Future - Live Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Patrick Staff 8 Feb 2020 Curator Claude Adjil leads a tour of the Patrick Staff exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Future - Live Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Albert Oehlen 25 Jan 2020 Curator at Large of Live Programmes Claude Adjil leads a tour of the Albert Oehlen exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Upcoming - Live Jennifer Walshe & Timothy Morton: TIME TIME TIME 14 Dec 2019 Visionary philosopher Timothy Morton and experimental composer Jennifer Walshe join forces to explore the multiplicity of temporalities at the heart of being human. A new opera presented in collaboration with London Contemporary Music Festival.
Upcoming - Live Christodoulos Panayiotou: Dying on Stage 7 Dec 2019 Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou presents a new version of his performance, exploring the hierarchical order of literal, metaphorical and symbolic deaths on the stage, as well as the philological concept of 'tragic irony', through
Upcoming - Learn, Changing play Special Rights Forum 26 Nov 2019 The Special Rights Forum brings together parents, carers, educators, activists, and artists to create a network of support and solidarity to resist disability discrimination in the education system.
Upcoming - Live Saturday Talks: Natalia Grabowska on Patrick Staff 16 Nov 2019 Assistant Exhibitions Curator Natalia Grabowska leads a tour of the Patrick Staff exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Upcoming - Learn, Language and Power ACT ESOL: Language, Resistance, Theatre Training Workshop (November 2019) 16 Nov 2019 ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre training workshops are the result of a three-year research process undertaken by Participatory ESOL practitioners and Participatory Theatre practitioners, exploring how to implement Theatre of the Oppressed
Upcoming - Learn, Language and Power ACT ESOL: Language, Resistance, Theatre Training Workshop (October 2019) 19 Oct 2019 ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre training workshops are the result of a three-year research process undertaken by Participatory ESOL practitioners and Participatory Theatre practitioners, exploring how to implement Theatre of the Oppressed
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: culture in common 12 to 13 Oct 2019 Join Family Artists-in-Residence One of My Kind (OOMK) to discover and share the interests we have in common.
Past - Learn, School The Autumn Studio: Belinda Zhawi 8 Oct 2019 The Serpentine Galleries are offering free artist-led workshops for school groups this October with the Schools Artist-in-Residence 2019, poet and writer Belinda Zhawi.
Past - Park Nights, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Carrie Mae Weems, A Meditation on the History of Violence 4 Oct 2019 Pioneering artist Carrie Mae Weems presented a series of fragmented moments linked together to form a meditation on the history of violence. Joined by renowned artists and musicians Nona Hendryx and Carl Hancock Rux, Weems devisee an evening of
Past - Live, Pavilion Albert Oehlen Invites Steamboat Switzerland and Lorenzo Senni 2 Oct 2019 On the occasion of his major new exhibition at Serpentine Gallery Albert Oehlen invited the trio Steamboat Switzerland and experimental musician Lorenzo Senni to devise an evening of music inside the Serpentine Pavilion.
Past - Learn, Language and Power ACT ESOL: Language, Resistance, Theatre Training Workshop (September 2019) 28 Sep 2019 ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre training workshops are the result of a three-year research process undertaken by Participatory ESOL practitioners and Participatory Theatre practitioners, exploring how to implement Theatre of the Oppressed in
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Cecilia Vicuña, Clit Nest 27 Sep 2019 Pioneering artist Cecilia Vicuña presented Clit Nest, a participatory and poetic performance that reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion’s roof as a connector to the cosmos and its cave-like interior as a womb.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: 1010 Benja SL, KINDLIG: The Two House Shuffle 20 Sep 2019 Artist and musician 1010 Benja SL performed KINDLIG, a project with a mysterious musical composition, presented in collaboration with Young Turks.
Past - Live, Pavilion Launch of Suzanne Treister: From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime) 19 Sep 2019 Join us for the launch of Suzanne Treister’s new book and web AR work with an in-conversation with Suzanne Treister, Michael Doser (Senior Research Physicist, CERN) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries) and a book
Past - Park Nights, Live COS × Serpentine Park Nights, Klein (DJ Set) at Coal Drops Yard 18 Sep 2019 Join us for a specially conceived off-site Park Night, hosted at COS Coal Drops Yard in London’s Kings Cross with Klein.
Past - Live Walking Backwards, Alex Cecchetti 14 Sep 2019 Artist, poet, choreographer and gardener Alex Cecchetti presented the incantation, Walking Backwards (2013-ongoing), specifically re-conceived for the eight-acre, historical garden of the little-known and enchanting Myddelton House, once
Past - Pavilion, Learn, Changing play Recipes for Change: Adelita Husni Bey – Who Cares? 12 Sep 2019 Join artist Adelita Husni Bey and the Portman Early Childhood Centre at the launch of their new illustrated book Who Cares?
