cultural Forum London (2017).