Bio

Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi (b.1988, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-Lebanese visual artist based in Beirut, who grew up between Lithuania, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. Ieva studied architecture at the Lebanese American University in Byblos and École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.

Usually site-specific, her practice spans different media and addresses the spatial and political context by examining the subject’s physical and/or virtual materiality. 

Upcoming

2019 - The Place That Remains - Beit Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon - opens December 2019

2019 - Permission to Land screening at Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah, U.A.E. on December 15th

Publication (solo)

2019 - Beirut, naked city | Beyrouth, ville nue - Medawar Editions | L'Orient des Livres

Group Exhibitions

2019 - Modern and Contemporary Lebanese Art and Design - Phillips Auction House - London, UK

2019 - Revealing by SGBL - Beirut Art Fair 2019 - Beirut, Lebanon

2019 - Liban: Realites & Fictions - Institut du Monde Arabe - Paris, France

2019 - Bcc: - Vivid Projects - Birmingham, UK

2019 - Architecture of the Territory - Beit Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon

2019 - 33rd Salon d'Automne - Sursock Museum - Beirut, Lebanon

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2018 - Revealing - in collaboration with Atelier Relief (Belgium) - Beirut Art Fair 2018 - Beirut, Lebanon

2018 - The Place That Remains - Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial - Venice, Italy

2018 - Screening: Immaterial Collection II - Beirut Art Center - Beirut, Lebanon

2018 - Space Edits - Beirut Art Center - Beirut, Lebanon

2018 - One Off Image Festival - Valencia, Spain + Copenhagen, Denmark + Internet

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2017 - Berlin Experimental Film Festival - Kino Moviemento - Berlin, Germany

2017 - Beirut Noise - La Colonie - Paris, France

2017 - City Struck - Danish Architecture Centre - Copenhagen, Denmark

2017 - Videoworks 2017 - Beirut Art Center - Beirut, Lebanon

2017 - Art Interventions on Dalieh - Dalieh of Raouche - Beirut, Lebanon

2017 - Mediterranean Landscapes at Mediterranea 18 - Young Artists Biennale - Tirana, Albania

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2016 - Bejrut Bratislava - Goethe Institute - Bratislava, Slovenia

2016 - Bitassarof - National Library - Beirut, Lebanon

2016 - 7 Rooms 7 Artists - Boustany Art House - Beirut, Lebanon

2016 - Building Images - Sto Werkstatt - London, UK

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2015 - Tracce dal Limes - Festival Architettura in Citta - Turin, Italy

2015 - Based in Beirut - Beirut Design Week - Beirut, Lebanon

Publications (features)

2019 - last years' snow - Journal Safar issue IV - Beirut, Lebanon

2018 - Refugees as City Makers - AUB Press - Beirut, Lebanon

2018 - Vacuum - Columbia University Press - NYC, U.S.

Awards

2019 - ARS Arte Laguna Prize(Art Reuse Sustainability) - for Nationmetrix in collaboration with Roula Salamoun - Venice, Italy

2016 - Finalist for Premio Gabriele Basilico - Milan, Italy