Past - Live Listening Session: The Flourishing Diversity Series 8 Sep 2019 On the occasion of The Flourishing Diversity Summit taking place at UCL on the 9-11 September, join us for a Listening Session led by the Mamos, spiritual leaders from the Arhuaco nation of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The session
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Klein, Lifetime 6 Sep 2019 Klein presented Lifetime, a multisensory performance exploring the fragility of one's culture through memory and loss using this performance as tool of preservation.
Past - Pavilion, Learn Recipes for Change: Shadow Sistxrs - FERTILE SOULS 5 Sep 2019 On 5th of September, Recipes for Change will become Fertile Souls, a roaming survival school. This iteration of Fertile Souls will be led by Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club founders, Monique Etienne and Ayesha Tan-Jones. Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club is a self
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Alexander Boyes on Augmented Architecture 24 Aug 2019 Producer Alexander Boyes leads a tour of the Augmented Architechture installation. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Park Nights, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights: Kiko Kostadinov / vanillajellaba 16 Aug 2019 Menswear designer Kiko Kostadinov presented an evening in collaboration with vanillajellaba, a London anonymous collective developed around the translation of everyday consumerism and ordinary occurrences through a distorted lens.
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Alex Boyes on Augmented Architecture 10 Aug 2019 Alex Boyes, Producer, Augmented Architecture, leads a tour of the Augmented Architechture installation. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: buildings in common 10 to 11 Aug 2019 Artists One of My Kind (OOMK) designed a collaborative city with children and their families.
Past - Pavilion, Learn Recipes for Change: Sacred Seeds 8 Aug 2019 For the second Recipes for Change, Cecilia Cruz will explore her interest in Mesoamerican culture and food to present a workshop that will take you on a spiritual and historical journey. Collaborating with Phaxsi Coca, an Andean musician from Bolivia
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Rachel Pimm, (The Great Exhibition of) The Works of Cash Crops: an installation and programme of encounters 3 Aug 2019 Artist Rachel Pimm produces sculpture, video, and performance that explore environments and their materialities from the point of view of non-human agents such as plants or minerals. (The Great Exhibition of) The Work of Cash Crops examines
Past - Pavilion, Learn Recipes for Change: Micro-Rainbow 1 Aug 2019 Building on the Radical Kitchen programme launched in 2017, this third season deepens our connections through food. The invited groups will meet with visitors over a picnic to discuss the ways in which they create sustainable projects and campaigns
Past - Pavilion, Learn Recipes for Change 1 Aug 2019 On 1 & 8 August and 5 & 12 September, a London community group or campaign organisation will assemble in the Pavilion at 1pm to share recipes for creating meaningful social change in the city. Building on the Radical Kitchen programme
Past - Park Nights, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Shawanda Corbett, Blackbird in Mississippi 26 Jul 2019 Shawanda Corbett presented Blackbird in Mississippi, a performance in which the protagonist, haar wese, time travels to Mississippi where music offers her a voice in her quest to find placement in displacement.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Ayesha Tan-Jones, Parasites of Pangu 20 Jul 2019 Ayesha Tan-Jones presents Parasites of Pangu, a dystopian opera exploring the world through the story of an archeologist of the future, based on a Chinese creation myth. Through apocalyptic veils and decaying soils, a hopeful future is
Past - Park Nights COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Jakob Kudsk Steensen, The Deep Listener 12 Jul 2019 Jakob Kudsk Steensen created a sonic and immersive environment for The Deep Listener, the inaugural Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission that explores themes of extinction, preservation and the emergence of new ecological realities. Featuring
Past - Learn, School The Summer Studio: Belinda Zhawi 9 Jul 2019 The Serpentine's Schools Artist-in-Residence 2019, poet and writer Belinda Zhawi, will lead a series of creative writing workshops with school groups.
