This first version of Vital Space – Humanity was presented in Istanbul in 2010 at Tophane. This video installation has been Danae Stratou’s participation in the project Lives and Works in Istanbul, part of the central program of the Istanbul – Cultural Capital of Europe 2010 events. Danae Stratou was invited to participate by the Visual Arts Director, Beral Madra. The […]
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Part of a collection project in progress, the exhibition SonicTime, speech/sound/silence brings together fifty five works from the Museum’s collection, which focus on language, sound, music and silence as their common matrix. They are video/sound/multimedia installations, single channel video, sound sculptures, drawings, net artworks, sound cd, sound books and performances of the last four decades, which constitute […]
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This second Adelaide International exhibition, Restless, curated by Victoria Lynn for the 2012 Adelaide Festival includes the work of eighteen artists and features the five works that will premiere in Adelaide. Ten of the eighteen artists will exhibit work at the Samstag Museum. The exhibition explores the restlessness of our times. The artists seek out threshold […]
Desert Breath is a group project created by D.A.ST. Arteam, (Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, Stella Constantinides). It is an Earth Work that covers 100.000 m2, in the eastern Sahara desert bordering the Red Sea in Egypt. Its construction consists of the displacement of 8.000 m3 of sand formed so as to create precise positive and negative conical […]
This work was originally installed and shown at an old warehouse in Athens, near the docks. This is a very interesting, industrial area, which is a natural junction between the city and the sea. Both the installations Breathe and Water Section develop a dialectic relationship with the space. The one space prepares you to enter […]
See Through is a photographic installation which was exhibited at Zoumboulakis Galleries and comprises imagery derived from a ten month trip along seven major terrestrial rivers: The Danube, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Niger, the Yangtze and the Ganges. With this project, the artist aims to share an experience that enriches and deepens awareness […]
Cut – 7 dividing lines was exhibited in Athens at Zoumboulakis Galleries, in the context of, and parallel to the group exhibition Grey, hosted by the House of Cyprus in collaboration with Rethymnon Contemporary Art Centre (RCA). Participating artists were coming from both Greece and Cyprus. Cut – 7 dividing lines comprises seven pairs of photographs printed […]
Breathing Circle a site specific installation which took place at Sani Festival in Halkidiki in collaboration with the Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art. It comprised of seven, 3 Dimensional mirrored stainless steel letters placed in a circular order forming the word Breathe. The natural incline of the ground was calculated so that each letter was partly […]
Icesongs. La Verriere Fondation D’ Enterprise Hermes. Brussels, Belgium. Curator: Alice Morgaine. Icesongs was a site specific multimedia installation comprising a 20′ sound-scape, a floor piece and the the element of water. The composition derived from sounds captured by underwater water microphones existing on the seabed of the Antarctic, used by researchers for monitoring Antarctica’s […]
The River of Life is a video installation comprising seven 30’ films. It was originally created for and presented at the international exhibition Transcultures (organised by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, (EMST), Athens, Greece). The Project was presented for the second time at the Old Bath House of the Winds in Plaka. For the purposes of this show […]