Elena Bria was born in 1992 in Chisinau. She graduated in 2011 from the Igor Vieru Fine Arts High School in Chisinau and then the Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, where she studied between 2012 and 2018. She had solo shows in Chisinau and Bucharest and participated in collective exhibitions in the USA, Russia, Great Britain and Italy.

She is a contemporary artist, but also an artist of the present and in a certain way, a surprise. Looking at her works you may ask yourself: is this contemporary art? because Elena Bria seems to be speaking to us from the past. Her style, strongly marked by the Saint Petersburg school, is boldly, almost defiantly preserved in patterns that already seemed abandoned. Elena Bria does not believe in ambiguous representations. She doesn't "leave us be" in front of her work. It does not challenge us to have or invent emotions and understandings that we cannot support or prove.

Elena Bria is clear, explicit, coherent. Her subjects and technique free us from the effort of inventing shapes, colors and, above all, meanings in our minds. They are all there, in every work, waiting and welcoming us familiarly, rested. In her case, the famous question "what did the artist mean?" becomes useless. As a viewer, you know what Elena Bria meant, because the artist leaves no room for doubt. Her portraits are alive, they are present, they join us in the exercise of contemplation. And the objects in the still life works provoke us to moments of meditation. Her originality does not lie in the invention of concepts or techniques, but in the current, contemporary way in which she sits in the old themes and methods, continuing a long tradition in a contemporary key.