Elzara Oiseau
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). he takes part of the artist Residency in Athens by Fabrica Athens.
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Elzara Oiseau is Ukrainian contemporary artist with Crimean Tatar origins. Because of the deportation of Crimean Tatars – indigenous people of Crimea, by Stalin she did not grow up in her homeland, but in the Caucasus region of Russia. In 2000 she finally moved with her parents to Crimea, where she 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.
The profound intersections between personal history, identity, and the collective traumas of displacement are the main topic
of my artistic practice. As a Crimean Tatar born into exile, then becoming double times refugee, her work is a dialogue
between the self and a world that is constantly shifting—marked by conflict, loss, and the search for belonging, search for
home. What is HOME?
