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

A group of young people all facing in the same direction, with the light behind them
Exhibition Exhibition

Radio Ballads

Serpentine North Gallery 31 Mar — 29 May 2022

Artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar present four bodies of work, exploring stories of labour, and who cares for who and in what way...

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
Public Art Exhibition

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5

Serpentine South Gallery 14 Apr — 4 Sep 2022

Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials.

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YOUR PRESENCE ALONE CHANGES HOW OTHERS BREATHE
Live Live

YOUR PRESENCE ALONE CHANGES HOW OTHERS BREATHE

Online 24 May 2022 6-7pm BST Open Captions

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Serpentine Arts Technologies invite you to playtest an interactive murder mystery.

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Like Coming Home: Screening and Discussion
Live Live

Like Coming Home: Screening and Discussion

Offsite 18 May 2022 2-5pm

Join Ed Webb-Ingall and Claire Louise Staunton to reflect on the relationship between art and activism in response to current housing struggles.

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Sun & Sea
Live Live

Sun & Sea

Offsite 23 Jun — 10 Jul 2022

The UK premiere of the Golden-Lion winning beach opera Sun & Sea, presented by Serpentine, LIFT and We Are Lewisham

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Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel by Theaster Gates
Pavilion Pavilion

Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel by Theaster Gates

Serpentine Pavilion 10 Jun — 16 Oct 2022

The Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel draws inspiration from the architectural typologies of chapels and the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, England. 

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Serpentine Studios
Exhibition Exhibition

Serpentine Studios

Offsite 1 Aug 2021

Serpentine Studios x Coal Drops Yard Part 1: a collection of original artworks by Serpentine's Youth Collective, inspired by James Barnor's timeless archive.

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Art & Ideas

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Home Video: A Conversation on the Role of Video in Current Housing Struggles
Article

Home Video: A Conversation on the Role of Video in Current Housing Struggles

Ed Webb-Ingall, Hannan Majid, Dhelia Snoussi, Caterina Sartori, 13 May 2022

The UK is experiencing a housing crisis, and video-making is key to many struggles for safe and affordable homes. In this interview, Ed Webb-Ingall speaks to th...

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a collage of book covers from books in the article list dropped on a green background
Resource

Reading List: Helen Cammock for Radio Ballads

Fiona Glen and Lizzie Graham, 13 May 2022

How can we speak, write, and think, of care? This reading list by Helen Cammock invites you to discover new lines of enquiry into how we relate to one another, ...

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Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson
Audio

Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson

6 May 2022

Sound Gallery is a series of original artist's audio commissions that invite us to listen actively. In Torkwase Dyson's work, we hear an impactful collage of so...

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Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno
Audio

Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno

6 May 2022

Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's audio commission, IN A GARDEN, invites us to step into a generative space made of layered ...

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Where Soul and City Connect: A Personal Reflection on Serpentine Pavilion 2021

Where Soul and City Connect: A Personal Reflection on Serpentine Pavilion 2021

Nadia Joseph, 13 Apr 2022

Exploring new possibilities for the Serpentine Pavilion to be in dialogue with its city, architect Sumayya Vally created four 'Fragments' of the 2021 Pavilion f...

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Jennifer Packer: The Heavy Lightness of Black Breath

Jennifer Packer: The Heavy Lightness of Black Breath

Tina M. Campt, 23 Feb 2022

Renowned Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina M. Campt, recounts her time suspended in the immersive paintings of  Jennifer Pac...

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macro taraxos right to left
Article

Invitation to Listen: Sophia Al-Maria and Melissa Blanchflower with Nick Hackworth

22 Feb 2022

Sophia Al-Maria's taraxos offers a gathering place and an open-air sanctuary. Here, Al-Maria and Melissa Blanchflower, Serpentine Curator of Exhibitions and Pu...

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Interspecies Communication Research Initiative (ISCRI): A Cephalopod ↔ Machine Encounter
Article

Interspecies Communication Research Initiative (ISCRI): A Cephalopod ↔ Machine Encounter

25 Jan 2022

How can an octopus, in an encounter with artificial intelligence, transform our understanding of technological development? Alasdair Milne, a PhD researcher w...

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HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Kyla Harris & Leah Clements
Film

HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Kyla Harris & Leah Clements

4 Nov 2021

A conversation about the power of representation in relation to disability, making work accessible and the importance of disabled/crip community.

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View onto an urban sidewalk and grey old-fashioned storefront. The storefront’s windows are occluded with red fabric. On the window to the left, grey vinyl reads: “Nothing About Us Without Us.” Underneath in smaller letters reads: recess. There is a wheelchair ramp coming out of the storefront’s door, across the sidewalk, and ending at the lip to the street. It is covered in yellow caution tape.
Article

HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Leah Clements, Taraneh Fazeli and K MacBride

28 Oct 2021

A conversation about architectures of care, expanding ideas of access adisabled ‘elders’.

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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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