Elena Mitzeva was born on 11.06.1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduateed from Art College Tzanko Lavrenov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1994 and and from University for Industrial Design and Art in Linz, Austria in 2004.

She has been involved in various solo and group exhibitions amongst which: group exhibiton, Gallery Gladstone, Plovdiv (1995); Textile Poesie, group exhibiton in Kremsmuenster, Upper Austria (2000);  solo exhibition Alte Welt at Kulturkeller, Linz (2001); Shopping group exhibition, OK-Kulturzentrum, Linz (2001); Public contest, screen printed works for Wagner Jauregg clinic, Linz (2001); Wasserkleid (Waterdress), video installation/projection on silikonobject (2001); Dichte Zeiten, short film (2000); Liebestoeter, a self-made underwear collection as an installation of an accident, with video and posters (2004).

"As an artist Elena Mitzeva periodically changes the media in which she works - film, installation, painting, weaving, print, drawing as well as her themes and concepts - often focusing on communication, the environment, the transient, etc.

Communication brings us closer to each other, but it can also separate us. In general it could mean the lack of communication too or the desire to participate in every occasion by any means. It could be loneliness, a monolog, and it could be connection."