Ellen Wittkampf (1984) is an artist whose work is about paradoxes and contradictions within our daily life. She is attracted to the ambiguity of relationships with ourselves, others and society. 

To talk about people Ellen often portrays objects. With a playful, sometimes surreal style, her work shows a sensibility towards composition, colours and materials. The tactility of materials arouses the longing to touch, and adds to the visual focus photography induces. It creates an impossible longing as the surfaces made to create a photograph are no longer present within the image.

By staging specific situations she plays with the ordinary and invites her viewer to question the way they approach daily life. Besides her current study of photography at the Royal Academy of Arts – the Hague, Ellen has a degree in social psychology and used to teach social sciences at the University of Utrecht. Her current work is an extension of her precious career. In her work she continues to dissect the absurdity of the human mind. To do this she often uses personal experience as a starting point for a broader dialogue. Ultimately her art questions how we see ourselves, and how we build our society.