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A group of four large wooden sculptures, loosely representing figures, face each other in a high-ceilinged white gallery space.

The Artist Who Brought Giants out of the Forest

Dr Ulrich Bruemmer, 6 Dec 2023

When he met the giant wooden sculptures by Georg Baselitz – currently showing as part of the artist’s current solo exhibition at Serpentine –...

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Head and shoulders of Brontez Purnell, who is wearing glasses in the shower, with water running over him. His eyes are closed in abandon and his hand drags sensually across his face, parting his lips

The Queen in Trade: A Sex Column Not Yet Started

Brontez Purnell, 12 Sep 2023

Writer, artist, and musician Brontez Purnell shares an unreleased sex column for Serpentine Podcast's Intimacies series.

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Tarek Atoui and Lina Ghotmeh on Dawn Chorus
In Conversation

Tarek Atoui and Lina Ghotmeh on Dawn Chorus

28 Sep 2023

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 architect Lina Ghotmeh and sound artist Tarek Atoui discuss spatiality, sensory listening, and the soundscape Atoui created for the Pavilion.

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a landscape viewed from above, full of trees, shrubby grasslands and green paths or streams. the greens glow almost blue and the image looks tangled, alive and abstract; perhaps the colours have been altered to give it an otherwordly feeling

As It Was in the Beginning, Is Now, and Ever Shall Be

Scott F. Gilbert, 6 Jun 2023

Biologist Scott F. Gilbert tells the story of life on Earth from the perspective of bacteria.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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Three More Songs for Our Black Chapel

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

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 h...

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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

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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