PARALLEL CITY was shown in Athens during the Olympic Games in August 2004. It participated in the exhibition ATHINA BY ART, a large scale exhibition which took place in the wider central area of old Athens and which was commissioned by the Municipality of the city of Athens and curated by AICA. It is a site specific, interactive […]
The exhibition under the title Transcultures, with which the National Museum of Contemporary Art participates in the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, has been conceived, from the very beginning, as a collection project as well. The idea was to address a considerable number of international artists originating equally from metropolitan centers and peripheries, and through commissions of […]
This international Biennial will be held for the first time outside Spain and the works will be displayed in the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art and the Kautanzogleio National Stadium in Thessaloniki. At the end of the exhibition the works will be transported to Seville in Spain to be exhibited in November (2005) at the […]
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Within the context of “Nuit Blanche 2006” festival, organized in Paris for the 5th time, Danae Stratou is presenting an especially edited video under the title “The River of Life” with the support of Zoumboulakis Galleries. On the night of October 7, from 8:30pm until 4:30am, videos by 32 artists from allover the world will […]
The exhibition SCARECROW took place in an old vineyard in the north of Greece at the foot of St. Nichola’s monastery in Metsovo in June 2006. Danae’s work in this international show was entitled INTROSPEC. A site specific out door installation comprising a 15 meter long path that was dug into the steep side of the hill shadowed by […]
ZONE D present its inaugurating exhibition entitled “Places in ZONE D”. The space selected is Thission Lofts on Pireos Street, an industrial building, opposite Gazi. The starting exhibition of ZONE D brings together three women artists, Sophia Petrides, Danae Stratou and Evanthia Tsantila, who have been recognized internationally through their participation in important exhibitions and stand at a […]
The 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, entitled “Heterotopias”, organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art with the support of the Ministry of Culture from May 21 until September 30, 2007. The title is borrowed from Michel Foucault’s lecture on real spaces-islands where man follows a certain set of rules, which distract him from his daily functions. […]
Bare Life is the third in a series of exhibitions on themes of human rights that we are presenting at the Museum. This exhibition aims to touch upon the increasingly unraveling seam between deviant states and normative states, and to point resolutely at the place where the temporary emergency situation turns into a legitimized ongoing situation […]
PARALLEL CITY II is a site specific, interactive installation, which consists of 28 «optical viewfinders». Planted equivalently in 28 different spots of the city’s old center, the viewfinders, act as intimate private frames through which the viewer can accomplish a different experience of the City. The viewing through the viewfinders along the chosen route, isolates […]
