Serving Garden invites connection — not separation. At the threshold between the art centre of REAKTOR’s garden and the adjacent construction site, a mirrored table becomes a site of encounter and negotiation, forming a bridge for dialogue. Made of polished mirror-finish steel, it reflects the sky, the surroundings, and the viewers themselves — inviting presence, conversation, and shared reflection. This table acts as a performative threshold: when unfolded toward the wasteland, it symbolically extends beyond the fence, merging two distinct zones. It becomes a silent invitation — to cross, to meet, to imagine together. If the invitation is declined, the flexible half remains upright, transforming into a vertical mirror — an image of reflection and expanded space. In this way, the work oscillates between gesture and image, between presence and absence.

Once a Heuriger under the name Etablissement Gschwandner, REAKTOR has long served as a space of gathering, celebration, and shared experience. Today, it continues this legacy through experimentation and dialogue. Serving Garden proposes to extend this spirit — beyond the cultivated garden, across the fence, into the adjacent terrain of possibility. The wasteland is not emptiness, but a latent field for new forms of community and connection. The fence, rather than a barrier, becomes a hinge — a point of fluid integration between the cultivated and the wild, between what is and what could be. Serving Garden reflects the tensions of our present moment marked by fragmentation and offers, in response, a quiet image of togetherness.

A sensual and conceptual intervention, the work invites through different events both visitors and neighbors to gather, reflect, and co-shape a shared future. An inauguration event marks the table’s first inviting gesture — not merely as a performative act, but as a collective celebration of an open space.

The table is made of prefabricated stainless steel elements that can be individually
disassembled. The table measures 8.15 m x 0.9 m x 0.9 m.