Liên Hoàng-Xuân
Liên Hoàng-Xuân, an artist of Vietnamese, Tunisian and French origin, was born in Paris in 1995. Multi-disciplinary, her installations, paintings, prints and videos enable her to blend memories with a loving imagination in a fictional city she calls the “South of Nowhere”: a blend of Tunis, Saigon and Beirut.
Works
The lighting
Haiku N°27 (Sun)
Butterfly, Butterfly
A bride, an angel & a car in a flower field et sunset
Haïku n°1
Sleeping Angel, small boat, Factory, sunset
Internet heart
Haïku n°25
Haïku n°5
Haïku n°23
Haïku n°12 Autumn
Haïku n°13 Winter
Haïku n°14 Spring
Haïku n°15 Summer
Haïku N°24
Haïku N°16
Haïku n°2
Haïku n°7
Biography
“My work interrogates elegiac themes (love lament, nostalgia, etc.) through sculpture, painting and video. I use numerous referents from classical lyrical literature, love songs and sugary pop-culture clips, which I combine with superstitious symbols and visual motifs drawn from the great cities I love and where I’ve lived: Saigon, Beirut, Tunis…
“My work interrogates elegiac themes (love lament, nostalgia, etc.) through sculpture, painting and video. I use numerous referents from classical lyrical literature, love songs and sugary pop-culture clips, which I combine with superstitious symbols and visual motifs drawn from the great cities I love and where I’ve lived: Saigon, Beirut, Tunis…
This multiplicity of referents invites us to draw a parallel between the chaos of human emotional life and a wandering in an imaginary geography, an affective geography in an area I like to call the ‘South of Nowhere ‘: an immense desert bordered by the great inland sea, where monstrous, dusty and gigantic cities bloom here and there, smelling of roses and iron.”
French-Tunisian artist Liên Hoàng-Xuân was born in Paris in 1995. After two years of literary preparatory classes, she entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016, then the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts de Beyrouth (ALBA) in 2019, from which she will graduate in 2021. She obtained her DNSAP from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts de Paris in 2022, after training in the studios of Pascale Marthine Tayou and Clément Cogitore. She is also selected for the Mophradat Foundation’s “Fund the art in Beirut” grant as a member of the Beirut-based YBM collective in 2019, and is selected for the Habibi Collective’s Shasha Movies program and the Documed-Tunis, Aflemha-Cairo, Madriff and Filmets-Barcelona festivals for her short film “Last night on earth” in 2021.
Multi-disciplinary, her installations, paintings, prints and videos enable her to blend memories with a loving imagination in a fictional city she calls the “South of Nowhere”: a blend of Tunis, Saigon and Beirut.
In her work, Liên Hoàng-Xuân draws inspiration from these three cities to unfold an elegy full of motor noises, where all kinds of narratives intersect with those of oriental poetry. Her paintings, an alloy of woodcut and gold leaf, are filled with elemental motifs and texts derived from haiku-like messages sent from a distance, and can be read as sentimental trajectories in which cars embody the wanderings of a post-industrial world.
Exhibitions
Last peep show before summer
Kévin-Ademola Sangosanya, Liên Hoàng-Xuân
16/05/2024 - 20/07/2024
Space 3 bis
VIBRATIONS • Liên Hoàng-Xuân & Mathias Bensimon
Mathias Bensimon, Liên Hoàng-Xuân
11/07/2023 - 01/09/2023
Space N°4
Videos
Vidéo
Last Summer Peep Show
Career
Solo show
2025 • Eleven planets of UltraBride_OnlineDrift_Core, Galerie DS, Paris
2024 • Qasida: The impossible journey from East to West, Galerie Fahmy Malinovsky, Paris, Fr
2023 • « South of no North – just a big field of flowers »,cur : Elora Weill-Engerer, Revie Projects, Paris, Fr
Collective Exhibition (selection)
2026 • «Feux de Joie», Cur: Marianne Derrien, Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau, Fr
Journal Intime, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2025 • «L’atelier du désastre, outils, instruments et autres spectres», Cur: Andy Rankin, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Fr
Habiter la famille, Cur: Ludovic Delalande, Fondation Fiminco, Fr
“Not on my Wishlist” DS Galerie, Paris, France
Sélection d’été—À Première Vue, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Solo show
