About Elena Yuzefovich
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Education
2001 - 2007
Moscow State Stroganov University of Industrial and Applied Arts
Awards
2018
Finalist of Internation Competition of Architectoral Drawing
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Event: Matite in Viaggio
Dates: 31 Oct 2025 - 16 Nov 2025
The exhibition's mission is to promote travel culture and the practice of capturing experiences through the medium of drawings and text.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO – CARNETS, DISEGNI, PAROLE
Dates: 20 Oct 2023 - 5 Nov 2023
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of travel and the art of documenting the experience through drawings and words.
Event: Matite in Viaggio
Dates: 20 Oct 2022 - 6 Nov 2022
An exhibition dedicated to the art of documenting travel through drawings and narrative.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO – CARNETS, DISEGNI, PAROLE
Dates: 15 Oct 2021 - 31 Oct 2021
An international exhibition dedicated to the art of documenting travel through drawings and narrative.
Event: Spain through the Eyes of a Traveling Artist
Dates: 11 Nov 2020 - 21 Dec 2020
The exhibition was dedicated to the sketches of the places a visited during my travels in Spain. Also, being a long-time fan of Flamenco I like to draw performers in motion at their shows. These works formed the other part of the exhibition.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO – CARNETS, DISEGNI, PAROLE
Dates: 16 Oct 2020 - 1 Nov 2020
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
One of my paintings was selected as the official image of the exhibition for this year.
Event: "La Maja Desnuda" or a complex life of seductive Spanish women
Dates: 12 Dec 2019 - 22 Dec 2019
The exhibition was dedicated to Madrid and its inhabitants, their lives, relationships and customs.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO
Dates: 18 Oct 2019 - 3 Nov 2019
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Event: DIARI DI VIAGGIO FESTIVAL
Dates: 10 May 2019 - 12 May 2019
The Travel Diaries Festival is an exhibition featuring artists among the most followed in the world, and aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Event: Festival Rendez-Vous du carnet de Voyage
Dates: 16 Nov 2018 - 18 Nov 2018
For three days, 100 French and foreign carnettists come to exhibit their travel diaries and meet the public. From watercolors to comics, from traditional notebooks to digital and sound notebooks, all styles are represented, making the Rendez-vous du carnet de Voyage the biggest event of its kind and a unique moment of discovery and sharing.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO
Dates: 5 Oct 2018 - 21 Oct 2018
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Event: Sketching while traveling. Spain
Dates: 8 Feb 2018 - 2 Oct 2018
The exhibition featured painting and drawings that I made during my trips to Spain.
Event: Italy: Travel Sketches
Dates: 8 Feb 2018 - 2 Oct 2018
The exhibition featured painting and drawings that I made during my trips to Italy.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO
Dates: 6 Oct 2017 - 22 Oct 2017
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Event: Festival du carnet de voyage
Dates: 9 Jun 2017 - 11 Jun 2017
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Event: Colors of Venice
Dates: 5 Dec 2016 - 12 May 2017
The exhibition featured painting and drawings that I made during my trip to Venice in 2016.
Event: MATITE IN VIAGGIO
Dates: 30 Sep 2016 - 16 Oct 2016
The exhibition aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.
Biography
I find inspiration in the textures and atmosphere of the urban world — old boats, rusty trains, industrial structures, and the lively energy of city streets. There is something endlessly compelling about weathered surfaces and the character that comes with age. Oil pastel is my medium of choice for this kind of work: it is perfect for building up rich texture, intense colour, and a sense of material weight.
For cityscapes and travel sketches, I also work in watercolour, which captures light and atmosphere in a way no other medium does. When drawing people in motion — flamenco performers, figures in the street — I reach for ink.
I love working on location, especially while travelling, and favour mediums that are easy to use outside. Oil pastel and watercolour are ideal companions for plein air work.
All of my work is painted on location, directly in front of the subject — in real light and open air, whether on the streets of a European city or beside the weathered hulls of old boats.
Exhibitions
Matite in Viaggio — Centro Culturale Candiani / Fondazione Forte Marghera, Mestre-Venice, Italy (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) — in 2020, one of my paintings was selected as the official image of the exhibitionDiari di Viaggio Festival — Palazzo della Racchetta, Ferrara, Italy (2019)
Festival Rendez-Vous du Carnet de Voyage — Clermont-Ferrand, France (2018)
Sketching while Traveling. Spain — "Adelante", St. Petersburg (2018)
Italy: Travel Sketches — "Italica", St. Petersburg (2018)
Festival du Carnet de Voyage — Carcassonne, France (2017)
Colors of Venice — Flamenqueria, Moscow (2016–2017)
Spain through the Eyes of a Traveling Artist — Flamenqueria, Moscow (2020)
"La Maja Desnuda" — Gallery MINIMA, Moscow (2019)
I have also participated in several group exhibitions and have had four solo exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
