Elzara Oiseau
Elzara Oiseau
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- Elzara Oiseau
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Preferred pronouns:she/her
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Birth year:1989
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Elzara Oiseau is currently preparing the following exhibitions: Planting roots by Bahay Contemporary (Geneva, 14 Sep - 10 Oct), collective exhibition New Ways in Künstler Vereinigung (Zurich, 31 Oct - 10 Nov), collective exhibition Regionale\Borders (Weil am Rhein, 30 Nov - 19 Jan). She takes part of the artist Residency in Athens by Fabrica Athens.
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Elzara Oiseau is an Ukrainian contemporary artist with Crimean Tatar origins. Because of the deportation by Stalin, she did not grow up in her homeland, but in the Caucasus region of Russia. In 2000 she moved with her parents to Crimea, where she grew up, graduated school and then studied Monumental Art in Simferopol (2005–2011). In 2014, when Crimea was annexed by Russia, she moved to Kyiv and then to Irpin. In April 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Elzara fled alone to Zurich – with a big roll of her paintings from the studio in Kyiv. Since then, Elzara lives and works in a small atelier in Zurich. Since she arrived to Zurich, she has had eleven exhibitions, including two solo exhibitions and four projects that she developed specifically for open calls and collaborations.
In her artistic practice, Elzara usually focuses on abstract calligraphy and interaction with music. The artist blends
texts with images and abstract forms, following the rhythms and melodies of certain songs. Elzara’s exploration of
the shapes, colors, line reflects the perception from the structure of progressive metal and jazz music.
With the following events, Elzara also reflects on her experience with mental consequences of the war.
