Danai Anesiadou

Danai Anesiadou (b. 1975, Pirmasens, Germany) is a Belgian artist of Greek origin based in Brussels. She studied at KASK in Ghent and at DasArts in Amsterdam. Working across performance, installation, collage, and sculpture, she crafts theatrical settings where ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture draw on cinema, politics, and metaphysics. Monumental prop-ornaments are pulled back into function as transformative sculpture. Developed over the past fifteen years, her body of work unfolds as an expansive allegory in action. Rumor, mystery, evocation, and the intimacy of secrets are the centrifugal forces from which Anesiadou’s entire oeuvre develops. Her work and performances have been presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2023); WIELS, Brussels (2023, 2011); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2020); Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City (2019); documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Kunsthalle Wien (2013); LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Image, London (2012); Kunsthalle Basel (2011); Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2011); DRAF, London (2011); 5th Berlin Biennale (2008); and MuHKA, Antwerp (2008). She has been in residence at Fogo Island Arts (2012) and ISCP, New York (2011).