Past - Park Nights, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Precious Okoyomon, The End of the World 5 Jul 2019 Poet and artist Precious Okoyomon presented a new play The End of the World, a spectral-performance that asks the viewer to consider the visceral experience of anti-blackness as an errant and pathological virus and the double articulation of
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019 5 Jul 2019 COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019, the Serpentine Galleries’ annual series of experimental, interdisciplinary commissions in the Serpentine Pavilion, presented eight new works by international practitioners in the fields of art, music, poetry,
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Big Family Weekend 29 to 30 Jun 2019 A weekend of art, activism, posters and storytelling. Discover how art and words can change the world.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Pavilion Junya Ishigami and Jakob Kudsk Steensen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 20 Jun 2019 Architect Junya Ishigami and artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen discussed the Serpentine Pavilion 2019 and the Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission in a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine
Past - Live, Exhibition An Evening with Faith Ringgold 6 Jun 2019 Pioneering artist, activist, educator and author Faith Ringgold was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, on the opening day of her first solo exhibition in a European public institution. For more than five
Past - Live The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants 19 May 2019 Serpentine Galleries presented the third installment of this symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project. The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants brought together scientists, anthropologists,
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturdays Live: Tabita Rezaire, MerKaBa For The Hoeteps 18 May 2019 In the context of Emma Kunz's exhibition artist Tabita Rezaire presented MerKaBa For The Hoeteps, a collective healing offering. This experience was open to all and participants were encouraged to wear comfortable clothes.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Tour: Disabled People Against Cuts 4 May 2019 Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) lead a Power Tour to raise awareness of the disproportionate and adverse impacts of so-called "welfare reform" measures on disabled people since 2010, and how disabled people have been
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Amira Gad on Hito Steyerl 4 May 2019 Curator, Amira Gad leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: The Voice of Domestic Workers 28 Apr 2019 The Voice of Domestic Workers began this walk with real-life accounts of domestic workers being rescued in Hyde Park, London. A self-organised network and campaign calling for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers,
Past - Live, Exhibition Sunday Talk: Amal Khalaf and Elizabeth Graham on Hito Steyerl 28 Apr 2019 Projects Curator, Amal Khalaf and Assistant Projects Curator, Elizabeth Graham lead a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request, visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: plants in common 27 to 28 Apr 2019 Artists One Of My Kind (OOMK) invited children and their families to come together to think about what we give and take from the natural world.
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Kay Watson on Hito Steyerl 27 Apr 2019 Curator, Kay Watson leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: Constantine Gras 27 Apr 2019 Constantine Gras, a former artist-in-residence for Grenfell Tower, lead Washing Dirty Linen in Public, a multi-vocal performative walk that uncovered the histories of resistance and reproductive labour in North Kensington.
Past - Learn, School Educators Evening 24 Apr 2019 Serpentine Education invites teachers to attend a late opening of the current exhibitions Emma Kunz - Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou and Hito Steyerl: Power Plants.
Past - Learn, School The Spring Studio: Belinda Zhawi 23 Apr 2019 Poet and writer Belinda Zhawi, the Serpentine's Schools Artist-in-Residence 2019, led a series of creative writing workshops with school groups.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: Architects for Social Housing 13 Apr 2019 Architects for Social Housing (ASH) lead a walk to explore how increasing privatisation and legislation affects our ability to access the city and how these changes contribute to the housing crisis.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walks 13 Apr 2019 A series of guided neighbourhood walks and a tour led by Hito Steyerl's Actual RealityOS research partners; Architects for Social Housing, Disabled People Against Cuts, The Voice of Domestic Workers and artist
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Eva Jäger on Hito Steyerl 13 Apr 2019 Assistant Curator, Eva Jäger leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live PLANTSEX 12 Apr 2019 On the occasion of the exhibition of visionary artist and healer Emma Kunz, the Serpentine Galleries' General Ecology project presented an evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany
Past - Live AION A: A Workshop on Emma Kunz's Healing Practice 31 Mar 2019 On the occasion of Emma Kunz's exhibition, homeopath Jacqueline G. Schaerer led a practical workshop on the uses of Kunz's healing rock, AION A.
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema & General Ecology: On Earth at The Long Now 30 Mar 2019 Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with MaerzMusik and Berlin Atonal present Serpentine Cinema & General Ecology: On Earth at The Long Now, with films by Sophia Al-Maria, Matthew Burdis, Alexander George and James Capper, Cao Guimarães and
Past - Sound, Live, Learn Podcasting for the Arts with Reduced Listening 27 Mar 2019 A workshop exploring the role podcasts and bespoke audio content can play for art institutions.
Past - Live The Creativity Code: Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 18 Mar 2019 To celebrate the publication of his latest book, The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think, Marcus du Sautoy was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Jasleen Kaur 16 Mar 2019 Artist Jasleen Kaur discussed her practice and recent projects. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within materials and objects.
Past - Live, Exhibition A Time for New Dreams: Eating At the Same Table Reading Group 15 Mar 2019 Eating At The Same Table hosted an evening reading group to discuss and digest the ideas explored in Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time For New Dreams. Drawing on texts, sounds and hymns featured in the exhibition and beyond, the evening
Past - Live As Told To G/D Thyself: Kamasi Washington in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 1 Mar 2019 To celebrate the UK premiere of As Told To G/D Thyself, Kamasi Washington was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries. Washington’s new short film is presented by The Store X, Young Turks and Serpentine
Past - Exhibition As Told To G/D Thyself: Kamasi Washington 1 Mar 2019 The Store X, Young Turks and Serpentine Galleries presented the UK premiere of Kamasi Washington’s new short film As Told To G/D Thyself at The Store X, 180 The Strand, London.
Past - Live Marina Abramović: The Life 19 Feb 2019 Art and technology combined for a world first with Marina Abramović, the pioneering performance artist, and the presentation of her performance: The Life in Mixed Reality (a wearable augmented experience).
