Zeina Moussalli, a contemporary painter, lives and works between Luxembourg and Ibiza, creating works that fuse figurative elements with abstraction to explore deep emotions and visual narratives.
Her style, characterized by vibrant colors and a balance between the real and the suggested, invites reflection and captures the viewer’s gaze.
She works primarily with oil on canvas, paying special attention to the preparation of her supports.
After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and under a Master at the Louvre, she further refined her technique alongside renowned artists.
This inspiration can be found in her “Animals” series, which explores animal expressions and behavior, questioning the boundaries between humanity and animality.
Zeina often says that the animal presents itself to the world much like a human being.
Through her seascapes and whirling dervishes, she explores the theme of still beauty drawn from movement.
Her fascination with the sea is reflected in works such as “North Sea”, “Sails”, and “Boats”, where chained vessels or fishermen’s crates symbolize the tensions between freedom and constraint, movement and stillness.
Her depictions of whirling dervishes, inspired by Sufi dance, convey spirituality and dynamism, while her abstract works release the expression of color and form, exploring new sensory dimensions.
Zeina’s technique, combining the dense materiality of oil with the precision of the palette knife, builds vibrant surfaces, charged with contained energy.
She has exhibited notably in galleries in Beirut and Luxembourg, and her works are held in several private collections.