Art and ideas for a changing world. Free exhibitions across two art galleries and the Pavilion. All groups must book in advance with the visitor experience team.
The Serpentine is one of London’s best-loved galleries for modern and contemporary art. They attract up to 800,000 visitors in any one year and admission is free. In the grounds of the Galleries is a permanent work by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, dedicated to the Serpentine’s former Patron Diana, Princess of Wales. The work comprises eight benches, a tree-plaque, and a carved stone circle
at the Gallery’s entrance. In September 2013, Serpentine Galleries opened its new space, the Serpentine North Gallery. This innovative arts venue for the 21st century is housed in the Grade II-listed building formerly known as The Magazine, situated in Kensington Gardens. In 2016 the Serpentine Pavilion programme expanded to include four Summer Houses in a group show of architecture in the built form. The Serpentine, in association with Bloomberg Philanthropies, has also opened the Build Your Own Pavilion Challenge, a competition for 8-14 year olds to design and enter their Pavilion models. For more information http://buildyourownpavilion.serpentinegalleries.org/
Getting here
Serpentine South Gallery
Nearest tube stations: Lancaster Gate, Knightsbridge or South Kensington Main bus routes: 9, 10, 52, 94, 148
Serpentine North Gallery
Nearest tube stations: Lancaster Gate or Marble Arch Main bus routes: 148, 274, 390 94
Group visits
The Serpentine welcomes school, university and community groups to the Galleries on Tuesday through Sunday for self-led visits. For further information regarding planning a group visit, please visit our group visits page. Parking for vehicles and bicycles
There is metered car parking in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. There is dedicated cycle parking within the grounds of the Serpentine North Gallery. There are Santander Cycles hire stations on West Carriage Drive near the Serpentine North Gallery and on The Ring near the Serpentine South Gallery. Dogs
Dogs are not permitted inside the Serpentine Galleries or The Magazine restaurant. There are several dog rings and a water bowl outside the Serpentine South Gallery for short visits. Guide dogs are permitted. Accessibility
We have full disability access and facilities. Facilities – toilets/baby changing room
The Serpentine Galleries have full disability access and facilities. There is a baby changing room located at each Gallery. Refreshments
Benugo runs a cafe at the Serpentine Pavilion. There is a selection of teas, coffees, sandwiches and cakes available daily 10am-6pm from June until October. The Magazine restaurant at the Serpentine North Gallery offers visitors a selection of snack items, teas, coffees, cocktails and wine. Opening times vary on a daily basis. For more information visit: https://www.benugo.com/restaurants/magazine
Closing tomorrow! Don't miss the exhibition 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' at Serpentine South. We're open 10am-6pm and entry is free 🤝
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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views.
Exhibition supported by , and The Marandi Foundation.
⏰ Last chance to visit! 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' closes this Sunday.
The exhibition is a vivid exploration of the possibilities – and impossibilities – of translating between painting, drawing and sculpture. Here's what you've been saying:
"There is a beautiful harmony and clarity to the exhibition."
"The amount of movement, dynamism and force you can feel through the mark making is awe inspiring."
"I've never seen an exhibition like this before, where you can sit so closely with the pieces, feel their presence and weight and contemplate them."
Don't miss it - here's the details to plan your visit:
🎟️ Free entry
📍 Serpentine South
📆 10am-6pm everyday until Sun 7 Jan
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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.
Here are more of the places you've explored inside of the 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' video game ☄️☄️☄️
Play the game for free via Steam (PC-only) and share a snapshot of where you get to with us by tagging and 📸
📷 of artist , seen through the eyes of his wife, Elke.
"The decision to use yellow is very clear... For us, yellow stands for envy, while it might signify happiness or good fortune somewhere else. I find that yellow is a colour that outshines a lot of things... [it's] a state prior to gold. I would prefer to make these sculptures gold, but I've never dared to do so."
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Visit 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' for free at Serpentine South until 7 Jan 2024.
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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.
We recently visited the remarkable artist at her studio in Kent - a quiet haven where the floor is cushioned by infinite layers of newspaper and the walls, windows and furniture are encrusted in years worth of oil paint.
A studio tour is dropping tomorrow - keep your eyes peeled!