Past - Live, Exhibition An Exercise in Balance 16 Feb 2019 Artist and dancer MJ Harper devised a performance in the context of Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams.
Past - Live, Exhibition A Study for An Exercise in Balance 12 to 13 Feb 2019 Artist and dancer MJ Harper took residence within Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams, performing a daily ritual of movements ahead of An Exercise in Balance.
Past - Live, Exhibition All My Youngers 8 Feb 2019 Poet, writer and broadcaster Kei Miller was joined by a choir for a special reading inside Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition, A Time for New Dreams. The evening also featured poet and DJ James Massiah who presented a series of readings, with
Past - Live Future Contemporaries: Mystery Nights 2019 7 Feb 2019 The Future Contemporaries ‘Mystery Nights’ was a fundraising initiative to raise awareness of the Future Contemporaries membership scheme. All proceeds went towards the Future Contemporaries Emerging Artist Fund.
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Albert Oehlen 1 Feb 2019 Assistant Exhibitions Curator Joseph Constable leads a tour of the Albert Oehlen exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Sound A Time for New Dreams: Klein 23 Jan 2019 Composer and playwright Klein presented a reading in the context of Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth and Gardening 22 Jan 2019 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing humans' impact on the biosphere and the environment. The fourth and final
Past - Live, Sound Devotional Sound 19 Jan 2019 Following the opening of A Time for New Dreams at Serpentine Galleries, Grace Wales Bonner presented a devotional sound evening at St John’s Church, featuring Sampha, Laraaji, Klein and special guests.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Sound A Time for New Dreams: Laraaji 18 Jan 2019 On 18 and 20 January, musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner, Laraaji led a series of workshops during the opening days of the Grace Wales Bonner exhibition that became a lasting shrine of sound.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Missing and Memory 14 Jan 2019 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing humans' impact on the biosphere and the environment.
Past - Learn, Language and Power ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre Publication Workshop Launch 12 Jan 2019 ACT ESOL presented their new publication ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre at Conway Hall on 12 January 2019.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution 11 Dec 2018 A London LASER / Serpentine Cinema special screening of John Feldman's fascinating documentary explored the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Poison and Place 10 Dec 2018 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing machines, infrastructure and its impact on the biosphere and the environment.
Past - Live, Film Symposium: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: we have never been one 1 Dec 2018 The second instalment of this year-long symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project, features anthropologists, artists, robotics experts, historians and scientists, to address interior multitude, swarming
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Melissa Blanchflower on Atelier E.B 1 Dec 2018 Curator, Melissa Blanchflower, led a tour of the Atelier E.B: Passer-by exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Structure and Sadness 1 Nov 2018 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing machines, infrastructure and its impact on the biosphere and landscapes. The
Past - Learn, Research Radio Earth Hold 28 Oct 2018 Hosted and supported by Serpentine Projects, Earth Hold organised a day of live broadcasts, listening sessions, and discussion on 28 October to coincide with the end of Qalandiya International in Palestine.
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Atelier E.B 27 Oct 2018 Assistant Curator, Joseph Constable, led a tour of the Atelier E.B: Passer-by exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Hall of Mirroring 13 to 14 Oct 2018 Children and their families playfully posed as mannequins in a temporarily mirrored studio.
Past - Learn, School The Autumn Studio: Zinzi Minott 9 Oct 2018 Artist and dancer Zinzi Minott led a series of movement-based workshops with children and young people.
Past - Live Pierre Huyghe in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 3 Oct 2018 Serpentine Galleries and Artsy presented a conversation with Pierre Huyghe and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries to discuss Pierre Huyghe's exhibition where the gallery has become a porous and contingent environment,
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Cooking Sections: SHELL-FISH 27 Sep 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 27
Past - Marathon Work Marathon 22 Sep 2018 The 2018 Work Marathon invited artists, sociologists, anthropologists, writers, musicians, architects, scientists and philosophers to address the complex and timely questions of work, labour, automation and leisure.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Pedro Reyes, Manufacturing Mischief 21 Sep 2018 Pedro Reyes staged an ideological-science-fiction-comedy that addressed the risks of AI, automation and the post-truth infosphere. Manufacturing Mischief is a puppet-play by Pedro Reyes in which the protagonist, Noam Chomsky, finds an antagonist
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Ghetto Gastro: YAMS 20 Sep 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presents a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 20
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Megan Rooney, SUN DOWN MOON UP 14 Sep 2018 Megan Rooney used the Pavilion as a site for storytelling, filling it with movement, words and sound. SUN DOWN MOON UP, a performance about a group of female magpies that invade Mount Athos, explores metaphors of nature, the human subject and the
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Mazí Mas: RICE 13 Sep 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 13
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Candida Powell-Williams, Lessness, still quorum 8 Sep 2018 Artist Candida Powell-Williams presents the performance Lessness, still quorum in and around the Serpentine Pavilion.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Yaeji 7 Sep 2018 Yaeji performed an original work exploring the connectivity of her musical influences with UK dance and electronic music through deconstructed and recontextualised compositions. The audience was blindfolded and accompanied by an immersive sound
