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@elsaestrella
Elsa Estrella (*1997) is an artist and researcher based between Berlin and Madrid. Her work sits at the intersection of visual culture, archival methodology, and cinematic memory. Through assemblage, miniaturazitation, and fragmentation she explores film history and its material residues. This approach allows her to investigate how objecthood, fragmentation and the politics of display can disrupt conventional narrative structures and shape meaning.
Between sculpture, text, and image, her practice entwines the personal with the historiographic, reflecting on cultural and popular memory with a formally austere yet often ironic distance. Attentive to the slippages that occur in the translation from text to image, image to text - and from past to present - she explores how histories are reconstructed and frequently distorted.
She completed her BFA at the Universität der Künste Berlin (2025, Prof. Kathrin Busch and Prof. Gabi Schillig.). She is currently developing an artistic research project in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Marlene Dietrich Archive, to be presented in 2026. Together with Lucía Ugena she is developing a curatorial and research project between Vienna and Berlin, whose first edition will take place in October 2025 in Vienna.
Recent projects include the group exhibition A Trap to Live Within at New Fears Gallery (Berlin, 2025) ; Forgotten Recitals (Berlin); and Along the Archive, Against the Grain at After the Butcher (Berlin, 2024) ; Morgen, Morgen at Domäne Dahlem (Berlin, 2022), Festival Gelatina (Madrid, 2019). She has participated in curatorial projects as PoemRoom (Conde Duque, Madrid), a series of performative readings co-curated with Perla Zúñiga and Mariano Blatt, and she has recently published an article in Ctxt Magazine. In 2020, she developed the research project Small at the Willem Flusser Archiv in collaboration with Dr. Anita Jóri, where she examined Flusser’s relationship to Brazilian concrete poets.
Her drawings and collages have been featured in publications such as Alpha Decay, Blatt y Ríos, and El País, among others.