Big Table → Common Ground — Collective exhibition
Friday October 3, 18:00 ─ 22:00
The previous dwellers of the space left behind a big and black table, etched with star maps. Since we moved in, more tables have joined the party. Drawing inspiration from our day-to-day relationship with those common objects we decided to launch an open call inviting artists and creatives to take part in this ongoing story by sharing the same “Common Ground.”
To shape this exhibition, we invited two independent curators and creatives, Simone Niarou and Christina Petkopoulou, to form an independent selection jury and curate their public program. For the first two weeks of October Big Table will host a group exhibition and a public program full of activities, performances, workshops and lectures.
The works presented here dare to look under the table, explore the fragility and softness of a once stable and solid object, tracing its origin and the one of those who once gathered at it. The table translates common practices into opportunities to untangle the urban ecosystem, inviting us to grow as a communal organism and social form that produces new meanings and directions amid disorientation.
Exhibition Participants: Sol de Caso, Laura Alcalde & Laura Cadena, Camille Cornillon, Maria Georgoula, Athanasios Kanakis, Rallou Karella & Seta Astreou - Karides, Katerina Moschou, Nadia Nika & Christina Antzoulatou, Myriam Rey, Elektra Stampoulou, Nicolas Vamvouklis
Public Program Participants
03.10.25, 18:00 - 22:00, Live Acts: Maria Georgoula, Elektra Stampoulou, Turion Radio, Nicolas Vamvouklis
04.10.25, 18:00 - 20:00, Collective writing workshop: Christina Reinhardt
11.10.25, 18:00 - 22:00, Live Acts: Marilena Aligizaki & Vicky Tsirou, Alexandre Collet & Naya Magaliou, Markellos Kolofotias, Turion Radio
Organised and curated by Big Table
Artists Selection & Curatorial Input by Simone Niarou & Christina Petkopoulou
Curatorial Text by Simone Niarou
Aghiou Orous 25, 104 47, Metaxourgheio
Open in Maps
Big Table was born in December 2022 and has since evolved into a multiform, collective, artist-run space. Most of the time it functions as a studio, a shared work space, crowded with tables of various sizes (rather big) supporting a mix of practices. Sometimes the tables are crammed in a corner. Once free, its 200m2 baby blue floor turns into an event space for live performances, screenings, exhibitions, dinners or parties. True to its name, Big Table merges time and space. It fosters collaboration, supports ideas and desires, and —like any table—invites others in, creating circularity and a sense of community