Dedicated to the land, to creation, vision and continuity, the exhibition Lands of Creation, is a tribute to Metsovo and highlights the diversity of creative paths and the energy of contemporary art in Greece. The exhibition features original works by 64 major Greek artists. Danae Stratou participated with a specially adapted version of her work Upon the Earth Under the […]
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The project “It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes!” is an ongoing participatory art project initiated by artist Danae Stratou who invites us to actively participate by contributing one word. By joining our “voices”, the project aims at activating a dialogue constituting, in itself, a collective response to our multifaceted predicament. By opening the ‘Black […]
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This show hosted both jewelry designers and sculptors in an effort to explore the differences and/or similarities in a unique approach of each discipline. I decided to utilize one of the museum’s walls installed with hollow showcase windows as a landscape and to “connect” them through a common horizon, in other words, a lifeline. The […]
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This a participatory art project organised in the context of Globart Academy 2016 / Realities and initiated by artist Danae Stratou. Living in Greece in a time of multiple crises, it is ever so easy to fall into a state of fear-induced paralysis. This art project was a reaction to such a prospect. The first version […]
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Women Creators of the Two Seas. Exhibition organized by Unesco in the context of the Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997. […]
Danae Stratou and Alexandra Stratou for D.A.ST. Arteam, presented this 4-channel video installation in the summer of 1999 to be shown as part of an exhibition Video Show curated by a group of Greek artists. It took place in the windows of the electrical shop district in the old commercial center of Athens (on Dragatsaniou street), […]
Art in Transition was a series of three exhibitions that combined North Carolina Artists with international artists through specific themes. CAM, transformed previously unoccupied buildings in Raleigh into temporary museum spaces for the purposes of each exhibition . The first exhibition from this series, was titled Memories of Nature. It presented the work of five artists […]
An exhibition of 51 artists with works inspired by their encounter with the region of Ioannina. The works of sculpture, figurative, abstract and geometric painting, conceptual installation, video installation and animation, wall hangings and mobiles, light boxes, and photography created a microcosmic record/presentation of the Greek contemporary art scene. As part of the exhibition Sketching […]
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Walls, real and symbolical, visible and invisible, are raised everywhere around us. They are intertwined with the geography of a place, its political identity, with its history and many of its cultural claims . Equal importance has “the geography of souls”. These walls, which are raised by the human psyche and are sometimes used as […]
