works
Stéphanie Saadé
Échiquier, 2022
chessboard and mother-of-pearl
47 x 47 cm
A chessboard used by the artist and his family in his childhood.
The current geographical coordinates of his father, mother, brother and the artist and his daughter are inlaid.
Stéphanie Saadé
Pyramide (chaussettes), 2022
socks in all existing sizes (0-1 months to size 42), thread, thermo-lacquered metal shelf
14 x 32 x 4 cm
Stéphanie Saadé
À Rebours, 2019-2020
212 À Rebours books by J.-K. Huysmans dating from 1912 to 2020
140 (height) x 150 cm(diameter)
Stéphanie Saadé
Terre Pourrie, 2019
found snail shell, “rotten earth” pigment, painted metal structure
3 x 12 cm
Stéphanie Saadé
The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust, 2020
curtains and enbroidery
4 curtains x (322,5 x 294 cm)
Stéphanie Saadé
Mariage, 2014
used wrenches, welding
2 x 15 cm
The Shape of Distance, 2016
table et chaise d’écolier, laiton soudé table : 77 x 40 x 55 et chaise : 80 x 45 x 36 cm
printed paper, gold 24-carats
36 x 27,5 (with frame)
A lentil seed is molded and cast in gold. The same original seed is then left to sprout and grow. The cast and the growing plant are exhibited side by side.
Chalkboard, 2018 old chalkboard with silver leaf 186 x 140 cm 
polished brass
Sèvres Outdoor
polished brass
Sèvres Outdoor
Re-Enactment is centred around objects fabricated by others, that the artist reproduces. Encountered by chance in different places, the chosen objects escape standardization. They have been conceived according to a strange logic, different from the artist’s own logic. Through the process of reproduction, this foreign logic is understood and appropriated. The re-created objects surpass practicality. They access new layers of meaning, and raise questions about the cultural aesthetic they are the results of, or not. Re-Enactment generates a slow collection of unimportant, neglected objects, which quickly disappear otherwise. Their lives become longer.
welded iron, stainless steel and brass, 40×270 cm
A ladder is made of three different metals, incarnating the idea of an ascension.
key, earth, 15x15x7 cm
The key of the childhood house of the artist in Lebanon is stuck in a small pile of earth from the country where she currently resides.
childhood photograph, 24-carat gold leaf, various dimensions
A photograph from the artist’s childhood is covered over in gold leaf. The past memory is no longer accessible and instead reflects the present.
printed map, mirror stainless steel track, 83x83cm.
A familiar trajectory, regularly undertook by the artist when she lived in Paris, is transposed onto the map of Lebanon. A number of obstacles prevent the Parisian path to be crossed : it is interrupted by a river, buildings, or the absence of streets. By coincidence, the end point on the new map is located very close to the place where the artist lived as a child.
print, water, 29,7 x 42 cm
A photograph of the sky and the sea lays in a puddle of water. The water from the sea falls down from the photograph to the floor. The water on
the floor goes up on the photograph and slowly degrades it. Everyday, the water is renewed.
installation size : 50cm
A vase is broken into smaller and smaller fragments, until some of its fragments are reduced to powder.
163 x 278cm / 2 laser-jet photographs divided in bands and laminated on both sides of the blades of a Venetian blind
When the gallery opens, the blinds are shifted : the day sky is seen from the inside and the night sky from the outside. When the gallery closes, the blinds are shifted again and the night falls inside of the gallery. During the opening hours, it is the day only inside of the gallery and everywhere outside is dark. During the closing hours, the works in the gallery are put to sleep, and the exhibition moves to the outside. Window Shade establishes a relationship between the individual and natural phenomena; In off-beat with the natural cycles, a double reality is created: the day rises twice in the city, and the night falls twice.
hand made iron and stainless steel chain, 300 x 5 x 1 cm
A chain is composed of alternated stainless steel and iron links. It attaches together two materials with opposite qualities. The stainless steel links will never rust, the iron links will rust. With time, the chain will dissolve.
hand made iron and stainless steel chain, 300 x 5 x 1 cm
A chain is composed of alternated stainless steel and iron links. It attaches together two materials with opposite qualities. The stainless steel links will never rust, the iron links will rust. With time, the chain will dissolve.
natural white rose, artificial white rose, vase, 15x30cm / A natural rose and its plastic imitation cohabitate in the same vase. As the days pass by, the difference between them becomes an evidence.
biography
Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983 in Lebanon. Saadé lives and works between Beirut, Paris and Amsterdam.