🎷 Master Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell with Dudù Kouate and Simon Sieger for 2022
Last summer, legendary composer and musician Roscoe Mitchell gave an hour-long performance in the , and it's now available to watch in full on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Z-2R4VDRPOM
Mitchell has been at the forefront of contemporary music and avant-garde jazz for decades. He's known for resurrecting overlooked woodwind instruments, his visionary solo performances, and his hybrid paradigm of composition and improvisation.
He was joined by Dudù Kouate, a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who plays across Afro-jazz, modern, traditional and contemporary music styles, and Simon Sieger, who plays several instruments – including piano, trombone, accordion, tuba – and arranges and composes music for ensembles.
💌 A letter from to .
For the 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' catalogue, we asked artists what Baselitz's work means to them. Emin's contribution came in the form of a handwritten letter. It reads:
Dear Georg Baselitz,
First of all can I say, I have always loved your work - I like it a lot, I could very happily live with it because it never bores me - you, your ART is unapologetic.
You have spent your life emptying your soul.
You paint like a caveman, a primal being, who was there from the beginning and you will be there till the end.
In the 1990s when it felt to me that the emotional doors of art were close, you were there forcefully trying to smash them open. You did and you have kept them open.
You kept the gateways open for artists like me - you held the hand of Munch and marched swiftly into the future like a Time Lord moving from one world to another.
The love and emotion of your art will stand the test of time. History will be on your side because you always tell your truth.
The journey is yours.
Love,
Tracey Emin
💫Bambii performing at 2023
Toronto-based DJ and producer Bambii is known for her genre-spanning sets which embrace the spirit of dance and rave culture and open up new paths for the free exploration of music.
For Park Nights in the , she designed a rig that gathered data and reproduced images and videos of audience members in real time. "A lot of the project was about breaking the 4th wall", she says, "...commenting not only on music's temporality but an era problematically scrambling to recreate the unquantifiable."
Watch the full set on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/XFwlHEz1MgY
To make the towering sculpture 'Zero Dom', artist first made a smaller version out of wood. This maquette, which is also on view in the gallery, was 3D scanned to create a silicone mould ten times the size. Bronze was then poured into this mould and the 30ft version of the sculpture was born!
Describing the transformation of the work from timber to bronze, Baselitz says: "'Zero Dom' used to be a house made of wood, now it is coal... The house is empty, as the title says, but even an empty dome can stand on firm foundations."
You can visit 'Zero Dom' for free until 7 Jan. You'll find it in the park just outside Serpentine South - it's hard to miss!
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Images: Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 installation views, 2023. Photo 2: Hugo Glendinning.
Christelle Oyiri for 2023
Artist and filmmaker Christelle Oyiri, who you may also know as the DJ and electronic music producer CRYSTALLMESS, presented a new performance 'Faster Than This is Su***de' for this year's Park Nights alongside collaborators and musical guests NANDITA (guitar/vocal), OXHY (sequencing/programming) and COVCO (piano/vocal).
Oyiri engages with issues related to the collective memory of both forgotten and well-known mythologies, be they ancient or ultra-modern. You can watch the full performance over on our YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/7h68AzuSK-4
The drawings on view in the exhibition 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' reflect the artist's sculptural process - they are a way for Baselitz to problem-solve and experiment with the possibilities and impossibilities of translating between painting, drawing and sculpture.
Drawn loosely in ink, these drawings show two recurring motifs - feet and hoops - which are also seen in the sculpture 'Winterschlaf (Hibernation)' (last image).
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Images:
[1-4] Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
[5] Georg Baselitz, 'Winterschlaf (Hibernation)', 2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
“To me", says artist , "this game is a technology for other artists to proclaim it as theirs in a way of going wild with their own practice and taking it into the digital realm.”
Come and play 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' at Serpentine North - it's the last week of the exhibition!
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'Gabriel Massan & Collaborators: Third World: The Bottom Dimension' is led by and Serpentine Arts Technologies, featuring , , , and . Powered by .
🎟️ Free admission
📍 Serpentine North
📆 Thu-Sun, until 26 Nov
👾 Closing soon! Don't miss your chance to experience & Collaborators: 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension'.
These are just a few of the latest memories you've minted from your gameplay on . Play in-person and explore Massan's expansive worlds until 26 Nov at Serpentine North. Open Thu-Sun, 10am-6pm.
You asked for more Moore, so we took another dive into the archive - this time to the year 1995, when exhibited this sculpture depicting a reclining figure for the exhibition 'Here & Now'.
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Image: 'Reclining Figure', Henry Moore, 1995.
