Stéphanie Saadé - Biography
b. 1983, Lebanon / Lives and works between Beirut, Paris and Amsterdam
The work of Stéphanie Saadé develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues, signs, imageless and occasionally silent trails with us, 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.
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. She was an artist in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014/2015), and the Cité Internationale des arts, Paris (2015). Saadé was the 2018-19 recipient of the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) 3Package Deal program linked to 4 institutions of the city of Amsterdam.
She has had institutional solo exhibitions in Kunsthaus Pasquart (2022) in Biel, Switzerland, Museum Van Loon (The Travels of Here and Now, 2019) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Parc Saint Léger (Crossing States, 2018) and Maison Salvan (Destiny Without a Beholder, 2018) in France, as well as a duo exhibition at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture (2021) in Maastricht, Netherlands. Her work has also been exhibited at Sharjah Biennale 13, Sharjah, UAE / Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE / MISK Art Institute, Ryadh, Saudi Arabia / Saudi Art Council, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / Home Works 7, Beirut, Lebanon / Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy / MAXXI, Rome, Italy / MOCA Toronto, Canada / MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium / Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium / Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France / Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France / La Criée, Rennes, France / National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland / Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway / Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden / Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, New York, USA / Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom / Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon / A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah.
Stéphanie Saadé’s works are in the collection of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, Saradar Foundation, Lebanon, MAXXI Rome, Italy, FMAC Paris, France and Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, Centre Pompiduo Paris, CNAP (Centre National Des Arts Plastiques), France.
The first artistic monograph of Stéphanie Saadé titled, Building A Home With Time was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst following her solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland, with a text written by Caroline Cros and an interview by Stefanie Gschwend.