Giuseppe Penone Thoughts in The Roots Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Serpentine Gallery
Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch Of The Mind
Since the late 1950s, Hervé Télémaque has created an expansive body of work with a unique and playful visual vocabulary, featuring abstract gestures, cartoon-like imagery, and mixed media compositions.
Tuesday - Sunday (Open Bank Holiday Mondays) 10am - 6pm
Cao Fei: Blueprints
Cao Fei is a multi-media artist and filmmaker based in Beijing. Video, digital media, photography and objects all play a role in the artist’s engagement with an age of rapid technological development.
Open 10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays. Closed on Mondays.
Albert Oehlen
A major exhibition by German artist Albert Oehlen one of the most innovative and significant artists working today.
Open daily, 10am - 6pm.
Faith Ringgold
The ground-breaking work of Faith Ringgold is celebrated in this exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, her first in a European institution.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou
The Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition by the late Swiss visionary artist, healer and researcher Emma Kunz (1892–1963) that will feature over 60 of her rarely seen drawings.
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Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris), one of the world’s leading conceptual artists known for creating complex immersive ecosystems, presents a major new exhibition at the Serpentine.
Open daily 10am - 6pm
Tomma Abts: A Delicate Dance Of Colours And Shapes – Edward Lucie-Smith
The show at the Serpentine Sackler marks another step forward in reputation for this German-born but British-resident painter, who has lived and worked in London since 1995, and who won the Turner Prize in 2006.
24 July 2018
Christo Launches Mastaba His First UK Public Artwork
To coincide with a new exhibition of Christo and Jeanne Claude, at the Serpentine Gallery, the 83 year old artist has launched his amazing London Mastaba, a temporary sculpture in Hyde Park
18 June 2018
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
FREE – This summer, in the heart of London, the Serpentine Galleries presents a major exhibition of the artists’ work, which draws upon their use of barrels to create artworks. Simultaneously, Christo will present The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine lake.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
Ian Cheng
Ian Cheng (b. 1984, USA) explores the nature of mutation and the capacity of humans to relate to change.
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Rose Wylie: Forget Age And Gender The Message Is The Painting – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rose Wylie is 83 years old. Her rise to fame has been fairly meteoric. Ten years ago few had heard of her, either in this, her native country, or abroad.
1 December 2017
Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged
American artist Wade Guyton uses digital technologies – iPhones, cameras, computers and consumer-grade Epson printers – as tools to create both large-scale paintings on linen and smaller compositions on paper.
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones Appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones the former co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, for over 25 years, has been appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Peyton-Jones will take on her ambassadorial and curatorial role on 1 September 2017, and will be based in London, where the gallery opened a new space in Mayfair earlier this year.
25 June 2017
Grayson Perry Climbing The Populist Mountain Serpentine Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Grayson Perry show that just opened at the Serpentine Gallery offers both a very new version of now-obligatory populism in the promotion of contemporary visual art and at the same time, a sly critique of it.
8 June 2017
Grayson Perry Unveils Brexit Vases Ahead of Serpentine Exhibition Extravaganza
The gender fluid potter Grayson Perry has unveiled The Brexit Vases his latest artwork ahead of his show at the Serpentine Gallery which opens later this week.
5 June 2017
Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!
This summer Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, will present a major exhibition of new work. The works will touch on many themes including popularity and art, masculinity and the current cultural landscape.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays
Grayson Perry Presents Major Exhibition Of New Works At The Serpentine
British artist Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture is to present a major exhibition of new work at the Serpentine Gallery in June. The works in the show will touch on many themes including popularity and art, masculinity and the current cultural landscape.
7 April 2017
Zaha Hadid Paintings and Drawings Exhibition Opens At London’s Serpentine Gallery
The Late Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid is honoured with a new solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at London’s Serpentine Gallery. Hadid is regarded as a pioneering and visionary architect whose contribution to the world of architecture was ground-breaking and innovative.
12 December 2016
Paul Black Reviews Michael Craig-Martin’s Reductive Cool At The Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine is currently presenting an exhibition by Michael Craig-Martin; the first solo show of the artist’s work in a… Read More
29 November 2015
Michael Craig-Martin: Transience Opens At The Serpentine Gallery
Today the Serpentine opens an exhibition by Michael Craig-Martin. This is the first solo show of the artist’s work in… Read More
25 November 2015
Michael Craig-Martin Exhibition Transience To Open At Serpentine Gallery
This winter, the Serpentine presents an exhibition by Michael Craig-Martin (b.Dublin, 1941), one of the best-known British artists of his… Read More
7 October 2015
Duane Hanson: Realist Sculpture Retrospective To Open At Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine presents the work of late American sculptor Duane Hanson in his first survey show in London since 1997…. Read More
29 May 2015
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk To Open At Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Gallery presents Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk. The artist was born 1977, London, Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings depict figures… Read More
26 May 2015
Frieze Alternative Returns To London 2014
‘The Other Art Fair’, the artist-led fair, is in its seventh edition this October. Returning to East London’s Old Truman… Read More
16 September 2014
Manipulated By Marina Abramovic: Immersive Performance Piece Creates Collective Response
I am dispersing with the usual third person format in summarising Marina Abramović’s residence at the Serpentine, this being an… Read More
18 June 2014
Marina Abramovic Descends On London Please Switch Off All Mobile Devices
Marina Abramović has taken over the Serpentine Gallery to present a unique work. The globally acclaimed artist began her performance… Read More
10 June 2014
Marina Abramovic Presents 512 Hours An Unique Serpentine Gallery Performance Piece
Marina Abramović will be presenting an unique new work at the Serpentine Gallery in London in June. The internationally acclaimed… Read More
16 May 2014
American Artist Haim Steinbach: New Serpentine Gallery Spring Exhibition
Haim Steinbach: Once again the world is flat is a new exhibition presented at the at the Serpentine Gallery this… Read More
8 February 2014
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Birth, Death, Sex, Horror And McDonald’s
“we are sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons… disenfranchised aristocrats, under siege from our feudal heritage…our bread is buttered on both sides…” this… Read More
9 January 2014
Zaha Hadid’s Sackler Gallery At Serpentine To Open In September
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery a former 1805 gunpowder store, located five minutes walk from the Serpentine Gallery on the north… Read More
31 July 2013
POOL Encourages Emerging Curatorial Talent With New Exhibition
POOL, an innovative new programme drawing on a ‘pool’ of works from private collections in order to develop and encourage… Read More
21 May 2013