elena rocabert, architect & artist

Madrid, Spain

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Elena Rocabert (Madrid) practices at the intersection of art and architecture. Her work, which takes form in painting, sculptural production and spatial intervention, centers on material experimentation to explore speculative fictions and cycles of transformation—rebirth, decay, and the tension between destruction and creation. Fiction, often tinged with dystopian undertones, serves as a critical tool in her practice, opening speculative paths for research and reflection. Rocabert’s work is grounded in a deep engagement with social ecologies and material experimentation, aiming to expose the unseen structures and layers embedded within space.

She holds a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). From 2021 to 2024, she was part of the curatorial team at Medialab in Matadero Madrid,  the artistic research labs LAB#01 Sentient Media, LAB#02 The Metabolic Sublime, and LAB#03 Synthetic Minds, exploring themes such as artificial intelligence, urban metabolism, and synthetic ecologies through contemporary art. In 2024, she collaborated with TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Museum of Altamira on an artistic research project focused on non-human temporalities and cultural landscapes.

She currently teaches in the “Experimentation” module of the Master’s in Textile Design and New Materials at IED Madrid, as well as in the course “Spatial Design.” Additionally, she serves as a guest juror in the course “Design, Analysis and Ideation” (DAI) at ETSAM.

She has completed artist residencies at Never At Home (Funkhaus, Vienna), GlogauAIR (Berlin), Pluto (Valencia), and Organismo (TBA21, Madrid). Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Funkhaus Vienna, Teatros del Canal, Madrid Design Festival, Mayrit Biennial, Sala de Arte Joven of the Community of Madrid, GlogauAIR Berlin, Casabanchel and Madrid Fashion Week, among others. 

In recognition of her practice, Rocabert was the winner of the first edition of the AD Creators Awards in 2024 and was a finalist in the COAM Awards 2025 in the category of ephemeral architecture

Spanish Embassy in Austria - Interview : Frequency Debris: Elena Rocabert’s dissection on Viennese Funkhaus