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 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) Lives and works in Paris, France

Gathering
Christelle Oyiri,In a perpetual remix where is my own song?,2025
Tate Modern, London, UK,
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Christelle Oyiri,VENOM VOYAGE,2025
GLASSHOUSE, London, UK,
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Christelle Oyiri,VENOM VOYAGE,2025
GLASSHOUSE, London, UK,
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Christelle Oyiri,GENTLE BATTLE,2022
Tramway Glasgow, Glasgow UK,
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Gathering
Christelle Oyiri,In a perpetual remix where is my own song?,2025
Tate Modern, London, UK,
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Christelle Oyiri,VENOM VOYAGE,2025
GLASSHOUSE, London, UK,
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Christelle Oyiri,VENOM VOYAGE,2025
GLASSHOUSE, London, UK,
Gathering
Christelle Oyiri,GENTLE BATTLE,2022
Tramway Glasgow, Glasgow UK,

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2025

(Upcoming) TRAP, Gallery Derouillon, Paris, France (Upcoming) Champ Lacombe, 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

Selected Press

3 Oct 2025

Christelle Oyiri and Livia Russell discuss Oyiri's upcoming show VENOM VOYAGE with Gathering in the Focus section at Frieze London

18 Sept 2025

Office Magazine reviews Christelle Oyiri's Berlin installation Dead God Flow

17 Sept 2025

ARTnews includes Christelle Oyiri's presentation in the Focus section as a must-see at Frieze London 2025

14 Sept 2025

Wallpaper reviews Christelle Oyiri’s exhibition Dead God Flow at the LAS Art Foundation

6 Aug 2025

Katrina Nzegwu intervewed Christelle Oyiri for Elephant.art