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Spend Summer at Serpentine.
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Kensington Gardens,
London W2 3XA

Tuesday - Sunday (Open Bank Holiday Mondays)
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West Carriage Drive,
London W2 2AR

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What's On

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

A photograph of 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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Back to Earth
Exhibition Exhibition

Back to Earth

Kensington Gardens The Magazine Café Serpentine North Gallery 22 Jun — 18 Sep 2022

Back to Earth includes artists whose work reminds us of the fragility of the earth immediately beneath our feet, and the planet we depend on.

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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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Park Nights 2022
Live Live

Park Nights 2022

Serpentine Pavilion Friday 24 June - Thursday 13 October, 8pm

Each year, Park Nights presents a series of new performance commissions in Serpentine’s annual architectural commission, the Serpentine Pavilion.

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A sepia photograph of a woman with curly short hair wearing a dark jacket and a man in a white jacket. Both people are looking directly into the camera.
Live Live

Alienarium 5: Replicante, a Concert by Exotourisme

Serpentine Pavilion Tuesday 30 August, 8pm

Join us at 8pm on Tuesday 30 August for a concert by Exotourisme, the final live programme for Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s exhibition, Alienarium 5.

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A photograph of several clay objects laid out on a blue sheet
Live Live

Creating with Clay: Objects of Devotion

Serpentine Pavilion Saturday 3 September 2022, 2pm

An engaging clay workshop to guide you through hand building techniques, in order to connect with the theme of devotional objects.

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In Conversation: Farah Nayeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Live Live

In Conversation: Farah Nayeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Serpentine Pavilion Wednesday 7 September 2022, 7pm

Join us for a conversation between Farah Nayeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist on the dynamics of art and society.

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Cecilia Vicuña Park Nights 2019

Art & Ideas

Explore the ideas behind our programme in depth and find out more from the artists we're working with.
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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Article

Speaking to Support Structures: Barby Asante

15 Aug 2022

Support Structures for Support Structures Fellow Barby Asante reflects on how acceptance and reciprocity can form foundations for creative support.

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people sitting around a bright green carpet laid out in the grand galleries of a classical art gallery, sharing drinks
Article

Speaking to Support Structures: Abbas Zahedi

8 Aug 2022

Artist and Support Structures for Support Structures fellow Abbas Zahedi considers the centrality of invitation and dialogue to his practice.

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a mysterious dark space with red hair
Audio

shush (feat. lucinda chua): A Response to Alienarium 5

Charlie Fox, 25 Jul 2022

A response to Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's Alienarium 5, this audio work is a darkly dreamlike guided meditation that brings us close to a mysterious creature.

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a form with a texture like grey mineral
Audio

Sound Gallery: Crystals of this Social Substance by Jay Bernard

22 Jul 2022

Jay Bernard's audio work for the Sound Gallery series brings eight young people into conversation on class, economics and inequality.

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Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey
Audio

Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey

22 Jul 2022

In Ain Bailey's sound work, we hear intimate conversations and sonic resonances that reflect Brixton's sites of care and resistance.

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A photograph of a woman wearing a colourful sixties suit and holding a red umbrella, posing in a children's playpark
Article

Photo Poetry: Three Responses to James Barnor's Archive

1 Jun 2022

Samatar Elmi, Louisa Adjoa Parker and Amina Jama write poetry in response to the vivid photographs of British-Ghanaian photographer, James Barnor.

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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

In the context of the UK's housing crisis, Ed Webb-Ingall speaks to three activists about how video-making is used in struggles for safe and affordable homes.

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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 gathers titles that can help us reconsider how we relate to one another and take caring action.

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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

Torkwase Dyson's commission for Sound Gallery embodies breath in relation to the politics of space, the environment, and the rights of Black bodies to breathe.

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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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