OKSANA PYZH
Oksana Pyzh (*1989 in Ukraine) is a visual artist who has been living and working in Düsseldorf since 2022. She studied architecture in Charkiw and graduated with a Master’s degree in 2011. Her artistic practice primarily encompasses painting, analogue photograms, and site-specific installations. Pyzh’s work has been nominated for and selected for several art prizes. In 2015, she was a finalist for MUHi – Young Ukrainian Artists in Kyiv, a Ukrainian competition for emerging artists. In 2016, she was a finalist for the Comfy Kunst Preis, and in 2023, she was a finalist for the Kunst, Psyche und Gesundheit art prize awarded by the 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.
