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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Danae Stratou participated in the contemporary art exhibition Eidyllia Odos in Technopolis City of Athens with the installation Upon the Earth Under the Clouds. The exhibition featured works by 33 artists from Greece and abroad, and was based on an idea conceived and curated by Maria Marangou. Upon the Earth Under the Clouds * is […]