Elitsa Velikova was born in Shumen in 1985. In 2005, she was accepted at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, major Painting in the class of Prof. Valentin Kolev and Prof. Liliana Angelova. In 2007 she studied for onesemester at Kunstuniversität, in Linz, Austria, major Painting with Prof. Ursula Hübner, as part of the exchange program for students Erasmus - Socrates. She continues her studies there. She has participated in group exhibitions in Bulgaria and Austria. In 2006 she was awarded  the portrait prize "Marin Ustagenov." In 2009 Linz was the European Capital of Culture and she was actively involved in exhibitions and events, which were part of it.

Lives and works in Linz, Austria.

"Two years ago I began to be interested in the significance and meaning of my own name - what could I express through it... Saying my name several times evoked pictures in my mind that I wanted to express through photography, performance and painting. I started searching in bazaars, visited the shops of old collectors in Austria. I found small objects, which I collected and put on the wall in my studio in Linz. One year later, I had my wall full of paintings, photographs, collages and stamps. Now I present three pictures of my project "Ela” at the exhibition "So Close, So Far" in Sofia.”