Stéphanie Saadé

Stéphanie Saadé

(b. 1983, Lebanon) Lives and works between Beirut, Paris, and Amsterdam

Stéphanie Saadé graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France and attended a post-graduate program at the China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China. The work of Stéphanie Saadé develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues, signs, imageless, and occasionally silent trails, which interact like the words of a single sentence. It is for the viewer to decipher them, as would an archaeologist faced with traces, fossils, and fragments. This enigmatic quality often stems from the artist’s own experience. In her oeuvre, personal experience is invoked exclusively as a universal subject. Saadé was an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014/2015), and the Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (2015). Saadé is the 2018-19 recipient of the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) 3Package Deal program, a one-year Interhistoricity scholarship linked to 4 renowned museums and institutions in Amsterdam. 
She has had institutional solo exhibitions include Building a Home with Time, Centre Pasquart, Switzerland (2022); The Travels of Here and Now, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam (2019); Crossing States, Parc Saint Léger, France (2018); and Destiny Without a Beholder, France (2018). Her work has also been exhibited at Histoires D'abstraction, Le Cauchemar De Greenberg, Fondation D'entreprise Ricard, France (2022); Age Of You, Jameel Art Center, United Arab Emirates (2021); Luogo E Segni, Punta Della Dogana, Italy (2019); Age Of You, MOCA oca Toronto, Canada (2019); So Long Ago It Feels Like A Memory Of Someone Else, Hessel Museum, Ccs Bard, United States of America (2018); Sharjah Biennale 13, Tamawuj, Act I, United Arab Emirates  (2017); Home Beirut. Sounding The Neighbors, Maxxi Rome, Italy (2017). 
Stéphanie Saadé’s works are In The Collection Of Maxxi Rome, Italy; FMAC Paris, France; Barjeel Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; and Saradar Foundation, Lebanon.