The images used in this video were taken by Danae Stratou during her 6 month stay in Istanbul in 2010 for the purpose of realising her project Vital Space (Humanity) – Istanbul. During her stay she regularly flew over the city by helicopter. All the images used in this video were chosen from the aerial […]
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 […]
Danae Stratou participated with the video installation The Globalising Wall at the Photonisos Arts & Culture N-P.C.S. organized by the 3rd East End – Samos Arts Festival, which will took place on the island of Samos from July 20 to September 20, 2022. The festival, was dedicated to the 100 years since the Asia Minor […]
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The project “It’s Time to Open the Balck 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 Boxes’ […]
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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), […]
Walls, real and symbolical, visible and invisible, are raised everywhere around us. They are intertwined with the geography of a place, its political identity, with its history and many of its cultural claims . Equal importance has “the geography of souls”. These walls, which are raised by the human psyche and are sometimes used as […]
The Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Matthew Barney, Natalie Yiaxi, Jorge Galindo & Santiago Sierra, Douglas Gordon, Katerina Zacharopoulou, Amar Kanwar, William Kentridge, Phanos Kyriacou, Andreas Lolis, Jenny Marketou, Kostas Bassanos, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Eleni Panouklia, Nikos Papadopoulos, Rena Papaspyrou, Rania Bellou, Pipilotti Rist, Danae Stratou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Tzanakou, Nari Ward, Maaria […]
A series of four large C prints on Plexiglas installed at the Aegina island Fish Market. The photographs depict images from various fish and food markets from around the world which Danae Stratou has taken during her travels. […]
This installation is an ongoing participatory art project 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 of the project took shape and was shown […]
Read More… from It’s Time To Open The Black Boxes! | Athens, 2012