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 […]
Lanceurs d’alerte Group Exhibition in La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, France, 2017. Participation with the Project: It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes! Exhibition Duration: 11th – 29th January 2017 […]
“Memory Threads” is an audio-visual installation that sought, through an artistic intervention, to bring back to “life” the former Piraiki – Patraiki textile factory. The installation was realised in 2020 in the context of the wider project: Patras, the City of Factories, Rebetiko and Karagiozis. Danae Stratou created a site-specific installation in space Spinning B, […]
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 […]
The exhibition travels from Technopolis, Athens to Rethymnon, Crete. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete presents Eidyllia Odos, with works by 33 artists from Greece and abroad. The exhibition was conceived and curated by Maria Marangou.In the midst of the pandemic, the global confinement and the atmosphere of the threat of death, we try to escape thoughts […]
The project “It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes!” is an ongoing participatory art project initiated by artist Danae Stratou who invites us to actively participate by contributing one word. By joining our “voices”, the project aims at activating a dialogue constituting, in itself, a collective response to our multifaceted predicament. By opening the ‘Black […]
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This a participatory art project organised in the context of Globart Academy 2016 / Realities and initiated by artist Danae Stratou. Living in Greece in a time of multiple crises, it is ever so easy to fall into a state of fear-induced paralysis. This art project was a reaction to such a prospect. The first version […]
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Danae Stratou and Alexandra Stratou for D.A.ST. Arteam, presented this 4-channel video installation in the summer of 1999 to be shown as part of an exhibition Video Show curated by a group of Greek artists. It took place in the windows of the electrical shop district in the old commercial center of Athens (on Dragatsaniou street), […]