collab. Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi

Address

Gemmayzeh, Gouraud street, close by Paul, Beirut, Lebanon
in collaboration with Ed. Zakhia & Co

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+96176497453 +33644997385

Ieva Saudargaite Douaihi (b.1988) is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, architecture, and material research.

Rooted in an ongoing exploration of vernacular landscapes, memory, and overlooked ecologies, her practice spans image-making, spatial interventions, and hybrid objects composed of found objects, natural matter and household materials. Drawing on her background in architecture and a deep sensitivity to ecological and social entanglements, she engages with overlooked spaces and slow processes of growth, decay, and adaptation.

Through layered relationships between nature, memory, and the built environment, Douaihi explores how spaces carry histories, absences, and the potential for renewal. Her work gives form to questions of permanence, access, and belonging—unfolding as quiet gestures that trace the ways in which people and places shape, resist, or intertwine with one another.

Douaihi studied architecture at the Lebanese American University in Byblos and École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris; she grew up between Lithuania, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. In 2021, she co-founded Digital Fountain, an online platform for photography from Lebanon. In 2022, she established Takeover, an artist-led project space in Beirut. She is also a member of the Lebanese photography collective Collectif 1200.

See the works

Exhibitions & Awards

SELECTED AWARDS

2021

Fondation Boghossian Prize for Photography, Brussels, Belgium

2019
ARS Prize in collaboration with Roula Salamoun – Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy

2017

Best Experimental Documentary – Berlin Experimental Film Festival

SOLO SHOW

2025

UNDERGROWTH, no/mad utopia, Beirut, Lebanon

2020
SAD SUN, La Vitrine with Beirut Art Residency, Beirut, Lebanon

SELECTED COLLECTIVE SHOWS

2025

OF TIME , Akhso Gallery, Brooklyn, USA

2023

Le Liban n’a pas d’âge, Bibliothèque Orientale, Beirut, Lebanon

2022

Anatomy of a Fall, Abroyan Factory x British Council, Beirut, Lebanon

Do you feel like in a hurricane eye?, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania

Stillness in the Fall, Hammana Artist House, Hammana, Lebanon

5th – Les Femmes S`Exposent, Houlgate and Gare St. Lazare, Paris, France

Echoes from a Crowded Room, Artlab, Beirut, Lebanon

2021

Lost in the right direction, Art Design Lebanon, Deir el Qalaa, Lebanon

Stillness in the Fall, La Fabrique POLA, Bordeaux, France

Lumières du Liban, L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France

2020

Fundraiser: Architects for Beirut, Design Miami, Miami, USA

Lebanon Then and Now, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA

2019

Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

Bcc: by Decoy Magazine, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK

Architecture of the Territory, Beit Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

2018

The Place That Remains, Lebanese Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

Space Edits, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

2017

Beirut Noise, La Colonie, Paris, France

City Struck, Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Video works, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Art interventions on Dalieh, Dalieh of Raouche, Beirut, Lebanon

2016

Bitassarof, National Library, Beirut, Lebanon

7 rooms 7 artists, Boustany Art House, Beirut, Lebanon

Building Images, Sto Werkstatt, London, UK

FAIRS & BIENNALES

2024

Luxembourg Art Week, with no/mad utopia gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

SWAB Art Fair, with Takeover, Barcelona, Spain

2023

Bienal Fotografia do Porto, In Light or Shadow of What Was and Still Is, Porto, Portugal

2022

Photo Espana, In Light or Shadow of What Was…, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain

2019

BEIRUT ART FAIR, Revealing by SGBL, curated by Rachel Dedman, Beirut, Lebanon

3è Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, Liban, Réalités et Fictions, L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France

37th Salon d’Automne, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

2017

Mediterranea 18, Young Artists Biennale, Mediterranean Landscapes, Tirana, Albania

GRANTS

2021

The Last Garden, Arab Documentary Photography Program (AFAC), Prince Claus Fund and Magnum Foundation

2020

Afternoon Visit, a project production grant for Aikštėje by Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius, Lithuania

2017

Video Works, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

RESIDENCIES

2024

Artist Residency at Photoforum Pasquart, with the support of ProHelvetia Cairo, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Artist Residency at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2023

Artist Residency at Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium

2022

Photo Residency, Festival LES FEMMES S’EXPOSENT, Houlgate, France

2016

La ville ouverte: Mediterranean Landscapes curated by Giuditta Nelli and Marco Trulli in collaboration with A-POIS, Pelagica and Mediterranea 18,Young Artists’ Biennale, Viterbo, Italy and Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ras Masqa Artist Residency, curated by Temporary Art Platform in collaboration with APEAL, Ras Masqa, Lebanon