Elvira Flamm is a visual artist who studied painting at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and currently lives and works in Berlin. She is an artist who always raises a question about the tension field between nature and culture, our collective spiritual baggage, and the perception of reality, based on experimental and process-led painting techniques.

Her latest practice, “Ikonen ohne Namen” (Icons without names), is an exploration of the anonymity and abstraction imposed upon society by mass media. From her recent methodology—deconstructing media imagery of global crises and mimicking the visual language of digital pixelation—the artist tries to bring these fleeting impressions and anonymous shadows of reality back to our awareness. The emotional distance created by digital media is continuously confronted with her delicate balance between figurative representation and total abstraction. Influenced by her formative 16 years of living in the tropics, she describes her work as a space of dialogue where the flood of information is questioned and the unplanned allows a new dimension to emerge. Her work is rooted in a journey back to the essential and universal core of life, merging conceptual exploration within the form of varied, alchemical mediums.

Flamm’s career is marked by extensive international recognition. She has been invited to exhibitions and collaborations at prominent venues including Lite-Haus Galerie and Chromart Project Space in Berlin, the Centro Culturale di Milano and Musèo Arte e Scienza in Milan, Galleria Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, as well as major art spaces in Florence, Venice, London, and Barcelona.

Education & Training

1998–2014

Sustained artistic practice and permanent residence in Suriname

1993–1994

Artistic residency and research in tropical Suriname

1989–1992

Study of Painting, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Exhibition & Projects (Selection)

2026

Stillness, Galleria Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Veils of Silence, Spazio San Vidal, Venice, Italy

2025

Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Solo exhibition)

ArteMida Expo, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy

God is Women, Borgo Pio Art Gallery, Rome, Italy

Women / June Group Show / Year End, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany

A Change Of Time, Spazio 57, Naples, Italy

Freedom and Beauty, Hub/Art, Barcelona, Spain

2024

Be the Change II, Spazio Arte Tolomeo, Milan, Italy

Home, Chromart Art Space, Berlin, Germany

Echoes of Now, Galleria la Pigna (Rome Art Week), Rome, Italy

DreamArs, Musèo Arte e Scienza, Milan, Italy

2023

Café Tasso, Berlin, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Pop Up-Exhibition 5, The Ballery, Berlin, Germany

Voices, Chromart Project Space, Berlin, Germany

Itinerari Artistiche, Galleria Merlino + Galleria Mentana, Florence, Italy

V Biennale Internationale D'Arte Contemporanea Della Versilia, Villa Gori, Tuscany, Italy

On Tour London, Crypt Gallery, London, UK

Vivid / Coloricious / Year End, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2022

Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Secrets of the Forest, Chromart Project Space, Berlin, Germany

2021

Small Works / Crazy Colors, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany