COMPOST – Artist’s Dinner. At OGR Turin, a convivial experience between ritual gesture and artistic practice.

On Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 8:00 PM, at Snodo – the food & drink area of OGR Turin –Compost- will take place, a convivial dinner born from the dialogue between artists and chefs Luca Conte (Gerolamore) and Teresa Satta.

Halfway between performance and meal, Compost- aims to create a temporary community defined by food and by the people who consume that food together. Like a theatrical piece, the four acts of the dinner will tell stories and, through objects and games, populate the table, transforming it into a shared narrative space.

Exchange among participants is a fundamental part of the experience. The menu unfolds as a progression: from a first course meant to be eaten individually to a final dish shared collectively, moving through different degrees of sharing and proximity. Eating and tasting at the same table thus becomes a way to expand a primary transformative experience: by embracing convivial exchange, one does not seek nourishment alone, but takes part in a collective gesture—that of commensality.

Teresa Satta, photo © Gianluca Di Ioia

The gastronomic journey is shaped through the use of products in their original form alongside products transformed through fermentation and other processes of alteration, bringing culinary practices, artistic research, and shared rituality into dialogue. Its aim is to narrate the everyday nature of food as a space of encounter between ingredients, colors, and cultures.

The long table, unfolding around Snodo’s Social Table and hosting the entire work, takes the form of a constantly evolving script in which the dinner unfolds: each act evokes a theme interwoven with stories, games, objects, numbers, and symbols that emerge from the artists’ research and declare themselves on the table as tangible presences.

Portrait of Luca Gerry Conte (Gerolamore)

The artist’s dinner is part of OGR Turin’s Public Program 2026, which explores and expands the research trajectories of the exhibitions Electric Dreams. Art & Technology Before the Internet, organized by Tate Modern and OGR Turin, and We Felt a Star Dying, an immersive installation by Laure Prouvost commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and co-commissioned by OGR Turin.

Thursday, January 15, 2026, 8:00 PM

Snodo, Social Table

Corso Castelfidardo 22, Turin