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Grey | Rethymnon, 2007
Work Category: Photography
Water / Currents | Thessaloniki, 2008
This exhibition included different currents of photography as they were expressed through the works of Prix Pictet, as well as projects by artists from Greece and abroad. One part of the exhibition included photographs from the short listed artists of the Pictet award and presented the issue of sustainability, the social and environmental dimension which […]
Staging the Domestic | London, 2014
Curator Anna Chatzinassiou and “Salon de Bricolage” (Athens), presented a group exhibition of Greek artists at “The Hospital Club” in London. The term “domestic” is used in this exhibition with its dual meaning, indicating both the home and the native. The title could thus be interpreted both as “installing artwork within a domestic environment” and as […]
Borders, Barriers, Walls | Melbourne, 2016
The exhibition was entitled Borders, Barriers, Walls and indeed, borders, barriers and walls delineated this project that included artists from around the world. It reflected on how these selectively impervious, contested or convoluted forms shape the world, producing situations of separation, isolation or thwarted passage across the globe, from the exile of Tasmanian Indigenous peoples to the islands of […]
Retrospection, Action Field Kodra | Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017
The important visual arts festival of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Action Field Kodra 2017, titled “Retrospection” opened on Friday, the 22nd of September 2017, at the Dorms building, in the ex-military camp Kodra. This year’s exhibition was open with the Mayor’s, Mr. Theodosis Mpakoglidis, speech. The festival celebrated 17 years of existence and was a […]
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Reflections of Origin | Dordrecht, 2016
“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” Michel de Montaigne Flowers symbolise the opposite of force. Flower power was, in the 1960s, a rejoinder to killing fields. A flower placed in the barrel of a gun renders the weapon benign. Blooms are the […]
48th Venice Biennale | Venice, 1999
The work was created for, and presented in the Greek Pavilion, at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. It is comprised of a perpendicular video projection which only becomes visible through the openings of 936 square sectioned aluminium tubes (10cm X 10cm X 3.30m), placed next to and above each other, creating a cube which […]
Open Places | Aegina, 2010
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. […]
Merimbula
Merimbula 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 May […]
Newsletter #14
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 […]