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, The Netherlands (2014-2015), and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2015). In 2023 she was selected for the residency program Accélérations at Centre Pompidou, Paris, curated by Michel Gauthier, and supported by BNP Paribas Banque Privée. The works produced were acquired by Centre Pompidou and exhibited in the permanent collection.
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’s work has been presented in a duo show at Marres, Maastricht (NL) and solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel, CH; Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, NL; Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR and Maison Salvan, Labège, FR. She featured recently in group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL; LLS Paleis, Antwerp, BE; Poush Aubervilliers, FR; Villa Empain, Brussels, BE; Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, FR; Jameel Art Center, Dubai, UAE; Museum Rijswijk, NL; Moca Toronto, CA; Punta Della Dogana, Venice, IT; MUCEM, Marseille, FR; Hessel Museum, New York, USA; Sharjah Biennal 13, Sharjah, U.A.E.; Home Works 7, Beirut, LB; MuHKA, Antwerp, BE; La Traverse, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Alfortville, Alfortville, FR; Marres, Maastricht, NL; Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, DE; Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, FR; Counterspace, Zurich, CH; Parc Saint Léger hors les murs, Nevers, FR; Mosaic Rooms, London, UK; Casa Árabe, Madrid, ES; Casa Árabe, Cordoba, ES; La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, ES; New Positions, Art Cologne, Cologne, DE; Van Eyck, Maastricht, NL; Le 59e Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, FR; Beirut Art Center, Beirut, LC; Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, LB.
Her works are included in many collections, including those of Centre Pompidou Paris, CNAP Centre National des Arts Plastiques (FR); Frac Franche-Comté (FR); Fonds d'art contemporain-Paris Collections (FR); Musée MAXXI Rome; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Barjeel Art Foundation Sharjah; Saradar Foundation, Beirut.
Her first monograph Building A Home With Time was published following her solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland.
Voir aussi :
Stéphanie Saadé – Le Chemin du Retour – Fiac 2017
Solo exhibitions
2025
2022
2020
2019
2018
2016
2015
Discipline of Nostalgia, adhoc gallery, Vigo, Espagne New positions, Art Cologne, présentation solo avec la galerie Akinci, Allemagne Van Eyck open studios, Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht, Pays-Bas
Group exhibitions
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018 Condo unit, avec Stéphanie Saadé, Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros, Michael-John Wheelan, The Breeders, Athens, GR Art Dusseldorf, Akinci gallery, Areal Böhler, Dusseldorf, DE Zeitspuren, The power of now, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, CH Home Beirut. Sounding the neighbors, MAAXI, Rome, Italie Beirut, Beyrut, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, exposition collective itinérante, Oslo Kunstforening / Ystad Konstmuseum Cycles of collapsing Progress, Rachid Karamé International Fair, Tripoli, Liban OR, co-curated by Marcel Tavé, Philippe Jockey, Jean-Roch Bouiller & Miriame Morel Deledalle, MUCEM, Marseille Sundays, 019, Gand, Belgique Liste Art Fair, avec Marfa’Projects (Beirut), Bâle, Suisse Moonshow avec Caline Aoun, Charbel-Jocseph H. Boutros, Fahd Burki, Mehreen Murtaza, Stéphanie Saadé et Michael John Whelan, Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai UAE So long ago it feels like a memory of someone else, Hessel Museum, New-York Le Chemin du Retour, Printemps de l’art contemporain, parcours artistiques à Marseille, Aix en Provence, Istres et Chateauneuf-le-rouge Ashkal Alwan 25th anniversary exhibition, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon 2017 Sharajah Biennale 13, curated by Christine Thome, Tamawuj, Act 1 le chemin du retour, FIAC hors-les-murs, jardin des Tuileries, Paris / galerie anne barrault Home Beirut, sounding the neighbours, curated by Hou Hanrou & Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI, Rome, IT The Materiality of the Invisible, Van Eyck, Marres and Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Pays Bas Home is so Fucking Complicated, curated by Samuel Leuenberger,galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna Scamming, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildfoerster