Under the artistic direction of Christos Savvidis and the creative coordination of ArtBOX.gr, Art Athina 2008, once again collaborated with Greek and international art professionals, in order to deliver a rich, stimulating programme of projects and events that balanced a commercial and curatorial approach. Curator Bettina Busse (Berlin) invited interesting international art galleries to exhibit sculptures and installations, […]
The exhibition Material Links, featuring contemporary Greek and Chinese artists, offers a superb opportunity to trace the elective affinities between two civilizations, both with centuries of tradition and influence on various cultural industries. What distinguishes this exhibition is the challenge of a creative cultural dialogue on the level of traditional materials and techniques applied in contemporary […]
Chen Zhen’s term ‘transexperiences’, which we have borrowed for the title of this exhibition, lends itself very well indeed to an alternative view of contemporary art production and its recent history in Greece. It allows, on the one hand, to be integrated in a global artistic framework, revealing interdependent or different experiences, dialogical relationships and […]
A group exhibition of Contemporary Greek Artists at the historic 19th century villa Kazouli surrounded by spectacular gardens and nature in the northern suburb of Kifisia. […]
A series of four large C prints on Plexiglas installed at the Aegina island Fish Market. The photographs depict images from various fish and food markets from around the world which Danae Stratou has taken during her travels. […]
The aim of the exhibition, passing from the politics of the collection to the politics of art, is to investigate, through different fields, the ways and strategies of the presented works, which explicitly or implicitly refer to political, financial and social issues and events, the political potential of contemporary art, its invention as a new […]
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 […]