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 […]
Desert Breath is a Land Art project created by D.A.ST. Arteam. The team was founded in 1995 by: Danae Stratou (installation artist & sculptor), Alexandra Stratou (industrial designer & architect), Stella Konstantinidis (architect), for the purpose of creating this project. The project is rooted in our common desire to work in the desert. In our […]
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 […]
AUCTION PARTICIPATION Artists for DiEM25 I am proud to be among an amazing group of artists who are donating work to support the grassroots Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. We are delighted to launch DiEM25´s online auction in partnership with paddle8, Artists for DiEM25, raising funds for DiEM25’s historic campaign to bring democracy and humanity back to Europe. Across […]
Concentric is a kinetic water installation by Danae Stratou. This is the 1st edition of the work as a permanent installation located at Nirox Sculpture Park. The lake in which it is situated is approximately 100 metres in diameter and about 2 metres in depth at the central point. Concentric utilises a simple, underwater device […]
Upon entering the space, a primal songlike sound attacks the senses. At first it resembles electronic music; or some mysterious voice, like that of whales. It is the sound of icebergs edges, as they move, break, melt or collide against each other. A square, shallow water tank, located centrally in the space, is fully filled. […]
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. […]
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, […]
“Deep within the ground there are caverns and tunnels and ways for the sacred energy to travel. Earth inhales and exhales just as we do; sacred life energy moves within her body as it does in ours.” Hopi Indians “Deep within the ground there are caverns and tunnels and ways for the sacred energy to […]