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Territorial Agency: FOSSILS 6 Sep 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 6
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Arabeschi di Latte (Francesca Sarti): CLAY 30 Aug 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presents a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 30
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Daniella Valz Gen: POTATO 23 Aug 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 23
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Becoming Chac Mool 11 to 12 Aug 2018 Artists Harold Offeh and Veronica Cordova de la Rosa invited children and their families to create costumes inspired by Chac Mool, a reclining sculpture found on the top of Mexican temples and pyramids.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: TELFAR, NOT FOR YOU, FOR EVERYONE 10 Aug 2018 Founded in 2005, unisex fashion line TELFAR was ignored by the mainstream fashion press for a decade due to its non-racial/non-gendered vision of fashion. Since winning the 2017 Vogue/CFDA fashion fund, TELFAR has been developing a mode of
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Angus Cameron: MERCURY 9 Aug 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 9
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Christo and Jeanne-Claude 4 Aug 2018 Assistant curator, Joseph Constable, led a tour of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Barrels and The Mastaba (1958–2018). BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Kamasi Washington 3 Aug 2018 Following the release of his anticipated second album Heaven and Earth, celebrated saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band came together for a dynamic, improvisational performance that opened the door to a music experience
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Victoria Sin, The sky as an image, an image as a net 27 Jul 2018 Victoria Sin presented a ballad of embodiment, longing and transformation, using poetry, drag, science fiction and an original soundtrack by Shy One. Drawing from seminal works of social science fiction and reflective, speculative encounters of
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Zinzi Minott: SUGAR 26 Jul 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Meriem Bennani, Avatar Idol 20 Jul 2018 Meriem Bennani, with musician and composer Flavien Berger, devised Avatar Idol, a live virtual dance battle, integrating motion-capture technology, 3D animation and a digital avatar. This freestyle dance-off traced the artist’s interlaced
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Fozia Ismail: CHILLI 19 Jul 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 19
Past - Live An Evening with Christo 16 Jul 2018 On the occasion of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018 at Serpentine Galleries, Christo talked about works in the exhibition from the last six decades, which also coincides with The London Mastaba, a temporary
Past - Exhibition, Live, Literature Catalogue Signing: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958 – 2018 15 Jul 2018 Join us on Sunday 15 July, from 4pm until 5pm at the Serpentine Gallery, when Christo will be signing the catalogue for the exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018.
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Readings, in collaboration with The White Review: Alex Bell, A. K. Blakemore and John McCullogh 14 Jul 2018 Serpentine Galleries and The White Review present an afternoon of poetry. With Alex Bell, A. K. Blakemore and John McCullogh.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2018: Dorothy Iannone, Movie People Perpetual Performance 13 Jul 2018 Dorothy Iannone presented Movie People Perpetual Performance, an evening based on her ongoing Movie People project, featuring a series of wooden cut-out characters that Iannone started in the 1960s. Assembling all her Movie People together for
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live, Literature, Film, Sound Park Nights 2018 13 Jul 2018 Park Nights, the Serpentine's annual series of experimental and interdisciplinary encounters, returned in 2018 to present eight international artists each responding to the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion designed by the award-winning architect Frida
Past - Live, Learn Radical Kitchen 2018: Formafantasma and Alice Rawsthorn: GOLD 12 Jul 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 12
Past - Learn, Rights to the City? The Summer Studio: Zinzi Minott 9 Jul 2018 Artist and dancer Zinzi Minott led a series of movement based workshops with children and young people.
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Melissa Blanchflower on Christo and Jeanne-Claude 7 Jul 2018 Curator, Melissa Blanchflower, leads a tour of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba (1958–2018) BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Learn, Live, Rights to the City? Play as Radical Practice workshop with Albert Potrony 4 Jul 2018 Artist Albert Potrony invited educators to debate school readiness using the Play as Radical Practice toolkit.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: We are the real sculptures! 30 Jun to 1 Jul 2018 Artist Harold Offeh invited children and their families to think about themselves as sculptural material.
Past - Live New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future: James Bridle in conversation with Ben Vickers 28 Jun 2018 Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with Verso and the Goethe-Institut presented an evening with artist and writer James Bridle on the occasion of the publication of his new book New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. James Bridle was
Past - Live, Learn, Changing play Radical Kitchen 2018: Jasleen Kaur: GRAIN 28 Jun 2018 Building on the Radical Kitchen: Recipes for Building Community and Creating Change programme launched in 2017, Serpentine presented a second season of its lunchtime gatherings in the Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Frida Escobedo. On Thursday 28
Past - Learn, Live, Rights to the City? Here is the Place: larping for educators with Adam James 23 Jun 2018 Educators are invited to join artist Adam James to imagine different ways of being together in school using strategies from Nordic live action role-play (larp).
