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Plan your visit to Serpentine featuring the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh, exhibitions by Tomás Saraceno and Gabriel Massan, the Maria Lassnig Prize Mural by Atta Kwami and much more!

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Kensington Gardens,
London W2 3XA

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West Carriage Drive,
London W2 2AR

Closed until 23 June

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

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh
Pavilion Pavilion

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh

Serpentine Pavilion 9 June - 29 October 2023

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

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Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Exhibition Exhibition

Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life

The Royal Parks Serpentine South Gallery 1 June - 10 September 2023

A living, collaborative and multi-species exhibition that delves into how different life forms, technologies and energy systems are connected in the climate emergency.

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Third World: The Bottom Dimension
Exhibition Digital Project Exhibition

Third World: The Bottom Dimension

A co-created digital world that invites us to reorient our understandings of reality, and ourselves.

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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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Art & Ideas

Explore the ideas behind our programme in depth and find out more from the artists we're working with.
Never Again Grenfell
Article

Never Again Grenfell

Paul Gilroy, 24 Apr 2023

An essay by sociologist and author Paul Gilroy, written to accompany Steve McQueen’s Grenfell.

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A view of a river in an industrial zone. It looks like we're in southern England from the willow trees and shrubs and reed lining the riverbank. Further off, you can see industrial buildings and electricity pylons. The image is framed by two pillars and a railing.
Article

And I have come to listen in

Priya Jay, 3 Apr 2023

Writer Priya Jay responds to the sounds of Radio Ballads by weaving together a series of reflections that are, by turn, poetic, raw and resonant. Radio Ballads was a three-year project...

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Being Present in Our Problems
Article

Being Present in Our Problems

Richard Sennett, 27 Mar 2023

Sociologist Richard Sennett considers how collective actions and concerns can help us to counter politics of individualism and isolation.

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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 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 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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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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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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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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