2025 • Eleven planets of UltraBride_OnlineDrift_Core, Galerie DS, Paris
2024 • Qasida: The impossible journey from East to West, Galerie Fahmy Malinovsky, Paris, Fr
2023 • « South of no North – just a big field of flowers »,cur : Elora Weill-Engerer, Revie Projects, Paris, Fr
Collective Exhibition (selection)
2026 • «Feux de Joie», Cur: Marianne Derrien, Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau, Fr
Journal Intime, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2025 • «L’atelier du désastre, outils, instruments et autres spectres», Cur: Andy Rankin, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Fr
Habiter la famille, Cur: Ludovic Delalande, Fondation Fiminco, Fr
“Not on my Wishlist” DS Galerie, Paris, France
Sélection d’été—À Première Vue, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2024 • Duo show «Last peep show before summer», Galerie Loft, Paris, Fr
«Love is everything else», Centre d’art aux images en mouvement, Corse, Fr
«Construire un feu», cur: Juliette Hage, Tour Orion Non-Etoile, Montreuil, Fr
«Amour», cur: J.Coulon, galerie Javault-Eva Pritsky, Paris
«Autohistorias», cur: M.Bouteloup et l’équipe du Théâtre des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2023 • « Joyridin’ – Humain Autonome », cur : Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer,
Salim Santa Lucia, FRAC Normandie, Caen, Fr
« 100% ! l’expo », cur : Inès Geoffroy, Grande halle de la Villette, Paris
Menart Fair, booth Revie Projects, Palais d’Iéna, Paris
Exposition de fin de résidence, cur : L.Torquéo, Villa Belleville, Paris
«Screenings» (avec A.Wheeraktakasul, A. Ingarden, M. Echard, etc.) , cur:
Mother Collective, Silencio, Paris
2022 • « Maintain », cur : Haig Aivazian, Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, Liban
L’ombre d’un doute, cur : Adrien Poirier, Galerie La Lalande, Paris, Fr
Ygreve #2, cur : Roï Edelman, Espace Ygreve, Paris, Fr
Théâtre des expositions, cur. V.Morisseau, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2021 • Asia Now Fair / Booth Galerie Lalalande, Paris, Fr
YBM#3, Fondation Mophradat, Mar Mitr, Beyrouth, Liban
« Leitmotiv », Galerie La Lalande, Paris, Fr
2020 • YBM#1, Geitawi, Beyrouth, Liban
2018 • Copie d’anciens, etc., La Volonté 93, Saint-Ouen, Fr
La cloche aux fourmis, cur : laboratoire Agit’Art, off de la Biennale de
Dakar, Ancien Marché Malien, Sénégal
DISTINCTIONS – PRIX – RESIDENCES
2026 Residency at 32 bis, Contemporary Art Center, Tunis, Tunisia
2024–2025 – One-year residency, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France
2023 Résidence de 6 mois à la villa Belleville, Paris, Fr
2022 Atelier à Ashkal Alwan, Beyrouth, Liban
2021 Sélection du court-métrage « Au dernier soir sur cette terre » aux éditions
2021 des festivals DOCUMED Tunis, MADRIFF Madrid, FILMETS Barcelone, Aflehma Le Caire, Dau-Fest Paris et dans la programmation de juillet 2021 de Shasha Movies (Habibi collective), plateforme curatoriale du cinéma indépendant de la région SWANA (South West Asia North Africa) Bourse « Fund the arts in Beirut : gatherings for uncertain futures »
2021 de la fondation Mophradat en tant que membre du collectif Yalla bala manyake basé à Beyrouth
Formation
2019 – 2021 Master of Visual arts à l’Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts de Beyrouth, Liban
2016 – 2022 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, ateliers Tayou et Cogitore
2013 – 2015 Hypokhâgne et Khâgne option Lettres Modernes, Paris
News
Liên Hoàng-Xuân is currently in residence at 32 bis, a contemporary art center in Tunis, until spring.
From October 17 to November 30, 2025, the Galerie de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts (Galerie Vivienne) presents an exhibition of works by artists in residence at the Villa Dufraine, curated by Andy Rankin. Among them, Liên Hoàng-Xuân explores light and erasure in a poetic work where the end of the world becomes a revelation.
Liên Hoàng-Xuân is one of the laureates of the Fabrique 2024/2025 Residence of the Fiminco Foundation. Ludovic Delalande, exhibition curator, will accompany the artists throughout this 11-month residency. The Residence welcomes “artists of all nationalities to allow them to develop their work and research”.
