Christelle Oyiri
Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based artist whose work weaves together music, moving image, performance and sculpture into speculative cartographies of identity and power. Also known under her music alias CRYSTALLMESS, she mobilises the languages of subculture to interrogate fractured temporalities, collective memory, and the psychic aftershocks of displacement and obliteration. Influenced by French theory of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault, Oyiri creates environments that blur the boundaries between the sacred and the synthetic, the intimate and the systemic.
Her work has been shown at Amant, New York; Zachęta, Warsaw; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Tramway, Glasgow; Gathering, London; Auto Italia, London; Gladstone Gallery, New York; LAND, Los Angeles; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; LAS Art Foundation, Berlin; and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, among others. Her installation PERPETUAL REMIX premiered at Tate Modern in June 2025 as an expansive meditation on the idea of remix as a form of survival and myth making. In May 2025, Oyiri was invited by Arthur Jafa to share her readings, time-based image and music as a part of the exhibition ‘Corps et âmes’ at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris.
b. 1992, Val-de-Marne, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
Run It Back, Gathering, London, UK
Belief May Vary, Amant, New York, USA
2025
Ghost Rider, Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
TRAP, Gallery Derouillon, Paris, France
Christelle Oyiri, Champ Lacombe, London, UK
Frieze, Gathering, London, UK
Heaven's worth, Hell on earth, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
Dead God Flow, LAS Art Foundation at CANK, Berlin, Germany
In a perpetual remix where is my own song?, Tate Modern, London, UK VENOM VOYAGE, GLASSHOUSE, London, UK
2024
AN EYE FOR AN ‘I’, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Miraculous Arms, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Survival in the 21st century, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
SIGNAL, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
CIRCA PRIZE, Piccadilly Lights, London, UK
2023
VENOM VOYAGE, ETH / GTA Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
HYPERFATE, Sadies Coles HQ, London, UK
Regards du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Au-delà, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
Manifesto Festival, Paris, France
Après L’Éclipse, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France
UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
BAROQUE, Champ Lacombe Gallery, Biarritz, France
2022
Gentle Battle, Tramway Glasgow, Glasgow UK
ECHOES, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Baby, welcome to the party, Maison des arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, France
REAL CORPOREAL, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2021
Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Auto Italia, London, UK
R.I.P Aporia, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2019
Collective Amnesia, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Gathering Exhibitions
Selected Press
30 Apr 2026
Autre reviews Christelle Oyiri’s solo debut in the US at Amant
29 Apr 2026
Kimberlean Donis reviews Christelle Oyiri's exhibition in New York, Belief May Vary, for Impulse Magazine
28 Apr 2026
Plaster Magazine includes Christelle Oyiri's Run It Back in their Plaster Guide
22 Apr 2026
Christelle Oyiri is featured in CURA.46 in a text by Martha Kirszenbaum
31 Mar 2026
Erin Ikeuchi interviews Christelle Oyiri about her current show Belief May Vary at Amant in Brooklyn, New York for Hypebeast