and Flavio Palasciano,Palazzo Lancia, Torino, IT Ghosting of Beings and Worlds, Grey Noise gallery, Dubai Quiet, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Barbara Seiler gallery, Zurich, CH Kindlin, curated by Rachel Dedman, Fotopub, Novo Mesto, SL Epitopou, ephemeral works in the landscape, Andros Island, Greece Kunsthalle 3000, a project by Thomas Geiger, Dalieh, Raouché, Beirut, LB Transformations, Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam Two to Tango, Sperling gallery, Munich 2016 Say it with flowers, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Allemagne Sèvres Outdoors, Sèvres, cité de la céramique / galerie anne barrault Voice of the Border, curated by Fatma Cheffi,galerie Selma Feriani, Tunis, Tunisie nouveau ! avec Tiziana La Melia, Guillaume Pinard, Dasha Shishkin, Céline Vaché-Olivieri et Alun Williams, galerie anne barrault, Paris Still Life, curated by Franck Balland,espace culturel Claude Parent, Nevers, France Les Fragments de l’Amour, curated by Léa Bismuth, La Traverse, centre d’art contemporain d’Alfortville, France Do Boomerangs Always Come Back ? Castle Out-Rekem, Limburg, BE The Morning I Killed a Fly, curated by Chiara Ianeselli, Galeria Mazzoli, Modena, IT 2015 I spy with my little eye : an emerging generation of Beirut artists, Mosaic Room, London, Great-Britain (2015), Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain (2016), Casa Arabe, Cordoue (2016), curated by Sam Bardaouil et Till Fellrath Adam, Eve & the Devil, with Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Stanley Brouwn, David Claerbout, Harald Gruyter & Jos Thys, Ann Veronica Janssens, MARRES, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Pays-Bas Frieze London Focus, Grey Noise The Girl with the Sun in her Head, Van Eyck, Maastricht, Pays-Bas Sun, Romance and Destruction, galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France Eternel Retour, with Mathieu Mercier, Rodolphe Delaunay, Alderic Trevel, galerie Perception Park, Paris, France 2014 13, LA CONSERVERA, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcie, Espagne Passages, Akinci gallery, Amsterdam, avec Sophie Calle, Hamza Halloubi and Imogen Stidworthy The Pink Sky, MuHKA, Anvers, Belgique 59e salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, FranceMemory Material, Stéphanie Saadé et Jananne al Ani, Akinci gallery, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Witness Matter, Vitrine gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni 2013 Intangible Experiences,… curated by Amanda Abi Khalil, Grey Noise gallery, Dubaï, E.A.U Journeys through our Heritage, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beyrouth, Liban Crisis Practice, WORKSHOP gallery, Beyrouth, Liban Another Time, The Running Horse gallery, Beyrouth, Liban We hesitated between arrangements, modulations and manoeuvres, MINUS 5, Mkalles, Liban TRANSFORM, curated by Sibylle Heinger & Franz Krähenbühhl, Berne, Suisse PROGR-Fenster, PROGR, Berne, Suisse Peeping Tom Issue#3 Beirut Launching exhibition, Papercut, Mar Mikahaël, LB 2012 Qalandiya International (QI) Biennale, biennale itinérante, Palestine Young Artist of the Year, the Hassan Hourani Award, A.M.Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine A Territory of Resistance, The Running Horse gallery, Karantina, Liban 2011 Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, Liban
Bibliography
CATALOGUES
2023 catalogue Prix Carta Bianca, France
2019 Luogo et Segni, Fondation Pinault, Venise, Italie.
2018 Or, MUCEM, Marseille, France. Destinée Cherche Propriétaire, Maison Salvan (monographie et livre d’artiste) It’s always been, contemporary artists from lebanon, Imago Mundi, Italy.
2017 Home Beirut, Sounding the Neighbors, MAXXI, Rome, Italie.
2015 The Morning I Killed a Fly, avec un texte de Chiara Ianeselli, curatrice, galerie Mazzolli, Modène, Italie. Van Eyck open studios catalogue, Maastricht, Pays-Bas.
2014 The Pink Sky catalogue d’exposition, MuHKA, Anvers, Belgique. Salon de Montrouge catalogue d’exposition, Montrouge, France.
2013 PEEPING TOM DIGEST #3 BEIRUT, Paris, France. Journeys through our Heritage, catalogue d’exposition, Beirut Exhibition Center, Liban.
2012 Young Artist of the Year Award catalogue d’exposition, A.M.Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine. Exposure 2011, catalogue d’exposition, Beirut Art Center, Liban.
2010 Catalogue des diplômés, ENSBA, Paris, France.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Une Poétique de la Réparation, texte de Caroline Cros, Marfa’ Projects, Beirut, Lebanon.
