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
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