Elena Cué


Elena Cué is a Spanish businesswoman, art expert and writer. She graduated in Philosophy and Gemology, publishes articles, and interviews world renown artists for the Spanish newspaper ABC, as well as for the US version of the Huffington Post.
Elena is the president of the Alberto and Elena Cortina Foundation, dedicated to social works. She manages the foundation together with her husband, the businessman Alberto Cortina. In October 1997, she won the Spanish shooting championship. In that same year, she finished as runner-up in the European championship.

Relationship with art

Elena founded the web Alejandra de Argos, where she writes articles about art and influential interviews and world renowned artists such as Jeff Koons, the Colombian Fernando Botero or her friend Cai Guo-Qiang, as well as Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa. In addition to the articles in her website, Elena writes for the Spanish newspaper ABC and at the US edition of the Huffington Post. In November 2015 Elena joined the patronage for the Museo Reina Sofía foundation and in June 2016 she joined the patronage of the ABC Museum of Madrid. Elena is a member of Vivre en couleur of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.

Notable interviews

Charitable foundation

In 2011, Elena Cué and Alberto Cortina created the Alberto and Elena Cortina Foundation with the stated purpose to promote, create, develop and aid individuals and projects with all kinds of charity and education aims, and with a special focus on children. The foundation started with various projects in parallel. In 2011 it helped the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake by distributing food aid during that year and by reconstructing homes and other infrastructures. The foundation also provides help to woman at risk of Social exclusion, free housing and a soup kitchen. In 2012 the foundation started the invisible kitchen service, through it food and other basic supplies are distributed to families in need at their own homes. Another project promoted Elena's foundation is the "Econosolidario", the only grocery store in Spain where the families designated by social services can use a card that holds points to "buy" the basic products they need.

Personal life

In 1997, Elena Cué started a relationship with the businessman Alberto Cortina. They were married in 2000 at Cortina's estate "Las Cuevas". In 2006 their daughter Alejandra Cortina Cué was born.