Danae Stratou
Born in Athens, Greece in 1964.
Studied Fine Arts (Sculpture), at the Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, acquiring a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1988.
Since 2007 she is Adjunct Professor at the Superior School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece (Masters of Fine Arts Degree).
Danae Stratou represented Greece in the 48th Venice Biennale (1999).
She also participated in the main programs of: The 1st Valencia Biennale (2001) in Spain, BIDA 2005, Bienal International del Deporte en el Arte (2005) in Seville | Spain; the 5th International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2006), Gyumri | Armênia, the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale (2007) in Greece.
Her latest exhibitions include: Solo exhibition ICESONGS presented at La Verriere (Fondation D’ Enterprise Hermes) in Brussels, Belgium (2010). The presentation of her project Vital Space – Istanbul at Tophane in Istanbul, (Oct- Nov, 2010). An invitation and commission by Istanbul Cultural Capital of Europe 2010, in the context of the Lives and Works in Istanbul program.
She has participated in various international exhibitions organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Athens: - in Transcultures (Athens 2004), with the video installation The River of Life, for which she followed the flow of 7 major terrestrial rivers: the Danube, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Niger, the Ganges and the Yangtze;
- in Transexperiences (Beijing 2008), with Cut – 7 Dividing lines, for which she travelled and photographed the divisions in Cyprus, Kosovo, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Kashmir, Palestine, Belfast and along the US-Mexican border.
From 1999 to date she has regularly participated in various shows in Museums and Biannual exhibitions internationally. Her works belong to Museums and private collections in Greece, France, the US, the UK and Egypt.
In Greece she is represented by Zoumboulakis Galleries were she has presented two solo exhibitions: See Through (2005) and CUT - 7 Dividing lines (2007).
She is one of the 3 partners of D.A.ST arteam, who created Desert Breath (Egypt 1997); an earthwork covering 100,000 m2, located in the eastern Egyptian Sahara bordering the Red Sea.
The main body of her work consists of large-scale outdoor and indoor installations. In her work she uses elements of nature, which she incorporates with new technologies, such as video, photography and sound thus creating audiovisual environments | installations. Through her work she aims to invoke the senses and address the inner rhythm of life and being.