Let's take a closer look at some of the video game assets designed for Gabriel Massan's 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension'.
[1] Passing Power 👻
[2] Air Crystal 🔮
[3] Bag of Infinite Seeds 🌱
[4] Fire Power 🔥
[5] Eye Mask 👁️
[6] Crystal Energy 🌞
🎮 Play the game in-person at Serpentine North for free until 26 Nov and play online via Steam (PC-only) https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/gabriel-massan-collaborators-third-world-the-bottom-dimension-exhibition/
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Assets designed by Masako Hirano.
Takashi Murakami 🍄
In 2002, we presented ’s work in the galleries - it was the first time his work was shown in the UK.
The exhibition included portrayals of Murakami’s 1993 invention, Mr DOB, a comic-like character that became his signature, logo and alter ego, and makes a regular appearance in his paintings and sculptures, some of which see Mr DOB morphed into a half-cartoon, half-monster figure.
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Images: Takashi Murakami, installation view from the exhibition 'Takashi Murakami' at Serpentine South © 2002 Takashi Murakami.
"My carvings are best described by Immanuel Kant: 'Out of the crooked wood of humanity, nothing entirely straight can be built. It is only the approximation of this idea that nature imposes upon us.'” —
Swipe for a detail of Baselitz’s sculpture 'Yellow Song', where you can see the texture of the timber, as well as distinctive incisions and notches across the surface.
Visit 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' at Serpentine South until 7 Jan.
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Images: Georg Baselitz, 'Yellow Song', 2012-2013. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
It's the last chance to visit the 2023, which closes on Sunday at 6pm.
'À table' by is free to visit and open to all. Inside, you'll find a café and a large table along the perimeter, so it's the perfect place to take a break during your stroll in the park. Don't miss it!
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Photo: Andy Stagg
'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' is on view now! Visit the exhibition for free at Serpentine South until 7 Jan 2024.
Exhibition supported by , and The Marandi Foundation.
🛖 It’s World Architecture Day! Let’s take a quick look back at the Serpentine Pavilion commissions, which began with the late architect in 2000. Share your favourite in the comments!
Explore more about the history of the Pavilion on our website, or check out the 'Past Pavilions' section on our guide in the app!
'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' opens next Thursday!
“Sculpture is a thing like a miracle. It is built up, decked out, made arbitrarily not as the sign of thoughts but as a thing within the limits of the shape.” - Georg Baselitz
See the artist's towering sculptural works and inky drawings at Serpentine South from Thu 5 Oct until 7 Jan. Free to visit.
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Image: Georg Baselitz, Zero Mobil (Zero Mobile), 2013-2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
Exhibition supported by , and The Marandi Foundation.
👪 In episode 2 of , we turn to the people with whom our lives are first entangled: our families.
How and why do artists involve their family members and homes in their work? This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families.
Featuring an original sound work by , an interview with , audio excerpts from projects led by and from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Elizabeth Graham in conversation with Gaylene Gould.
https://linktr.ee/serpentinepodcast
Available now on all podcast platforms!
➡️ Swipe for Lina Ghotmeh's advice to a young architect
And if you're keen to know more about this year's or want to hear about the first building Ghotmeh designed, head over to our YouTube channel where we've just published a conversation between the architect and Hans Ulrich Obrist held in the Pavilion earlier this summer.
Here are some of the memories you've minted as NFTs from the 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' video game!
"The exhibition makes spaces available for communities to be started and by minting this record or snapshot on Tezos we can build a public archive of multiple perspectives and actions.” – Gabriel Massan
View the public archive of minted tokens on Objkt and share your memories with us using https://objkt.com/collection/KT1RJdGjRk8u319k4RhqYTeSEBzbQVuBPHrF
📢 Serpentine Podcast returns next week!
Our last series reimagined the world - now it's time to look at ourselves and our relationships. Introducing 'Intimacies'.
Delving into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice, this series interrogates intimacy in unexpected ways – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves.
Join our host Gaylene Gould as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and others on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.
Releasing next Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to hear 'Intimacies' first.
https://linktr.ee/serpentinepodcast
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Visual identity by the unloved
Produced by Katie Callin with support from Nada Smiljanic and Anishka Sharma at Reduced Listening
Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen
Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson
Music by Hinako Omori
When Baci met Biscotti...
The West Gallery at Serpentine South is the new meeting place for pups!
🌩️ The form of these sculptures by are inspired by cumulonimbus clouds, more commonly known as thunderclouds, which forewarn of stormy weather and occur more frequently as a result of climate change.
They also serve as models for interspecies encounters: nests and water baths for birds, houses for hedgehogs, objects conceived for dogs, nooks for invertebrates and steps for squirrels to climb. The works are a part of Saraceno’s project 'Cloud Cities', where he asks what forms of urban architecture might emerge when large cities are not only built from a human perspective.
You can see the sculptures inside the gallery, on the roof of the building and within the park as part of the exhibition at Serpentine South.
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Images: Installation views at Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life, Serpentine, London, 2023. Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno.
This is the lightwell at the centre of the roof the 2023. It invites natural light into the space and echoes the shape of the Pavilion's overall structure.
"The Pavilion serves as a place of meeting, togetherness, conviviality, and joy" says Lina Ghotmeh, “I began by looking at the circles made by the canopies of the trees, and set the structure back to avoid their roots, making it the least invasive on the living surroundings as possible.”
Visiting the Pavilion is free and it's open until Oct 2023 at Serpentine South!
Photo: Harry Richards
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🌱 Pollinator Pathmaker is a living sculpture made of plants. Unlike most gardens, this one is designed to prioritise the needs of endangered pollinating insects, rather than to please humans. Watch the full conversation between Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Serpentine Artistic Director @hansulrichobrist on our YouTube channel to learn more about the ongoing project.
🎟️ Booking is now open for ‘Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’ Barbara Kruger is an American artist widely known for her impactful work with images and words. This will be her first solo institutional show in London in over 20 years. We’ll be presenting a unique selection of installations alongside moving image works and multiple soundscapes. Opens 1 Feb - you can book a free ticket online (link in bio) or walk-in to the gallery! #BarbaraKruger
Take a look inside the studio of British painter #RoseWylie 🖼️ Back in 2017, Wylie’s work was presented at Serpentine in the exhibition ‘Quack Quack’. A few years on, we caught up with the artist at her home studio in Kent, where she showed us where her work is produced, and talked to us about her most recent paintings, one of which includes a girl who Rose thinks resembles #ElisabethMoss... let us know if you spot which one!
🎷 Master Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell with Dudù Kouate and Simon Sieger for #ParkNights 2022 Last summer, legendary composer and musician Roscoe Mitchell gave an hour-long performance in the #SerpentinePavilion, and it's now available to watch in full on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Z-2R4VDRPOM Mitchell has been at the forefront of contemporary music and avant-garde jazz for decades. He's known for resurrecting overlooked woodwind instruments, his visionary solo performances, and his hybrid paradigm of composition and improvisation. He was joined by Dudù Kouate, a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who plays across Afro-jazz, modern, traditional and contemporary music styles, and Simon Sieger, who plays several instruments – including piano, trombone, accordion, tuba – and arranges and composes music for ensembles.
🎮 The ‘Third World: The Bottom Dimension’ exhibition may be over, but you can still play the video game online, wherever you are (on PC)! 🔗 Download it for free via Steam (link is in bio) - Project led by @gabrielmassan and Serpentine Arts Technologies. Powered by @tezos. Game commissioned in association with @juliastoschekfoundation Lead Artist, Creative Director, 3D Sculptor, Concept: @gabrielmassan Featured Artists: @castielvitorino, @novissimoedgar, @clublyzza Sound Design: @clublyzza Unreal Development: Alexandre Pina @pinadobrasil, Marchino Manga & @ralphmccoy Capture Mode Development & Unreal Consultant: Iraj Montasham Animation, Cinematography & Film VFX : @minozzicarlos Additional Cinematography: @pinadobrasil Graphic & UI Design: @cokepotato Writing & Narrative Design Support: @sweetbabyinc Translator: Adriana Francisco Mastering Engineer: @rainymiller_ Curator: Tamar Clarke-Brown @licklemore_ Producer: Roisin McVeigh @romcvague #thirdworld #thebottomdimension
💫Bambii performing at #ParkNights 2023 Toronto-based DJ and producer Bambii is known for her genre-spanning sets which embrace the spirit of dance and rave culture and open up new paths for the free exploration of music. For Park Nights in the #SerpentinePavilion, she designed a rig that gathered data and reproduced images and videos of audience members in real time. "A lot of the project was about breaking the 4th wall", she says, "...commenting not only on music's temporality but an era problematically scrambling to recreate the unquantifiable." Watch the full set on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/XFwlHEz1MgY
