Danai Anesiadou

Danai Anesiadou was in residence at LUMA Arles from September to December 2025.

Danai Anesiadou is an artist who is active in the adjoining spheres of performance, installation, collage and sculpture. She crafts theatrical settings where high and low culture dips in cinema, deep politics and metaphysics. Monumental prop-ornaments are pulled back into function as transformative sculpture: heavy jewels, up-cycled in energy and up-scaled in size. The language/energy of the work is mercurial like a puberty in Exorcism.

Her work and performances have been shown at Documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), WIELS (Brussels), EMST (Athens), Kunsthalle Basel, 5th Berlin Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris), M HKA (Antwerp), Witte de With (Rotterdam), DRAF (London), RCA (London), Etablissement d'en Face Projects (Brussels), Kiosk (Ghent), LUX/ICA Biennial (London), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Swiss Institute (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Casa Luis Barragan (Mexico DF) among others.

Danai Anesiadou works and lives in Brussels. She studied at KASK Ghent and DasArts in Amsterdam.