Biography

Élara Voss

Born in Vienna, 1987. Lives and works between New York and the Swiss Alps.

Élara Voss has spent the last fifteen years systematically dismantling the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation. Her practice is rooted in what she calls "irrational precision" — the meticulous construction of work that defies logical interpretation while maintaining an almost obsessive formal rigor.

Working across oil paint, bronze, neon, found materials, and increasingly large-scale immersive environments, Voss creates experiences that oscillate between the brutally physical and the ethereally sublime. Her palette — dominated by deep blacks, raw earth tones, and sudden eruptions of gold — reflects a worldview where beauty is inseparable from violence.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Tate, Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim, and numerous private collections worldwide.

Portrait of Élara Voss in her studio

Élara Voss in her Tribeca studio, 2025. Photo: Marcus Haas

Selected Exhibitions & Awards

2026Art Basel Miami Beach — Featured Artist, Meridians Sector
2025Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles — Solo Exhibition
2024Venice Biennale — "Stranieri Ovunque" International Exhibition
2024White Cube, London — "Tremor Studies" Solo Exhibition
2023Gagosian, New York — "Irrational Geometries" Solo Exhibition
2022Tate Modern, London — Turner Prize Nominee
2021Documenta 15, Kassel — Invited Artist
2020MoMA PS1, New York — "Greater New York" Group Exhibition

Selected Press

"Voss makes the invisible architectures of emotion disturbingly tangible."

— The New York Times

"A singular voice in contemporary art — fearless, uncompromising, and brilliantly irrational."

— Artforum

"Her work operates in the space between destruction and genesis."

— Frieze