2016 Rewind, Fast, Forward, Counter Space, Zurich, Suisse.
2015 TRANSFORM, Berne, Suisse. I Spy with my Little Eye, Mosaic Rooms, Londres, Royaume-Uni. Adam, Eve and the Devil, MARRES, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Pays-Bas. The Girl with the Sun in her Head, entretiens avec Padraic E.Moore, curateur, Van Eyck, Pays-Bas.
2013 Crisis Practice publication, WORKSHOP gallery, Liban. Volume 2, publication annuelle, Grey Noise, Dubaï, UAE.
PRESS
2019 Art Forum, par Murtaza Vali, 4 juin Art in America, par Rahel Aima, 1er mai Alserkal Folio, « Retracing, remembering », par rachel bennett, 22 avril Art Agenda, « Stéphanie Saadé’s «l’espace de 70 jours» », par Natasha Marie Llorens, 7 février
2018 Beaux-Arts magazine, « 12 786 jours dans la vie de Stéphanie Saadé », par Emmanuelle Lequeux. Beaux-Arts magazine hors-série, « Or au MUCEM », paru le 16 mai 2018, ean : 9791020404480 Alserkal Avenue Folio, « The effect of revisited time , par Katrina Kufer. Make it last, « artist Stéphanie Saadé and the natural world », par Reem Idriss.
2017
Art Press N°444, oeuvre en couverture et article « 13e Biennale D’art Contemporain De Sharjah », par Anaël Pigeat. The Daily Star, « Precious Banalities In Gold Leaf », de Jim Quilty.
2016
Extérieurs, « Stéphanie Saadé Magnifie Le Temps », par Coralie Técher. Ibraaz, « Stéphanie Saadé’s The Shape Of Distance », par Rahel Aima. 2015 Art Press, « Home Works 7 : Beyrouth solaire malgré tout », Léa Bismuth. The Daily Star, « Toxic Monuments, precious Landscapes », Jim Quilty. Le Quotidien de l’Art n°761, « Stéphanie Saadé, Souvenir du Liban », Emmanuelle Lequeux.
2014 Frieze issue 162, Paul Carey Kent.
2013 Dust magazine online.
Collections
Centre National des Arts Plastiques : CNAP, France
MAXXI Rome, Italy
BARJEEL ART FOUNDATION Charjah, UAE
Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, France
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands
Grants and residencies
GRANTS
2024 PRIX FLUXUS CPGA (Comité des Galeries d’Art), Frieze London with Marfa’ Projects, Beirut
2023 PRIX CARTABIANCA, Fondation Pujade-Lauraine, France
2018 NADA ARTADIA AWARD, Nada Miami with Counter Space, Zurich
RESIDENCIES
2022-2023
Accelerations season at the Centre Pompidou
curated by Michel Gauthier
2018/2019 3 Package Deal, bourse d’un an du Fond d’Amsterdam pour l’Art (AFK) en collaboration avec le musée Van Loon, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
2018 Lauréate du Artadia Art Award (NADA Miami). Artiste en résidence, Mexico et Guadalajara, avec Studio Cur’art et PAOS.
2017/2018 Artiste en résidence, Maison Salvan, Labège, France.
2017 Artiste en résidence, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles, Belgique.
2015 Artiste en résidence, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (lauréate de la bourse de l’Institut Français).
2014/2015 Artiste en résidence, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Pays-Bas.
2013 Artiste en résidence, PROGR, Berne, Suisse.
2010/2012 Post-diplôme, China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, Chine.
2005/2010 ENSBA École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, obtention du DNSAP.
press
ARTFORUM * Summer 2019 review by Murtaza Vali ART AGENDA * February 2019 by Natasha Marie Llorens ART PRESS * December 2015 by Léa Bismuth LE QUOTIDIEN DE L’ART * 30 January 2015 by Emmanuelle Lequeux
exhibitions
Upcoming exhibitions
- The Three-Legged Cat
Istanbul Biennal
Curated by: Christine Tohmé
20 September - 23 November 2025 - The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust
Sursock Museum, Beyrouth
Curated by: Anne Davidian
25 July - 21 December 2025
Gallery exhibitions
Choses sues et oubliées
17 October - 13 December 2020
Be my Guest (1)
29 May - 28 June 2020
A Reunion with Unknown Friends
13 January - 3 March 2018
En Dormance
17 October - 21 November 2015
livres et multiples
Caroline Cros & Stefanie Gschwend
Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart / Verlag für moderne Kunst
2022
135 pages
32 €
