PETER DOIG: HOUSE OF MUSIC

Serpentine is honoured to present House of Music, a new project by one of today’s leading British artists: Peter Doig. The exhibition marks a return to Serpentine South for Doig who first exhibited at the gallery in 1991 as a finalist in the Barclays Young Artist Award.

Accompanying Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition highlights the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, alongside the importance of sites of communal gathering and creative exchange.

Envisaged as a multi-sensory environment, visitors are invited to pause and linger as they look and listen. House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space, bringing together recent paintings by Doig and sound broadcast through two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist, from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades, plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers.

At Serpentine South, from 10 October 2025 – 8 February 2026

Press view: Thursday 9 October 2025, 10am–2pm

Please RSVP to: [email protected]

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