AEF2025: Objects Of Common Interest

The Athens Epidaurus Festival celebrates its 70th edition in 2025, with 95 days of artistic brilliance featuring over 3,000 artists from 14 countries. From iconic venues in Athens like the Herodeion, Pireos 260, and the revived City of Athens Lycabettus Theatre, to the grand finale in Epidaurus, the festival brings the world’s top performances to Greece’s stages.

This year’s programme includes world premieres, new commissions, and exciting artistic strands such as Contemporary Ancients, which reimagines Greek tragedy, and Fierce Women in Performance, exploring gender and power. The GRAPE – Greek Agora of Performance platform highlights emerging Greek talent, while the Subset Festival brings experimental sounds to the stage. Cycles Roots revisits folk traditions with a fresh twist.

Check out our curated picks from this year's programme here.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, award-winning design studio Objects of Common Interest transforms Pireos 260 into a sculptural field of light. Elena Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis — the duo behind those dreamy, boundary-blurring installations — give Building D a luminous new skin: a constellation of glowing tubes that bend, twist and animate the night.

Formed in ever-shifting curves and loops, the installation plays with perception, materiality and motion — casting light as both object and atmosphere. It’s not just something to look at, but something to move through: a spatial gesture that draws audiences into a quiet, tactile dialogue with the architecture around them.