Danai Anesiadou


Born 1975, Pirmasens / DE


STUDIES & RESIDENCIES

Danai Anesiadou (born in 1977, in Germany, works and lives in Brussels) studied at Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Gent and at DasArts in Amsterdam.
Her work and performances have been featured at the Muhka, Antwerp (2005); de Singel, Antwerp (2007); 5th Berlin Biennial (2008); Wiels, Brussels, Etablissement d'Enface Projects, Brussels; De Kiosk, Ghent (2009), Curated By, Vienna; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Neue Aachner Kunstverein (2010). In 2010 she was guest lecturer at the Banff Center in Canada and in February 2011 she will participate in the group show "The Other Tradition" at Wiels Contemporay Art Center in Brussels and will do a year residency at the I.S.C.P. in New York.

RECENT PROJECTS 2008 – 2011

Performances

2008
“Danae Anessiadis”, a performative intervention in “Showtitle # 63 BLACK MARK” , dance choreography by Marc Vanrunxt, performed at Kaaitheater (Be), De Vooruit(Be), De Monty (Be), and Rotterdamse Beursschouwburg (NL).
“Chuck Norris Doesn’t’ Sleep, He Waits” , Anesiadou, Bryssinck
& Peeters, Something Raw Festival, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (Nl).
”A Night of Psicomagia”, 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin (D).

2009
“One Measures a Circle, Beginning Anywhere” – Unscene -, Wiels, Brussels (BE).
“Chuck Norris Doesn’t’ Sleep, He Waits”, Anesiadou, Bryssinck & Peeters, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE).
“Feelings”, “There is No(w) Romanticism”, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire , Brussels (BE).

2010
“Erst kommt das Fressen, Dann Kommt die Moral”, Lecture Performance in collaboration with Marco Bruzonne, Public School, Brussels (BE).
“Paralipomena: Portrait of a Woman”, Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
The Prompt – Kunstverein New York / Performa Festival NY, Bolzano (IT).
Collaborating “Mandagloire”, Banff Center (CA).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
“Isomosis”,”Isofix”, “Isomopolis”, Etablissement d’En Face Projects, Brussels (BE).
“I Kiss Your Ectoplasm Like I Would a Shark”, Kiosk, Ghent (BE).

2011
Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (BE)
'DAMNESIA VU, Zum Besten der Griechen', Kunsthalle Basel (CH)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
“A Performance, an Installation and a Film”, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (BE).

2009
“Seemingly Good” -Projections -Panorama, Athens, (GR)
Rooms Kappatos 2009 curated by Katerina Gregos, Athens (GR).

2010
“Mandagloire” - Curated By Vienna 2010 art&film – curated by Pierre Bismuth, Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna (AT).
Represented by Galerie Elisa Platteau, Art Brussels 2010, Brussels (BE).
Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels (BE).
Represented by Galerie Elisa Platteau, Liste, Basel( CH).
“Paraliomena” – Morality – , Rotterdam (NL).

2011
'Melanchotopia', Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

UPCOMING PROJECTS

groupshow: The Other Tradition, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (BE).
I.S.C.P. residency New York (US)