OKSANA PYZH
25.9.-22.11.2026
Oksana Pyzh (*1989 in der Ukraine) ist bildende Künstlerin und lebt und arbeitet seit 2022 in Düsseldorf. Sie studierte Architektur in Charkiw und schloss ihr Studium 2011 mit einem Masterabschluss ab. Ihre künstlerische Praxis umfasst vor allem Malerei, analoge Fotogramme und raumbezogene Installationen. Für ihre künstlerische Arbeit wurde Pyzh mehrfach für Kunstpreise nominiert und ausgewählt. 2015 war sie Finalistin des ukrainischen Wettbewerbs MUHi – Young Ukrainian Artists in Kyiv, 2016 Finalistin des Comfy Kunst Preis und 2023 Finalistin des Kunstpreises „Kunst, Psyche und Gesundheit“ des FBZ Bochum.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Notable exhibition venues include DIE GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf at Kunstpalast, Bilker Bunker, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Odesa, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, the Manggha Museum in Kraków, and the Frauenmuseum Bonn.
Painting is at the centre of Oksana Pyzh’s artistic practice. She explores landscape as a space of memory, perception, and transformation. Her works often begin with specific places and photographic references, which she transforms, simplifies, and fragments through the process of painting. As a result, her landscapes exist between recognisability and abstraction. Rather than functioning as documentary representations, they emerge as fluid spaces of memory.
Alongside painting, Pyzh works with analogue photograms, created directly on light-sensitive paper without the use of a camera. Another important aspect of her practice is site-specific installation, in which materiality, transparency, light, and spatial perception play a central role. Across these different media, she explores the relationship between presence and absence, as well as between physical place and memory.