Photonisos Arts & Culture N-P.C.S. organizes the 3rd East End – Samos Arts Festival, which will take place on the island of Samos from July 20 to September 20, 2022. This year’s festival, which is dedicated to the 100 years since the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922, will be held in selected areas of the […]
Burning Issues was originally presented in the context of Danae Stratou’s solo show titled Burning Issues – Merimbula. Curated by Christoforos Marinos and organised by the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organisation (OPANDA), the show was hosted at The City of Athens Art Centre, in Parko Eleftherias (Freedom Park), Athens, Greece from 25 […]
Marking the opening of the Aeschylia Festival, the installation was presented at the Old Oil Mill of Eleusis from June – November 2017. Upon the Earth Under the Clouds is a large-scale site-specific installation conceived for the Old Mill and the city of Eleusis. Using water and soil as its core materials and ceramic pots […]
A site specific installation by Danae Stratou, realised in one of the old textile factories of PIRAÏKI – PATRAÏKI in Patras, in the context of the wider project: “Patras, the city of factories, Rebetiko and Karagiozis”. This ephemeral installation was realised in an old derelict and hollowed out spinning mill factory within the larger (and […]
Desert Breath is a Land Art project created by D.A.ST. Arteam. The team was founded in 1995 by: Danae Stratou (installation artist & sculptor), Alexandra Stratou (industrial designer & architect), Stella Konstantinidis (architect), for the purpose of creating this project. The project is rooted in our common desire to work in the desert. In our […]
UPCOMING SHOW FLOWERS GREECE – HOLLAND On the occasion of the upcoming show FLOWERS, I am pleased to announce my new collaboration with Kappatos Gallery In the context of this work, Danae Stratou photographs flowers in Greece and flowers in the Netherlands. Flowers symbolise the opposite of force. Flower power was, in the 1960s, a rejoinder to killing fields. A […]
Danae Stratou participated, with the installation Memory Threads, in the international exhibition A Letter to the Future of the EKO 8 triennial, which openned on 21 May 2021. The venue of the exhibition was the former textile factory in Melje, Maribor, Slovenia. Artistic Director: Alessandro Vincentelli. This site-specific installation is based on the first version of the installation Memory Threads which took place […]
Concentric is a kinetic water installation by Danae Stratou. This is the 1st edition of the work as a permanent installation located at Nirox Sculpture Park. The lake in which it is situated is approximately 100 metres in diameter and about 2 metres in depth at the central point. Concentric utilises a simple, underwater device […]
UPCOMING EVENT “Here and Now: A Creative Vision for Europe” On October 10th, “Here and Now: A Creative Vision for Europe” will bring Brian Eno, Srećko Horvat, Danae Stratou, Bobby Gillespie, Rosemary Bechler and Yanis Varoufakis together at the Platform Theatre of Central Saint Martins to consider the role of culture in the fight for the future of Europe. With a range […]
Upon entering the space, a primal songlike sound attacks the senses. At first it resembles electronic music; or some mysterious voice, like that of whales. It is the sound of icebergs edges, as they move, break, melt or collide against each other. A square, shallow water tank, located centrally in the space, is fully filled. […]