💬 Barbara Kruger, ‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’ is coming to Serpentine on 1 Feb 2024! Devoted to the exploration of visual culture and image production, Kruger is known for her work with imagery and words, frequently borrowing from the languages of advertising, graphic design, and magazines. Her practice often explores complex mechanisms of power, gender, class, and capital. This exhibition will feature a unique selection of installations, moving image works, and multiple soundscapes installed across the Serpentine building, bookshop, and outside banners, as well as on large-scale, immersive wraparound screens at @outernetarts. It will be the artist’s first institutional show in London in over 20 years - see you in the gallery! 🎟️ Free to visit 📍 Serpentine South 📆 1 February – 17 March 2024 #BarbaraKruger
Christelle Oyiri for #ParkNights 2023 Artist and filmmaker Christelle Oyiri, who you may also know as the DJ and electronic music producer CRYSTALLMESS, presented a new performance 'Faster Than This is Suicide' for this year's Park Nights alongside collaborators and musical guests NANDITA (guitar/vocal), OXHY (sequencing/programming) and COVCO (piano/vocal). Oyiri engages with issues related to the collective memory of both forgotten and well-known mythologies, be they ancient or ultra-modern. You can watch the full performance over on our YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/7h68AzuSK-4
The Living and The Dead Ensemble performing at #ParkNights 2023. The Living and The Dead Ensemble are a group of artists, performers and poets from Haiti, France and the UK. Their work explores different possible methods of telling the history and the present from a Caribbean perspective. Their full Park Nights performance is available on our YouTube channel. Also, if you happen to be going to the Sao Paulo Biennale, make sure you catch their lecture performance on 25 Nov! - The Living and The Dead Ensemble: Mackenson Bijou, Rossi Jacques Casimir, Dieuvela Cherestal, James Desiris, Louis Henderson, Léonard Jean Baptiste, Cynthia Maignan, Sophonie Maignan, Olivier Marboeuf, Mimétik Nèg (James Peter Etienne), Sachernka Anacassis.
“I like to build worlds that are unequal. To to recreate the inequality, but to reveal it.” —@gabrielmassan This clip is taken from a panel talk between artist Gabriel Massan, Serpentine Arts Technologies Curator Tamar Clarke-Brown (@_licklemore) and Serpentine Artistic Director @hansulrichobrist. They discuss: 🗺️ interdisciplinary approaches to worldbuilding 📖 experimental storytelling and playing 🎮 how we can understand and orient ourselves in the world through gaming It’s just gone live on our YouTube channel - link in bio to watch! #thirdworld #thebottomdimension
The curators of ‘Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015’ answer your questions!
'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' is on view now! Visit the exhibition for free at Serpentine South until 7 Jan 2024. Exhibition supported by @whitecube, @thaddaeusropac and The Marandi Foundation. #GeorgBaselitz #Serpentine
🛖 It’s World Architecture Day! Let’s take a quick look back at the Serpentine Pavilion commissions, which began with the late architect #ZahaHadid in 2000. Share your favourite in the comments! Explore more about the history of the Pavilion on our website, or check out the 'Past Pavilions' section on our guide in the @bloombergconnects app!
👪 In episode 2 of #Intimacies, we turn to the people with whom our lives are first entangled: our families. How and why do artists involve their family members and homes in their work? This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families. Featuring an original sound work by #AngeloMadsenMinax, an interview with #HetainPatel, audio excerpts from projects led by #HelenCammock and #RehanaZaman from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Elizabeth Graham in conversation with Gaylene Gould. https://linktr.ee/serpentinepodcast Available now on all podcast platforms!
📢 Serpentine Podcast returns next week! Our last series reimagined the world - now it's time to look at ourselves and our relationships. Introducing 'Intimacies'. Delving into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice, this series interrogates intimacy in unexpected ways – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Join our host Gaylene Gould as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and others on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection. Releasing next Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to hear 'Intimacies' first. https://linktr.ee/serpentinepodcast 👫👬👭🧑🤝🧑 - Visual identity by the unloved Produced by Katie Callin with support from Nada Smiljanic and Anishka Sharma at Reduced Listening Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson Music by Hinako Omori
Our Artistic Director @hansulrichobrist shares what’s new this summer at Serpentine. All of our exhibitions are free and open to all - see you inside the galleries and outside in the park! Serpentine South 🕸️ Tomas Saraceno in Collaboration: ‘Web(s) of Life’ until 10 Sep 🛖 Lina Ghotmeh, Serpentine Pavilion 2023: ‘À table’ until 29 Oct Serpentine North 👾 Gabriel Massan and Collaborators: ‘Third World: The Bottom Dimension’, onsite until 22 Oct
👾 Close your mind to start 👾 ‘Third World: The Bottom Dimension’ launches this Friday online and onsite. Until then, enjoy this video of a dancing Funfun, who is one of the playable characters in the video game that features in the show. Led by @gabrielmassan and Serpentine Arts Technologies, featuring @castielvitorino, @novissimoedgar, @clublyzza, @venturaprofana and @jotamombaca. Powered by @tezos.