Past - Live, Pavilion Serpentine Architecture: Frida Escobedo in conversation 12 Jun 2018 Architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, was in conversation with architect and educator Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and researcher Marina Otero Verzier and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director,
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Sophio Medoidze, AB-JOY 9 Jun 2018 Sophio Medoidze screened a selection of her video work alongside Sergei Parajanov’s Kiyv Frescoes (1965-66). Following the screening Sophio Medoidze was joined by lecturer and film curator Maria Palacios Cruz, while artist
Past - Live, Film Symposium: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, Part 1: Language 28 May 2018 Artists, dancers, writers and scientists gathered at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication.
Past - Learn, Live, Rights to the City? The Perfect School? workshop with Paul Maheke 24 May 2018 Artist Paul Maheke invited educators to come together to discuss what makes a perfect school.
Past - Learn, Rights to the City? Dark Sousveillance: a workshop with Simone Browne, Sondra Perry and Mia Charlene White 15 May 2018 Taking our cue from Simone Browne’s Dark Matters, this workshop was concerned with understanding the ways in which individuals and communities are affected by daily narratives of dominance, oppression and racialised surveillance.
Past - Learn, Rights to the City? Implicated Theatre: An Open Theatre of the Oppressed workshop with Frances Rifkin 13 May 2018 A free introductory workshop to Theatre of the Oppressed with Implicated Theatre and theatre director Frances Rifkin.
Past - Learn, Live, Rights to the City? Rights To The City? Forum 12 May 2018 How can we re-imagine the communities we live in? What does social practice in arts education look like today? As London neighbourhoods continue to feel the effects of austerity and gentrification, the Serpentine presented Rights to the City?, a
Past - Film, Exhibition, Live Serpentine Cinema: Sondra Perry and Cauleen Smith 11 May 2018 Serpentine Cinema presented the films of Cauleen Smith, followed by a conversation between herself and the artist Sondra Perry.
Past - Learn, School The Spring Studio: Zinzi Minott 2 May 2018 Artist and dancer Zinzi Minott led a series of movement based workshops with children and young people.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Our Album 28 to 29 Apr 2018 Artist Harold Offeh invited children and their families to work together to create imagined music album covers.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Family Portraits with BOB 22 Apr 2018 Visit the Ian Cheng exhibition and have your portrait drawn with BOB.
Past - Live, Literature, Film Jonas Mekas, Conversations with Film-Makers 10 Apr 2018 Presented by the Lithuanian Culture Institute in partnership with MUBI and Serpentine Cinema, this evening featured the pioneering film-maker Jonas Mekas in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as a screening of his 2012 film, Outtakes
Past - Live Exotourisme: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 10 Apr 2018 Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, the Hayward and Corvi-Mora galleries present a live concert and release party for the debut EP from Exotourisme a.k.a Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Julian Perez.
Past - Live Typhoon coming on: An evening with Sondra Perry, Justin Allen, Sable Elyse Smith and Diamond Stingily 6 Apr 2018 This evening comprised of readings and performances inside Sondra Perry's exhibition - Typhoon coming on - at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Live All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Laurie Anderson in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 5 Apr 2018 Serpentine Galleries and the London Review Bookshop present an evening with Laurie Anderson on the occasion of the publication All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code. Laurie Anderson will be in conversation with
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Kay Watson on Ian Cheng 17 Mar 2018 Assistant Digital Curator, Kay Watson leads a tour of the Ian Cheng exhibition.
Past - Live, Literature, Sound Afterglow (A Dog Memoir): a book launch, reading and conversation with Eileen Myles, Ruth Novaczek and Filipa Ramos, and a performance by Mira Calix 13 Mar 2018 Serpentine Galleries presented an evening at Kings Place with Eileen Myles on the occasion of the publication of Myles's latest book, Afterglow (A Dog Memoir). Throughout the evening, Myles, who will be reading from Afterglow, was
Past - Live, Exhibition, Family Portraits with BOB 11 Mar 2018 Visit the Ian Cheng exhibition and have your portrait drawn with BOB.
Past - Live, Exhibition Ian Cheng in conversation with Nora Khan and Ben Vickers 6 Mar 2018 Artist Ian Cheng is joined by writer Nora Khan and Serpentine Galleries CTO Ben Vickers to discuss his exhibition at the Serpentine, the history of human consciousness, emergent forms of intelligence and non-human entities.
Past - Live Lee Ufan in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 6 Feb 2018 Lee Ufan was in conversation with Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Korean Cultural Centre UK.
