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Grenfell by Steve McQueen at Serpentine Galleries

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Plan your visit to Serpentine featuring Infinite Folds a solo exhibition by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Grenfell a film by Steve McQueen and the Maria Lassnig Prize Mural by Atta Kwami.

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Kensington Gardens,
London W2 3XA

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West Carriage Drive,
London W2 2AR

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Explore Serpentine's programme through public art projects, exhibitions, virtual talks, articles, interviews and podcasts.

Steve McQueen Grenfell Film Exhibition at Serpentine Galleries
Film Exhibition

Grenfell by Steve McQueen

Serpentine South Gallery 7 Apr — 10 May 2023

Grenfell by Steve McQueen In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 J...

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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds
Exhibition Exhibition

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds

Serpentine North Gallery 11 October 2022 — 10 April 2023

An exhibition charting over seven decades of Barbara Chase-Riboud's innovation in sculptural technique through monumental sculptures and works on paper.

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Serpentine Cinema: Menelaos Karamaghiolis
Film Live

Serpentine Cinema: Menelaos Karamaghiolis

Offsite 27-30 March 2023

A four day festival of films by Greek filmmaker Menelaos Karamaghiolis. Explore four decades of his work in documentary, fiction, artist film, activism and radio.

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A mural in an outdoor space in front of a bed of plants. The painting is made up of colourful grids and lines.
Public Art

Atta Kwami: Maria Lassnig Prize Mural

Serpentine North Garden Tue 6 Sep 2022 - Sun 3 Sep 2023

Serpentine presents a public art mural by the late painter, printmaker, independent art historian, and curator Atta Kwami.

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Gabriel Massan & Collaborators: Third World: The Bottom Dimension
Digital Digital

Gabriel Massan & Collaborators: Third World: The Bottom Dimension

Onsite Online Launching Summer 2023

Third World: The Bottom Dimension is a multi-level downloadable game by artist Gabriel Massan.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh
Pavilion Pavilion

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh

Serpentine Pavilion June - October 2023

Serpentine Pavilion 2023: À table, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh.

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Art & Ideas

Explore the ideas behind our programme in depth and find out more from the artists we're working with.
a highly colourful painting with pop-art influences, showing bright red, green, orange and yellow planes. grinning caricatured faces with brown skin and hats are shown, as well as the figure of a donkey and some structures.
Article

Télémaque Paean

manuel arturo abreu, 23 Feb 2023

Dominican artist, poet, critic, and curator manuel arturo abreu pens two-part essay on the work of Haitian painter Hervé Télémaque.

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A mural in an outdoor space in front of a bed of plants. The painting is made up of colourful grids and lines.
Audio

Atta Kwami Playlist

2 Mar 2023

A selection of music celebrating the artist Atta Kwami, to accompany his public mural at Serpentine.

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a large canvas in earthy tones showing many spherical forms and strips where parts of plants are caught up in swirls of leaves
Article

Endless Connection: A Conversation on the Work of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag

Rayan Elnayal & Atheel Elmalik, 28 Jan 2023

Writer-filmmaker Atheel Elmalik and artist-architect Rayan Elnayal share responses to the work and world of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.

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against a taupe-coloured background, a globular abstract form made of many components hovers. a mossy rock structure is at its core, with glossy magenta fluid and pale pink chalk colliding with it. glassy bubbles float around the scene, refracting the form. REWORLDING is written in white lettering across the centre of the image, distorted by a bubble.
Audio

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING

18 Jan 2023

A podcast series that invites everyone to reimagine our world through everyday practices.

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on a white wall, a large painting with a sandy-coloured background showing an abstracted village community made up of dozens of small human figures with pinkish-red faces. they are arranged in cocoon-like positions and clusters, with dark brown lines resembling roots connecting them to dozens of trees
Article

The Neighbourhood of the House of Wealth

Leila Aboulela, 5 Jan 2023

In this short story brimming with life, Leila Aboulela animates the history of Bait Al-Mal, the childhood neighbourhood of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.

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Three More Songs for Our Black Chapel
Article

Three More Songs for Our Black Chapel

RESOLVE Collective, 7 Nov 2022

Reflecting on their experience of Theaster Gates' Serpentine Pavilion, the members of RESOLVE Collective offer a series of sonic memories from communal spaces.

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Minima Aesthetica
Article

Minima Aesthetica

Prof. Johnny Golding, 7 Dec 2022

An experimental text by philosopher-poet Johnny Golding offers a series of provocations and ruminations on art, play, power, and what might be a state of total acceptance – or a home.

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On one half of the image, an oculus is a white circle of light against a dark background. On the other half of the image, black-stained planks with light diffusing from the top down
Article

Black Weathersystems

Nikita Gale, 5 Oct 2022

Nikita Gale considers the cyclical nature of performance and memory in Theaster Gate’s Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel through a series of annotated notes.

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Two white women with short hair are sitting cross-legged in a sunny London park. They are laughing beside a patch of tall wild flowers
Article

Understanding Planet as Household: Janine Benyus and Kate Raworth

Janine Benyus & Kate Raworth, 14 Oct 2022

Economist and doughnut economics creator Kate Raworth speaks with Janine Benyus, a scientist and leading figure in biomimicry, about how designing from the whole can help us to thrive.

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all time
Article

all time

Pratyusha, 14 Sep 2022

A newly commissioned poem by Pratyusha, engaging with the voices and worlds of the Back to Earth exhibition.

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A complex pattern of red and gold marks and lines on a white background
Article

Fermented Code: Modelling the Microbial Through Miso

Claire L. Evans, 16 Sep 2022

Starting with her batch of homemade miso, Claire L. Evans' essay guides us on a far-ranging journey through fermentation.

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Black Planetarium
Article

Black Planetarium

Irenosen Okojie, 25 Aug 2022

Responding to Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's Alienarium 5, this short story embraces cosmic metamorphosis and imagines a moment of Black transcendence.

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Earth's Breath
Audio

Earth's Breath

Tabita Rezaire, 18 Aug 2022

This flowing meditation invites us to take a breath of gratitude in communion and union with plant life.

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Digital Guide

Discover more from the Serpentine with our free Bloomberg Connects digital guide. Hear from artists, curators and special guests talking in-depth about Serpentine exhibitions.

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