Elzara Oiseau Ukrainian Artist

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. These paintings were shown in a solo exhibition at La Galerie
Philosophique in Grandson, Switzerland, in August 2022.
Since April 2022 Elzara lives and works in a small atelier in Zurich. Since arriving in Zurich, she has realized
eleven exhibitions, including two solo exhibitions and four projects that she developed specifically for open calls and
collaborations. Among them:
- a 12-meter painting Fragility for loslassen – loswerden in WASCHRAUM,
Werkstadt Zürich-Altstetten / SBB Werkstätte, March 2023.
- a collaboration with Nathalie Diserens, Swiss visual artist based in Zurich, for
the project le Racinage, shown in April 2023 in GK3.
- the wall painting project Mother.Land for Oerlikon ...

2005-2011 Monumental Art 5.5 years, specialist

2019 course of calligraphy by Veronica Chebanik

SOLO:
2023 –Jazz Lines, collaboration with Nik Bärtsch, personal exhibition + concert, Zentralwäscherei, Halle. Zurich, Switzerland.

2023 –personal exhibition for charity concert for Ukraine, organized by Nik Bärtsch, Exil club. Zurich, Switzerland.
2022 –Lettres, curated by Jorge Canete, La Galerie Philosophique. Grandson, Switzerland.
2021 –Expressions, Angar. Kyiv, Ukraine.

COLLECTIVE:
2024 – project Conversation for collective exhibition Resonanzkörper in WASCHRAUM in historical building, the WASCHRAUM space, SBB Werkstätte, Zurich.
2023 - 2024 –Cosmogony of Senses, collective exhibition, The Korsak’s Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, Ukraine.
2023 – Mother.Land, project for Oerlikon Dream House, collective exhibition, curated by Matteo Kramer & Floyd Bolliger. Zurich, Switzerland.
2023 – Le Racinage, project-collaboration with swiss visual artist Nathalie Diserens, GK3 space. Zurich, Switzerland.
2023 - SORE LAND, collective exhibition, Zentral Wäscherei, Neue Hard 12, 8005, Zurich, Switzerland.
2023 - `Loslassen - loswerden`, wall painting for WASCHRAUM, Werkstadt Zurich Altstetten, Hohlstrasse 420,
8048/SBB Werkstätte, Zurich, Switzerland.
2022 - 2023 `Wenn die Erde bebt` curated by Barbora Gerny, Go Green Art ...