The Virtuous Spiral installation consists of over a hundred handcrafted ceramic vessels arranged in a spiral formation, evoking the enigmatic Phaistos Disc and serving as a morphological and conceptual analogue. The vessels, designed by the artist and crafted by a community of artisans in Thrapsano, Crete—a place with a long-standing tradition in ceramic art—transcend their utilitarian function […]
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The Virtuous Spiral installation consists of over a hundred handcrafted ceramic vessels arranged in a spiral formation, evoking the enigmatic Phaistos Disc and serving as a morphological and conceptual analogue. The vessels, designed by the artist and crafted by a community of artisans in Thrapsano, Crete—a place with a long-standing tradition in ceramic art—transcend their utilitarian function […]
Announcement of the 2025 G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize We are delighted to announce that Danae Stratou is the winner of the 2025 G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize with her proposal Virtuous Spiral. This year’s open call invited artists from around the world working in the fields of land art, environmental and […]
This is Danae Stratou’s first solo exhibition in Athens, Greece. The project was a site-specific double installation comprising the works Breathe and Water Section installed 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 […]
COMPLETED PROJECT WATER TRACES – Making the Invisible Visible Water Traces – making the invisible visible is now available online on Danae Stratou’s website here. The artist completed the site-responsive land art project Water Traces – making the invisible visible, at The Farm Margaret River in Western Australia. The inauguration of the work took place on the 18th of November […]
Water Traces – making the invisible visible is a site-responsive land-art work inspired by underground streams and creeks which, like veins coursing under the earth’s skin, flow silently beneath our feet. In a gesture of acknowledgment of people who contemplate the interconnectedness of our planet and its consciousness, the work invites viewers to participate. In a […]
Danae Stratou, unveils major site-responsive artwork at The Farm Margaret River in Western Australia. The Farm Margaret River presents the opening event for WATER TRACES – making the invisible visible, by 2023 artist in residence, Danae Stratou (Greece) on Saturday 18 November 2023 at 15:00 for an immersive experience that includes an artist-lead talk and […]
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 […]
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Danae Stratou participated, with the installation Memory Threads II, in the international exhibition A Letter to the Future of the EKO 8 triennial, which opened 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 […]
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