FORMAFANTASMA ANNOUNCED AS SERPENTINE LEAD R&D FELLOWS, ECOLOGY
Serpentine is delighted to announce a multi-year collaboration with Formafantasma, who will join the organisation as Lead R&D Fellows, Ecology. The partnership strengthens Serpentine’s long-term commitment to embedding environmental thinking across its programme, operations, and organisational culture.
Formafantasma, the research-based design studio led by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, explores the environmental, historical, political, and social forces shaping contemporary design. Working across Serpentine’s programmes and systems, they will help develop new approaches to integrating ecological thinking into Serpentine’s day-to-day activities and long-term strategy.
Beginning in summer 2026, the appointment will span curatorial guidance, institutional advisory, and knowledge-building across exhibition-making, daily operations, resource use, labour, and Serpentine’s civic role. The collaboration will begin with an in-depth research phase to map Serpentine’s existing processes and systems, from curatorial practices to operational structures, identifying opportunities for ecological intervention and long-term change.
Running alongside this work, a multi-year public programme will invite audiences into the process, creating opportunities to share, document, and disseminate the findings and methodologies emerging from the ongoing research.
In 2020, Formafantasma presented Cambio at Serpentine North, a major research-led exhibition examining the ecological, political, and economic dimensions of the global timber industry.
