Biography

Marion Oster is a French artist born on April 21, 1960 in Niamey, Niger. After living in Mali, Mauritania and a Monégasque boarding school, Marion Oster settled in Paris in the 1990s. Self-taught, she completed an artistic practice developed since childhood by becoming the student of Marion de Champ, painter and sculptor by training, then followed a sculpture academy from 1998 to 2000. Painter, sculptor and ceramist, Marion expressed herself early on various supports which nourished her subsequent practice. In 2000, alongside her personal artistic practice, Marion decided to found Espace Lucrèce to offer artists an exhibition and promotion space. A bridge gallery aimed at showcasing the work of little-known artists, Espace Lucrèce gives visibility to various trends such as free figuration, expressionists, singular artists, abstract artists, hyperrealists, naive artists, symbolists, etc. Subsequently, settling in Lyon, Marion founded a new gallery: le cœur au ventre. Cultivating a strong interest in first civilizations, she develops a complex universe, both wonderful, kitsch, sensitive and intimate. Her work consists of dolls with tribal tattoos, mysterious glittery characters, ex-votos or banners, all traces of spiritualities about which we have only one certainty: their benevolence. Marion Oster's meticulous and patient work brings to life creations of great freedom, transporting us to the heart of her imagination which seems familiar to us as much as it is totally unknown to us. Creation is for her a permanent activity, almost biological like parallel breathing...