Through her practice, Saeed gave voice to the natural world and questioned the status quo of interspecies relationships that have become increasingly reinforced through the Anthropocene – with animals treated as subservient or inferior to humans and, often, relegated to mere tools to be exploited. With her sculptures, reliefs, drawings and videos, Saeed asked us to reconsider how we see animals, and how we live together with them and the planet more broadly. Filled not only with radical empathy …
Through her practice, Saeed gave voice to the natural world and questioned the status quo of interspecies relationships that have become increasingly reinforced through the Anthropocene – with animals treated as subservient or inferior to humans and, often, relegated to mere tools to be exploited. With her sculptures, reliefs, drawings and videos, Saeed asked us to reconsider how we see animals, and how we live together with them and the planet more broadly. Filled not only with radical empathy and hope, but also humour, the works in Séance continue to advocate for an alternative – and possible – form of coexistence between humans and animals, whether now or in a future beyond Saeed’s lifetime or our own.
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Lin May Saeed (born in Würzburg, 1973; died in Berlin, 2023) lived and worked in Berlin.
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern (2026); GAMeC, Bergamo (2024); Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre (2025); Berlin (2023); Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (2020) and Studio Voltaire, London (2018).
Significant group exhibitions include those at K21, Düsseldorf; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; and LE CRÉDAC, Ivry- sur-Seine (all 2025); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp; Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (all 2021); Aspen Art Museum (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); mumok, Vienna; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (both 2018); and Bergen Kunsthall (2014). The artist also participated in Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024) and the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2016).
Saeed’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; the National Museum of Art, Oslo; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany; Landesbank Hessen- Thüringen, Frankfurt; and Fondazione CRC, Cuneo.