☁️ This is the first ever fossil fuel-free human flight, lifted only by the power of the sun and carried by the winds. Taking place over the vast salt flats of Salinas Grandes, Argentina, it was recognised as the most sustainable flight in human history. This film by Aerocene, directed by Tomás Saraceno & Maximiliano Laina, documents the flight, as well as the communities who are fighting to protect their land against the rapid corporate extraction of lithium from the Salt Flats, driven by the demand for batteries, which is depleting water resources in the region and contaminating the Earth. It's now on view as part of #WebsOfLife at Serpentine South: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/tomas-saraceno-webs-of-life-exhibition/ - Video and stills: 'Fly with Pacha, Into the Aerocene', directed by Maximiliano Laina and Tomás Saraceno with Aerocene in collaboration with the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin and other communities who co-organised, hosted and participated in 'Tata Inti' (2017), 'Fly with Aerocene Pacha' (2020) and the 'Alfarcito Gathering' (2023). Script: Claudia Aboaf, Tomás Saraceno, Iosi Havilio. With: Verónica Chávez, Maristella Svampa, Gastón Chillier, Lucas Quipildor, Enrique Viale, Claudia Aboaf, Melisa Argento, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Alicia Chalabe, Bruno Fornillo, Inés Katzenstein, Pía Marchegiani, Graciela Speranza, Joaquín Ezcurra, Museo Aero Solar and Studio Tomás Saraceno. The Aerocene Foundation is made possible by the generous support of Espace Muraille, Eric and Caroline Freymond.
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Architecture is a core aspect of the Serpentine’s programme, with the annual Serpentine Pavilion commission as well as its global extension, with a Beijing Pavilion in 2018. The late Dame Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Zaha Hadid, designed the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and Chucs Serpentine, a former 1805 Grade II* listed former gunpowder store, returning it to public use for the first time in its 208-year history.
The Serpentine offers innovative ways for all ages to engage with its exhibitions, projects, education and public programmes, including podcasts. Only 17% of the Galleries’ annual operating income comes from government sources, with the remaining 83% raised privately through donations, corporate sponsorships, trusts, foundations, individuals and other activities, including Gallery and restaurant hire.
Open 10am - 6pm from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on Mondays. Getting here Serpentine Gallery Nearest tube stations: Lancaster Gate, Knightsbridge or South Kensington. Main bus routes: 9, 10, 52, 94, 148 Serpentine Sackler Gallery Nearest tube stations: Lancaster Gate or Marble Arch. Main bus routes: 148, 274, 390 94 Group visits The Serpentine welcomes school, university and community groups to the Galleries on Tuesday through Sunday for self-led visits. All groups must book in advance with the visitor services team. For further information regarding planning a group visit, please visit our group visits page. Parking for vehicles and bicycles There is metered car parking in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. There is dedicated cycle parking within the grounds of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. There are Santander Cycles hire stations on West Carriage Drive near the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and on The Ring near the Serpentine Gallery. Dogs Dogs are not permitted inside the Serpentine Galleries or the Chucs Serpentine restaurant. There are several dog rings outside the Serpentine Galleries for short visits. Guide dogs are permitted. Accessibility We have full disability access and facilities. Facilities – toilets/baby changing room The Serpentine Galleries have full disability access and facilities. There is a baby changing room located at each Gallery. Refreshments Chucs Serpentine restaurant and café is now at the Serpentine Galleries. Chucs offers an all-day menu, a £25 three-course set menu, children’s classics, homemade ice creams and cocktails. A take-away menu is also available.
Chucs Serpentine is open for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea: 9am-6.30pm Tuesday-Sunday, closed Mondays.
For reservations, please call 020 7298 7552.
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