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
23 Oct 2025
Wallpaper Magazine names Christelle Oyiri as one of the 'nine standout artists that shaped Frieze London 2025' for her booth, VENOM VOYAGE
22 Oct 2025
Metal Magazine includes Gathering's booth with Christelle Oyiri at Frieze London as a highlight of the Focus section
21 Oct 2025
Monopol Magazine features Christelle Oyiri's VENOM VOYAGE in their list of 10 Highlights of Frieze London
17 Oct 2025
The Observer highlights Christelle Oyiri's booth with Gathering at this year's Frieze London
17 Oct 2025
The Focus Stand Prize at Frieze London 2025 gave Christelle Oyiri’s installation VENOM VOYAGE with Gathering an honourable mention