DANAE IO

Visual arts

DANAE IO

Danae Io is an artist living and working in Athens and Rotterdam. Through video, sound, and text, her work addresses various methods through which language becomes actively involved in systematizing and codifying sociopolitical infrastructures. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and has previously studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a co-founder of the research project System of Systems and co-organises the research initiative Schemas of Uncertainty. Her writing has been published by Sternberg Press (Berlin), Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Portugal) and Contra Journal. Her work has been exhibited at Kunstverein (Amsterdam); Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam); Sub Rosa Space (Athens); Grace (Athens); Stroom Den Haag (The Hague); Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose (Amsterdam); Display (Prague); and SESI-SP gallery of Art (São Paulo), among others. She is a tutor at the Critical Inquiry Lab Master’s programme of the Design Academy Eindhoven. She has collaborated with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Greece; the Arts Catalyst organization in London; the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam; the State of Concept contemporary art institution in Athens; and the bookshop San Serriffe in Amsterdam, among others. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

I Hold My Tongue, 2020

I Hold My Tongue, 2020

Speaker 4, 2017

Speaker 4, 2017

The Lips The Lisp The Slip of The Tongue, 2018

The Lips The Lisp The Slip of The Tongue, 2018

The Lips The Lisp The Slip of The Tongue, 2018

The Lips The Lisp The Slip of The Tongue, 2018

The Variabilities of the Erhotics, 2018

The Variabilities of the Erhotics, 2018