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

Queer Earth and Liquid Matters
Live Live

Queer Earth and Liquid Matters

Saturday 16 July, 2-8pm & Sunday 17 July 2022, 11-6pm

A Back to Earth LIVE programme exploring transformation, queerness, the wild, the natural and the unnatural, as well as, decolonial, Indigenous and submerged pe...

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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 June - 18 September 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 24th June - Thursday 13th 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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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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Cecilia Vicuña Park Nights 2019

Art & Ideas

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A black and white photograph of several Ghanaian men who are facing away from us and leaning against a wooden rowing boat with white bands tied round their heads. One is turning and smiling at us.

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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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 invites you to consider how we relate to one another and create frameworks for 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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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 into a generative space made of layered sound.

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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

Nadia Joseph, a team member of New Beacon Books, reflects on her experience of the Pavilion and how it resonated with many aspects of her life.

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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 paintings of Jennifer Packer.

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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 discusses her commission, taraxos, with Serpentine's Melissa Blanchflower and Nick Hackworth, Director of Modern Forms.

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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

Alasdair Milne, a researcher with Serpentine’s Creative AI Lab, dives into possibilities for creative collaboration between artists, AI and octopi. 

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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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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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