Stephanie Saeta

Stephanie Saeta is a Brazilian abstract painter living and working in Berlin. She has been painting since 2020 and left a career of more than a decade leading global marketing teams across Europe, Latin America, and Asia to become a full time artist in 2025.

She works with acrylic on unprimed cotton canvas, stretching and preparing each piece herself before a single mark is made. The fabric is chosen by hand. Its weight, weave, and the way it absorbs or resists pigment are already part of the work before she begins. She paints with diluted layers, allowing water flow, absorption, and drying time to shape the surface alongside her decisions. The material often changes the direction of the work as it develops.

Her practice has been shaped by a cancer diagnosis that changed her relationship with time, by motherhood, by years of living between cultures, and by the clarity that can emerge after a major life transition. These experiences are not painted directly, but they influence the way she approaches color, process, and scale.

Passage, her current series, was developed in her Berlin studio in 2026. Burgundy, sepia, muted greens, earth tones, and teal run through the work, creating paintings that exist somewhere between atmosphere,...

Self-taught

2026 - BAAM #11 art fair, Berlin, Germany.
2026 - Color as a Concept - Ambrose Creatives, online group exhibition.
2023 - Art Number 23, Salzburg, Austria, group show.