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
Videos
Vidéo
Journal Intime
Vidéo
Last Summer Peep Show
Career
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Eleven Planets of UltraBride_OnlineDrift_Core, Galerie DS
2024
Qasida: The Impossible Journey from East to West, Galerie Fahmy Malinovsky
2023
South of No North – Just a Big Field of Flowers, curated by Elora Weill-Engerer, Revie Projects
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Eleven Planets of UltraBride_OnlineDrift_Core, Galerie DS
2024
Qasida: The Impossible Journey from East to West, Galerie Fahmy Malinovsky
2023
South of No North – Just a Big Field of Flowers, curated by Elora Weill-Engerer, Revie Projects
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2026
Feux de Joie, curated by Marianne Derrien, Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau
2025
Intimate Diaries, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
L’atelier du désastre, outils, instruments et autres spectres, curated by Andy Rankin, Musée des Arts et Métiers
Habiter la famille, curated by Ludovic Delalande, Fondation Fiminco
Not on My Wishlist, Galerie DS
Summer selection– À Première Vue, Galerie Loft
2024
Last Peep Show Before Summer (duo show), Galerie Loft
Love Is Everything Else, Centre d’art aux images en mouvement
Construire un feu, curated by Juliette Hage, Tour Orion Non-Étoile
Amour, curated by J. Coulon, Galerie Javault-Eva Pritsky
Autohistorias, curated by Mathilde Bouteloup and the team of the Théâtre des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts
2023
Duo show with Liên Hoàng-Xuân, Galerie Loft
100% ! l’expo, curated by Inès Geoffroy, Grande Halle de la Villette
Joyridin’ – Humain Autonome, curated by Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer, Salim Santa Lucia, FRAC Normandie, Caen
Menart Fair, duo show with Ismaël Bahrani, Palais d’Iéna
2022
Maintain, curated by Haig Aivazian and Nadim Choufi, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
L’ombre d’un doute, curated by Adrien Poirier, Galerie La Lalande
South of No North – Sun Machine, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Ygreve #2, curated by Roï Edelman, Espace Ygreve
Et pour me retenir, enlève tes souliers, curated by Violette Morisseau, Théâtre des Expositions
2021
Asia Now, booth Galerie La Lalande
YBM#3, supported by Mophradat, Beirut
Leitmotiv, Galerie La Lalande
YBM#2, Ashrafieh, Beirut
YBM#1, Geitawi, Beirut
Copie d’anciens, etc., La Volonté 93
La cloche aux fourmis, curated by Laboratoire Agit’Art, OFF Dak’Art Biennale, Senegal
Awards – Grants – Residencies
2026
Residency at 32bis – Centre d’art contemporain
2024–2025
Residency at Fondation Fiminco
2023
Six-month residency at Villa Belleville
2022
Studio residency at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2021
Au dernier soir sur cette terre (short film) selected at DOCUMED, MADRIFF, FILMETS, Aflehma, Dau-Fest, and programmed by Shasha Movies
Grant Fund the Arts in Beirut: Gatherings for Uncertain Futures by Mophradat
Member of the collective Yalla Bala Manyake, supported by Mophradat
Education
2019 – 2021
Master of Visual Arts, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut
2016 – 2022
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (studios of Pascale Marthine Tayou and Clément Cogitore)
2013 – 2015
Hypokhâgne / Khâgne (Modern Literature), Paris
News
The art space 32Bis presents “Modernity Garden”, the new exhibition by Liên Hoàng-Xuân, an immersion into a sensitive and hybrid universe where image, language, and multiple temporalities converge.
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.
