🎨 Christelle Oyiri. Ghost Rider 📅 21.11.2025 – 01.02.2026 🏛️ Zachęta – National Gallery of Art - Artist: Christelle Oyiri - Curator: Michał Grzegorzek 🕖 Exhibition opening on Thursday (20.11) at 19:00. Free admission. The exhibition is designed as a 15-minute experience. Please note, the exhibition space features strobe effects, loud sounds, and dim lighting. We advise caution for those sensitive to intense stimuli. --- The exhibition “Ghost Rider” is a techno-opera composed of sound, light, and audience performance. Christelle Oyiri is an artist and DJ operating on the borders of electronic music, experimental sound, video art, sculpture and performance. Her works touch on themes of identity, power and collective memory, analysing how digital culture affects our perceptions of the body and beauty. She uses languages of subculture to examine the relationships between the sacred and artificial intelligence, or the intimate and the political. “Ghost Rider’s” theme is disappearance. The artist has unearthed forgotten dance music pioneers, predominantly working-class Blacks, whose sonic experimentation laid the foundations for the worldwide club culture’s defining genres: from disco to house, techno, garage and electro. Their innovations were crafted in Detroit basements, at New York voguing balls, in the queer clubs of Chicago, and at London squat parties. Even though their work set aesthetic and technological benchmarks for the evolution of electronic music, many of them were driven out by the music industry, with its festivals, party tourism, and manufactured star DJs. Although modern pop culture is obsessed with their legacy, they are rarely given any credit. Oyiri’s exhibition examines the role of technology in creating lasting communities. How can we evoke the past to forge a more democratic future? This exhibition at Zachęta National Gallery of Art presents the artist’s latest work: a DJ booth, generally used for playing music to packed club dancefloors. Oyiri’s sculpture is far from typical club equipment. Christelle Oyiri’s “Ghost Rider” combines hi-tech with traditional media and materials to create a complex, quasi-organic system. Hard bronze converges with malleable sounds and lights, and the machines are inspired by the humans. The exhibition is organized within the framework of the sixth edition of “BMW Art Club: The Future is Art.” Media patrons: - Vogue Polska - Chilli Zet - Label - Forbes Woman - Forbes - Newsweek - Onet - Noizz - artinfo.pl - KMAG - TVP Kultura Institution financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Zachęta is supported by: Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych Organizers: - BMW Art Club - Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
