Elena Chirila (b. 1999, Chisinau) is a visual artist and producer whose work - with and about Eastern Europe and Balkans - addresses issues such as gender-based violence, migration, the environmental crisis, and historical revisionism. She studied at UNAGE, Iași, Romania and ESAA école supérieure d’art annecy alpes in France.

The short film Tell Me a Poem (Romania, 2023) that she co-directed was screened at FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival and Filma. Feminist Film Festival (Ukraine). In 2024, she collaborated as an assistant curator for the Trans(myth) project at Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, as a cultural mediator for the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and was awarded the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award.

As a cultural worker and contemporary art producer, she has contributed to numerous collaborative projects in Moldova, Romania, and Slovenia, working with organizations such as Oberliht and the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory.