Born in 1985, in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2003 Elene entered in Tbilisi’s State Academy of Art where they studied monumental painting. During their studies in Tbilisi, Elene and other students in state academy established art group named LOTT. Lott worked collectively until 2007 and made a collaborative diploma performance Wet Circle. In 2008, Elene left Georgia and continued her studies for the master’s degree in Geneva, school of art and design (HEAD) on the research-based master program Critical Curatorial Cibermedia. Their graduation thesis Modus Vivendi was about the collaborative working process in the history of art and the modern everyday life.
In 2012, Elene started their studies in Cinema in the same school HEAD. In 2014 they gra- duated with the short film Gospel of Anasyrma with written thesis about Jean Genet and the gesture as resistance in cinema. In 2016 Elene and two other artists, producer established production company mishkin, in order to create an independent platform for independent film creation and facilitate pro- duction process. mishkin produced Elene’s first feature, I am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth (2017). Which was premiered in Rotterdam, and held numerous prises in different festivals.