An expanding series of exhibitions of interactive artworks from the National Novelty Ping Pong Table Collection
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork June – July 2024
The Depot @ The Complex, Dublin, Nov 2022
The tables makers:
Elinor O’Donovan (2024) =OO= Stephen Moynes (2023) =OO= Ella Bertilsson (2022) =OO= Liliane Puthod (2022) =OO= Conor O’Sullivan (2021) =OO= Dáire McEvoy (2019) =OO= Tanad Aaron (2018) =OO= David Lunney (2017) =OO= Prendergast & Moor (2016/22)
The King Ping Pong Tournament started in 2012. In 2016, Prendergast & Moor, the curatorial duo that began the annual event kobbled together a krazy trick table—with krap lying around Pete Prendergast’s studio—for that year’s meet to visually augment the experience. It was a hit, so every year since we have been commissioning artists to design and build an entertaining (but playable) trick/krazy table tennis tables which have never failed to delight the visiting public. Each new table is presented annually at the King Ping Pong tournament, which takes place at a different gallery every two years.
For 2022, in the huge ‘Depot’ space at the Complex art centre in Dublin city, we held the interactive exhibition Wiff Waff* is Playing at My Gaff, of all 7 krazy tables to date, which have amused (and frustrated ; ) participants and spectators since we began commissioning them. A smörgås of bords if you will.
In 2024 Dawn Williams & Co. invited us to bring the tourney & exhibition to the National Cultural Institution that is the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, featuring seven of the tables from the Collection including a new one by Elinor O’Donovan!
We have a massive debt of gratitude to all the amazing artists who produce tables for an event they dig. We love you.
National Novelty Ping Pong Table Collection
