About
The RedD Gallery opened its doors the summer of 2019 in the heart of the Old Town Venetian Harbour of Chania Crete.
Specializing in contemporary art and representing a number of international artists, the gallery showcases works from a generous scope of both fresh emerging and influential renowned visual artists with a mixture of both Virtual & Physical Exhibitions throughout the year. The RedD Gallery operates within the primary market focusing on forward thinking artists, visionary creatives, and market disruptors.
In 2023 the RedD Gallery launched the RedD Art Residency Program; inviting select artist to travel to and spend time in the city of Chania in order to draw inspiration from the island of Crete and produce new works to be showcased in the gallery at a later date. Each invitation is different depending on the artist’s needs, in some cases the gallery provides artists with travel and accommodation as well as personalized experiences in the city that one could only obtain through local guidance.
In 2024 the RedD Gallery adapted it’s business model to a virtual hybrid model opening a By Appointment private office in the center of Chania that operates as a showroom, and studio allowing artists to work in and take part in the RedD Gallery Residency Program; whilst maintaining a virtual presence on leading international platforms like Artsy and collaborating with venues all over the world by producing pop up exhibitions and events.
RedD Public Relations was established in 2012 with the intent to assist creatives gain exposure within th'e media and art market. Working alongside individuals from the art industry as well as establishments such as galleries, private members clubs, international art fairs and exhibitions, restaurants, bars and clubs.
Our objective is to help our clients reach their fullest potential as well as promote their achievements and public and private events via press, social media and word of mouth.
Denia Kazakou was born in 1986 in New York City. She registered RedD Public Relations in 2012 during her final year studying Fine Arts (BA) at the UEL in East London, after completing a photography project commissioned by the 1 National Portrait Gallery for the 2012 Olympics.
During her time in London she worked in Luxury Retail, and nightlife hospitality in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, freelancing in the Art & Fashion Industry. She’s lived in NYC, Chania, London, and Berlin.
Having previously worked with many galleries and artists she decided to open the RedD Gallery in Chania Crete in June 2019, seven months before the first strict COVID lockdown took place in Greece.
In 2020 during the global pandemic her innovative Instagram LIVE #ArtFromTheQuarantine project was picked up by several publications and featured in The Art Newspaper digital and printed May issue under the section “Art & Tech”. In 2021 she was hired by The Art Gorgeous Magazine to host a series of Lives from their membership house Instagram account called ‘Beyond Art’.
Since 2012 she has visited Fairs and Produced Exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin, Paris Basil, Brussels, Zurich, Athens, Chania, Essen, and Leipzig; she has collaborated with over 100 artists and had their works featured in various publications, galleries, museums, private collections as well as TV coverage and auction houses. She is a member of the Soho House (CWH), Art She Says Collectors Club, The Art Gorgeous House, and the Centre for Excellence of Women Entrepreneurs (CEWE) representing women in business in the UK.