The first exhibition, entitled Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp that inaugurated the temporary exhibition spaces of EMST simultaneously with the Program EMST in the World, is a coproduction of EMST and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). The exhibition was inaugurated on October 31, 2016 and will last until February 05, 2017, essentially restarting the temporary […]
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Icesongs. La Verriere Fondation D’ Enterprise Hermes. Brussels, Belgium. Curator: Alice Morgaine. Icesongs was a site specific multimedia installation comprising a 20′ sound-scape, a floor piece and the the element of water. The composition derived from sounds captured by underwater water microphones existing on the seabed of the Antarctic, used by researchers for monitoring Antarctica’s […]
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 […]
ICESONGS2 comprises a video & sound work which emerged from the site-specific installation ICESONGS created by Danae Stratou and presented at La Verriere, the exhibition space of the Fondation d’ Enterprise Hermes, in Brussels in 2010. The most powerful element of the project was the astounding soundscape which had generated from sounds coming directly from the Antarctic Ocean […]
Concentric Art Video by Danae Stratou was produced by re-editing 6 short documentation videos depicting the kinetic water installation Concentric at Nirox Sculpture Park from dawn to dusk. The site-specific long-term installation is located in a 90-metre-diameter lake at Nirox Sculpture Park in Krugersdorp, South Africa since January 2019. […]
The Video work is based on the site specific installation Memory Threads by Danae Stratou which was 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 […]
The video work aims at capturing the experience and the essence of the ephemeral site-specific installation Upon the Earth Under the Clouds as one walked through it. 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 […]
A river generates life in the land it travels through… The River of Life is a video installation comprising seven 30’ films simultaneously projected in a specially constructed circular space of 26ft Diameter. Commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture as an acquisition for the permanent collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, […]
Vital Space – Istanbul is a video installation comprising two films from the city of Istanbul. One film offers a bird eye’s view of different paths connecting order and disorder, centre and suburb, privilege and dispossession, formal and informal. The second film captures from ground level a sea of people coming toward the camera in sequences […]