Past - Live, Sound James Campbell: Sound Performance 6 Feb 2018 To mark the close of Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier Abridged, artist James Campbell presented a sound performance using amplification, electronic processing and feedback to define potential spaces within the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: Memories in Motion 4 Feb 2018 Children and families joined artist duo Kaleidoworks for an afternoon of playful drawing and moving image experiments.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Adam James 27 Jan 2018 Artist Adam James discussed his practice and recent projects.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Alex Israel, SPF-18 17 Jan 2018 Artist and filmmaker Alex Israel presented his first feature-length film, SPF-18, as part of Serpentine Cinema at Curzon Mayfair.
Past - Live Rose Wylie in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 12 Dec 2017 Artist Rose Wylie discussed her practice and her Serpentine Sackler Gallery exhibition, QUACK QUACK, with Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist. This conversation took place at the Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, SW7 2PH.
Past - Live, Literature J. H. Prynne Reading 29 Nov 2017 On the occasion of Rose Wylie's exhibition, Quack Quack, celebrated poet J. H. Prynne read a selection of works during the exhibition's preview evening.
Past - Live Public Talk: Irma Boom, programmed in collaboration with Wade Guyton 20 Nov 2017 Graphic designer and bookmaker Irma Boom discussed her practice within Wade Guyton's exhibition, in an evening programmed in collaboration with the artist.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Adelita Husni-Bey, Four Films 14 Nov 2017 Artist Adelita Husni-Bey presented four recent films as part of Serpentine Cinema at Peckhamplex: The Reading/La Seduta (2017, 15'33', premièred at the Venice Biennale 2017); 2265 (2015, 12'23''); After the Finish Line
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Adelita Husni-Bey 11 Nov 2017 Artist Adelita Husni-Bey discussed her influences and practice, which focuses on the complexity of collectivity.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Bouchra Khalili 24 Oct 2017 Serpentine Cinema presented the London premiere of Bouchra Khalili’s The Tempest Society (2017).
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Why Do We See What We Do Not See? 21 to 22 Oct 2017 Children and their families joined artist duo Sisters From Another Mister to explore the idea of the body as a camera.
Past - Marathon, Live GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon 7 Oct 2017 The 2017 Marathon brought together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’,
Past - Marathon, Live, Film UK Premières and conversations: Manthia Diawara and Sarah Morris: An evening in two parts 6 Oct 2017 As a prelude to the 2017 GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon, filmmaker and theorist Manthia Diawara and artist Sarah Morris première their new films and discuss them with Hans Ulrich Obrist. 7pm: Sarah Morris presents Finite
Past - Film Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death 5 Oct 2017 Following his critically-acclaimed Serpentine exhibition, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa exhibited Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016) in a site-specific
Past - Live Raqs Media Collective: Hollowgram 3 Oct 2017 On the occasion of the GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon 2017, Raqs Media Collective presented Hollowgram, a new holographic sculpture commission which considers the inner life of power.
Past - Learn, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Jorge Menna Barreto 30 Sep 2017 Artist Jorge Menna Barreto presents his project ‘Londelion’ in our first Unwritten Handbook this autumn. Jorge Menna Barreto imagines wild edibles as a site-specific food that speaks to and teaches our bodies and cells
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2017: Micachu, Brother May, Coby Sey, Mohamed, Bianca Scout and installation by chats 29 Sep 2017 Micachu, Brother May and Coby Sey, who collaborate as Curl, appeared alongside operatic singer Mohamed, Bianca Scout and an installation by chats. Making use of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion’s dynamic and unique space, all the
Past - Live David Mramor: Gong Bath 28 Sep 2017 Artist David Mramor presented a performance during the evening preview of Wade Guyton's exhibition, Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged, at the Serpentine Gallery. The performance was programmed in collaboration with Wade Guyton.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Joseph Grigely, Blueberry Surprise 22 Sep 2017 Joseph Grigely presented a play for three voices. Grigely, who is deaf, communicates with people who do not know sign language by asking them to write things down. These inscribed notes, collected over a period of ten years and edited into a new
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Eleanor Antin; Me, Myself and I 15 Sep 2017 In Me, Myself and I, artist Eleanor Antin read from three autobiographies; Conversations with Stalin, An Artist’s Life: Eleanora Antinova and Being Antinova, each authored by a different one of her selves.
Past - Learn, School Build Your Own Pavilion and RIBA TeachMeet 12 Sep 2017 The RIBA learning team and Build Your Own Pavilion, the Serpentine’s national campaign to inspire young architects, invite teachers and architects to explore how to share architecture in the curriculum in this free CPD session. It will also
Past - Live Listening Session: Arthur Jafa with Steve Coleman, Morgan Craft, Micah Gaugh, Melvin Gibbs, Jason Moran and Okwui Okpokwasili 9 Sep 2017 During the final weekend of his solo exhibition at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, acclaimed artist, filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa presents a Listening Session with Steve Coleman,
Past - Learn, Live, Cracks in the Curriculum Cracks in the Curriculum: Countless Ways of Knowing 2 Sep 2017 Artist Barby Asante invited educators to come together to think about how to open up conversations about race and racism in the classroom.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Shen Xin; half-sung, half-spoken 25 Aug 2017 Artist Shen Xin unveiled a live interpretation of her films, exploring criticism as an embodied emotional state.
