The Serpentine gallery has spawned twins, by two very different architects: One a Bangladeshi woman from Dhaka, Marina Tabassum, the other a well-known Englishman, Sir Peter Cook….
16 July 2025
A Capsule in Time by Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)
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London, UK – The Serpentine Galleries’ annual Summer Party, the capital’s most anticipated cultural soirée since its launch in 2000, marks… Read More
15 May 2025
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Although Arpita Singh’s work has been seen in the UK previously, this is the first institutional solo exhibition of her work in London.
26 March 2025
The Serpentine has announced that Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), will design… Read More
28 January 2025
The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion, aptly named “Archipelagic Void,” is set to debut on 7 June 2024. This year’s Pavilion
3 June 2024
Fifty years after The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago has a major retrospective at Serpentine North entitled Revelations. The name of the exhibition is taken from an illuminated manuscript Chicago created in the early 1970s whilst simultaneously working on The Dinner Party.
3 June 2024
The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion, Archipelagic Void, is designed by Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies.
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink.
21 April 2024
London’s Serpentine is poised to host a transformative encounter with British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s multifaceted practice in a highly-anticipated… Read More
28 February 2024
The Serpentine Galleries has announced that the esteemed Korean architect Minsuk Cho, hailing from Seoul, has been commissioned to design the 23rd Pavilion.
22 January 2024
Acclaimed American artist Barbara Kruger brings her powerful fusion of images and words to the Serpentine South in London
15 January 2024
The design of the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 emerges from architect Lina Ghotmeh’s aspiration to develop our primal relationship with the Earth into a sustainable one.
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm
In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire…
29 March 2023
Built by the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, a one-time urban planner turned artist, in collaboration with the award-winning British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, Black Chapel sits somewhere between sculpture and architecture.
11 June 2022
Black Chapel, designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates is the 21st Serpentine Pavilion. It opened today 10 June 2022.
8 June 2022
Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel draws inspiration from many of the architectural typologies that ground the artist’s practic
Tuesday - Sunday (Open Bank Holiday Mondays) 10am - 6pm
Theaster Gates’ The Black Chapel will be the 21st Serpentine Pavilion. The Chicago-based artist, along with the architectural support of… Read More
3 February 2022
20th Serpentine Pavilion Unveiled – Sarah Hardie Wins Inaugural Soho House Art Prize – Madge Gill: Nature in Mind Exhibition Announced
8 June 2021
The 20th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace, directed by Sumayya Vally, will open on 11 June 2021.
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Lord Hall National Gallery Chairman Resigns Over Diana Interview – 20th Serpentine Pavilion – Art Basel HK What The Galleries Said
23 May 2021
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba returns to the Serpentine this summer recreated in Augmented Reality by Acute Art in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries.
7 July 2020
The 2020 Serpentine Pavilion designed by the Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace will not be built this year because of the COVID19 crisis.
24 April 2020
The Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has announced a new Earth Day project in association with the Serpentine Galleries.
16 April 2020
A new exhibition of the work of Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Krefeld, Germany) has been announced for the Serpentine.
9 August 2019
The Serpentine launched their annual Pavilion this morning with a press view attended by the architect Junya Ishigami and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist.
20 June 2019
Yana Peel, the Serpentine Galleries CEO has resigned from her role, after three years, following a concerted lobbying campaign against her husband’s recent investment in NSO, a surveillance technology company.
18 June 2019
The Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, celebrated for his experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural conventions and reflect natural phenomena, has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2019.
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Marina Abramović, the iconic performance artist, presents her latest performance: The Life in Mixed Reality (a wearable augmented reality experience).
7 February 2019
What is a mastaba? Some dictionaries will tell you that the word means a bench, but more usually it’s a term used to describe an early Ancient Egyptian form of grave monument. A type that was in use even before they began to build the pyramids.
21 June 2018
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by emerging Mexican star Frida Escobedo has been unveiled to the press. The 38-year-old architect is the youngest ever designer to create the temporary showcase structure in Kensington Gardens.
11 June 2018
