Artist Research - Danae Stratou - Visual Artist
Visual Artist Danae Stratou was born 1964, Athens, Greece and still to this day lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Employers - Stratou is an adjunct professor at the Superior School of Fine Arts (Athens) Athens, Greece and has a Masters of Fine Arts Degree.
Grad School -Central Saint Martins Class of 1988 · BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture · Art installations
High School - Moraitis School Class of 1982 · Athens, Greece
Danae Stratou is one of the 3 partners of the collective D.A.ST. Arteam, who created the work 'Desert Breath' - Egypt, 1997; which is an Earthwork covering an area of 100,000 m2, situated in the eastern Egyptian Sahara and borders the Red Sea.
In the 48th Venice Biennale -1999, Stratou represented Greece as well as in the 1st Valencia Biennale held in 2001.
Danae Stratou has participated in a variety of international exhibitions that were organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Athens:
· The Transcultures Exhibition held in Athens, 2004 featured her video installation 'The River of Life', for which she tracked the flow of the 7 major terrestrial rivers: The Ganges, the Niger, the Yangtze, the Amazon, the Danube, the Nile and the Mississippi.
· In the Transexpiriences Exhibition held in Beijing-2008, Statou showed her work 'Cut–7 dividing lines', for this work she travelled and photographed the ever present divisions in Cyprus, Kosovo, Belfast, Palestine, Kashmir, Ethiopia-Eritrea and along the US-Mexican border.
The Zoumboulakis Galleries held solo exhibitions of Stratou's work 'See through'-2005 and 'CUT - 7 dividing lines' - 2007 in Athens.
Stratou has regularly participated in a variety of shows held in Museums and Biannual exhibitions internationally since 1999 to the present date. The works of Stratou belong to either private collection or Museums in Greece, France, the US, the UK and Egypt.
Danae Stratou has been part of "Vital Space" organization since 2010 up until now, the present day. Vital Space is built upon the belief that art has the power to change the world. It's premise revolves around two main axes being:
· the creation and production of visual artworks.
· the ability to reach and influence a wide and diverse audience by the initiation of research programs, conferences, publications and the formation of educational and media products.
Vital Space was founded by artist Danae Stratou and economist Yanis Varoufakis in 2010 and is a non-profit organization.
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