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A city skyline is abstracted into geometric patterns in a kaleidoscope effect, all across a warm terracotta-coloured, dusty background

Rain in my hip

Rena Anakwe, 6 Sep 2023

In this looping film work, artist and poet Rena Anakwe responds to ideas of weather, energy and interconnection within Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition, Web(s) of Life.

In Conversation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Rebecca Lewin

In Conversation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Rebecca Lewin

18 Feb 2021

Back to Earth artists consider how art, design and philosophy can effect long-term change in the face of ecological crisis.

Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest

7 Aug 2020

We listen to Indigenous organisations fighting extraction and climate change and the artists working with them.

Courtesy of Himali Singh Soin

Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.

29 Mar 2021

Himali Singh Soin, together with curator Kostas Stasinopoulos, asked friends to share messages, traces and transmissions of love.

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism

10 Mar 2021

We take a look back at the pioneer’s ongoing relationship with Serpentine.

140 Ideas

19 Jun 2021

A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth.

In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti

In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti

28 Jan 2021

Back to Earth artists consider how art, design and philosophy can effect long-term change in the face of ecological crisis.

Back to Earth: Queer Currents

Back to Earth: Queer Currents

21 Aug 2020

Artists and thinkers join the dots between queer theory and environmental activism and climate justice.

Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson

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.

Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno

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, opens up a generative space made of layered sound.

Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey

Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey

22 Jul 2022

In Ain Bailey's sound work, we hear intimate conversations and sonic resonances that reflect Brixton's sites of care and resistance.

a form with a texture like grey mineral

Sound Gallery: Crystals of this Social Substance by Jay Bernard

22 Jul 2022

Jay Bernard's audio work for the Sound Gallery series brings eight young people into conversation on class, economics and inequality.

Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)

Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)

21 Oct 2020

Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategist at the Serpentine, speaks to Yasaman Sheri about her multifaceted practice, the challenges of art and science collaborations, and how the new Synthe...

The Interfaces of AI Art Practices

The Interfaces of AI Art Practices

30 Mar 2021

If machine learning is a new paradigm in computing, then why is there no new interface?

Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality

Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality

29 Sep 2020

Kim Heecheon and Hans Ulrich Obrist discuss discuss world-building, virtual reality and Pokémon GO.

Artists World Illustration

Ecological World-Building: From Science Fiction to Virtual Reality

2 Mar 2021

Alice Bucknell draws a line from the otherworldly, ecological imaginings of writers like Octavia Butler to the "digital gardening" practices of artists like Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Jen...

Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life

Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life

17 Sep 2020

"Artists are inventors too; coming up with new ideas and new forms of expression, so to be in a research lab and to be an artist inventing new things made a lot of sense to me." Rebecc...

The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning

The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning

14 Aug 2020

Allison Parrish draws parallels between automatic writing and writing under the control of automation.

An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities

An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities

23 Feb 2021

To encounter the immersive virtual landscapes and meditative soundscapes of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is to be transported to a new world.

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Discover over 50 years of Serpentine

From the architectural Pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas Marathons and research-led initiatives, explore our past projects and exhibitions.

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