Elena Tengri is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores resilience, fragility and humanity’s evolving relationship with nature.
Born in Yakutia (Sakha republic), one of the coldest inhabited regions on Earth, and now based in Cyprus, she works across sculpture, photography and 3D media to reflect on transformation, disappearance and time.
After studying photography in California, Tengri continued to expand her practice across different media, developing a visual language rooted in observation, transformation and materiality. Her experiences between contrasting climates and cultures continue to shape her interest in the intersection between myth, matter and environment.
Her recent project Ashes of the Cold (2025) brings the ancient Sakha myth of the Bull of Cold into a contemporary context. Created as a monumental ice sculpture in the Egyptian desert, the work transforms the melting of ice into a metaphor for climate change and memory - a quiet meditation on strength, loss and renewal.
Through ephemeral materials such as ice, snow and sand, Tengri explores how matter dissolves and reappears, revealing both human vulnerability and the persistence of natural cycles. Her practice draws inspiration from land art and environmental processes, offering a space of reflection where mythology, ecology and emotion meet.
Born in Yakutia (Sakha republic), one of the coldest inhabited regions on Earth, and now based in Cyprus, she works across sculpture, photography and 3D media to reflect on transformation, disappearance and time.
After studying photography in California, Tengri continued to expand her practice across different media, developing a visual language rooted in observation, transformation and materiality. Her experiences between contrasting climates and cultures continue to shape her interest in the intersection between myth, matter and environment.
Her recent project Ashes of the Cold (2025) brings the ancient Sakha myth of the Bull of Cold into a contemporary context. Created as a monumental ice sculpture in the Egyptian desert, the work transforms the melting of ice into a metaphor for climate change and memory - a quiet meditation on strength, loss and renewal.
Through ephemeral materials such as ice, snow and sand, Tengri explores how matter dissolves and reappears, revealing both human vulnerability and the persistence of natural cycles. Her practice draws inspiration from land art and environmental processes, offering a space of reflection where mythology, ecology and emotion meet.
