Sandra Zeenni
(1970-)

Sandra Zeenni is a sculptor who has lived and worked in Paris, for 25 years. She spent her early childhood in Lebanon, a country with which she still maintains a strong bond.  Her work can be found in several public collections in France and Japan.

Gallery Capazza has shown Sandra Zeenni’s work for over 17 years. In 2025, it celebrates its 50th anniversary with ‘Aequilibrium‘, an exhibition of various artists works including Sandra Zeenni’s. Along with other contemporary artists, she also has a sculpture in the ‘Ceramics from Picasso to the Present Day‘ exhibition at the Galerie de la Béraudière in Brussels. Last year, Gallery Capazza exhibited Sandra Zeenni’s sculptures at the Liuli China Museum in Shanghai. In France, her work was included in Capazza’s ‘Horizons’ show and her gold matt bronze sculpture ‘Cer‘ was shown in the autumn. In Paris, the 1831 Art Gallery showed her work in the ‘Résonances’ exhibition. In New York, the Liz O’Brien gallery presented her sculptures at the Armory Salon Art & Design. 

Completed and installed in 2023, Sandra Zeenni’s bronze sculpture Dao is part of the French Ministry of Culture’s program ‘1 immeuble, 1 oeuvre’. Measuring 1,80 m (5.9 ft) high, the sculpture is installed outdoors in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Her latest contributions include public exhibitions at the Palais Jacques Coeur in Bourges in 2022, the Musées de Bourges and Vierzon in 2020, the Hôtel Gouïn in Tours in 2019 to mark the 500^th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, the Musée de Sarreguemines in 2015, and at the Musée National Adrien Dubouché in Limoges and the Villa Empain (Boghossian Foundation) in Brussels in 2014. In 2022, the Liz O’Brien Gallery presented her sculptures at the Armory Salon Art & Design in New York. The Gallery Capazza first exhibited her bronze sculpture entitled Myn, at Antica Namur, in Belgium. In 2020, as part of the “Georges Jeanclos – Auguste Rodin: Shape the Living” exhibition, hosted by the Galerie Capazza in partnership with the Musée Rodin, her sculptures were exhibited in Nançay and Azay-le-Rideau as well as in two museums. In 2015, her works were represented by the Collection Gallery at the Collect International Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London, In 2016, the Capazza Gallery dedicated a solo exhibition of her work. In 2017 and 2018, the Liz O’Brien Gallery displayed her sculptures at the Armory Salon Art & Design in New York.

“Sandra Zeenni’s latest sculptures touch upon the expressionist works of Rodin. They give rise to organic forms which are often de-eroticised, interacting and interlinking like mutant creatures generated by rhizomic growth. They toy with the element of surprise produced by the series of contradictory points of view. The discord between the forms (crevices, lumps, cavities …) and her mastery of the material accentuates these anomalies and the fantastical nature of her works.” XdR