Past - Learn, Pavilion, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Public Playground 19 to 20 Aug 2017 What are the spaces for play in your neighbourhood? Artist Albert Potrony, children and families to came together to consider the importance of play in public space.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Black Quantum Futurism 18 Aug 2017 Black Quantum Futurism Collective (BQF) is an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalised communities.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon, The Tragedy of Theresa May 12 Aug 2017 NO DEATH IS NATURAL! ALL DEATH IS MAN-MADE! The Tragedy of Theresa May is a dialectical cry from the moral depths of England. [Theatre Performance, 35 mins]
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Rebecca Lewin on Grayson Perry (BSL Interpretation) 5 Aug 2017 Curator, Rebecca Lewin led a tour of the exhibition Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!, with British Sign Language interpretation by Jeni Draper.
Past - Live Artist Talk: Grayson Perry 24 Jul 2017 Grayson Perry talked about his work and his Serpentine exhibition, The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Readings, in collaboration with The White Review 22 Jul 2017 Serpentine and The White Review presented live readings by Iphgenia Baal, Charlie Fox and Nisha Ramayya inside the summer exhibition, Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Flagmania 22 to 23 Jul 2017 Artists Namuun Zimmermann and Rike Glaser (Common Initiative) invited families to come together to create flags for times of separation and uncertainty.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Tamara Henderson, Seasons End: Out of Body 21 Jul 2017 Tamara Henderson’s Seasons End: Out of Body was a choreography for film, twenty-four frames per second. Costumed nomadic species moved through character phases, embodying their pasts in the present, collectively pulsing a plot
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Bouchra Ouizguen, Corbeaux 14 Jul 2017 Corbeaux was performed by ten women from Morocco and ten from London, brought together in a series of workshops. Forming geometric alchemical arrangements, the performers made piercing sounds and extraordinary cries in a stirring display of movement
Past - Live Intimate Trespass: Hapticality, Waywardness, and the Practice of Entanglement 8 Jul 2017 On the occasion of Arthur Jafa's exhibition, Professor Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University) joined scholars, artists and writers to discuss themes from her landmark text, Scenes of Subjection, including questions of political economy and ecology
Past - Live, Pavilion Radical Kitchen 2017 5 Jul 2017 Inspired by Francis Kéré’s stories of gathering, debate and community around a tree in his village of Gando, Burkina Faso, the Serpentine Pavilion 2017 became host to a series of community picnic talks this summer, Radical Kitchen: Recipes for
Past - Learn, Live, School The Studio: Here is the Place 4 Jul 2017 Year 5 and 6 students joined artist Adam James to develop collective identities, borrowing techniques from Nordic live action role play (larp).
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2017: Arthur Jafa 30 Jun 2017 Cinematographer and artist Arthur Jafa hosted an evening in response to his summer exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2017 30 Jun 2017 A summer of Park Nights, the Serpentine's annual series of experimental and interdisciplinary encounters, sited in the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion designed by the award-winning architect Francis Kéré.
Past - Live, Pavilion Serpentine Architecture: Francis Kéré in Conversation 26 Jun 2017 Berlin-based architect and designer of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion, Francis Kéré was in conversation with Stefano Boeri (Stefano Boeri Architetti), Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director,
Past - Learn, Live, Language and Power Speak Back 24 Jun 2017 Speak Back is a series of storytelling workshops and public performances that looks at media narratives of global conflict and migration, exploring how these narratives shape attitudes to people displaced by conflict.
Past - Learn, Live, School The Studio: The Perfect School? 13 Jun 2017 Artist Paul Maheke led a week of performative workshops designed for Year 5 and 6 students to explore alternative school futures.
Past - Live Symposium: A Social Body Event 20 May 2017 This symposium-like event, beginning from John Latham's concept of the 'Body Event', was organised by Cally Spooner as part of her participation in the group exhibition 'Speak' at Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Learn, Changing play The Early Years Atelier 9 May 2017 Albert Portony's Early Years Atelier was a studio opening out into the park, a space where groups of children were invited to explore a range of open-ended materials according to their own interests.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Lung Songs - An Experimental Choir 6 to 7 May 2017 Throughout a two-day voice workshop, artist Jenny Moore and a group of singers from F*CHOIR, invited families to join their temporary experimental choir.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Rehana Zaman 22 Apr 2017 Rehana Zaman discusses her practice and recent projects. Her work considers the interplay of multiple social dynamics that constitute subjects along particular socio-political formations.
Past - Live United in Stomach Flu, London Weeps 21 Apr 2017 Cally Spooner presented a reading from her novel in progress, interspersed with some unwritten thoughts for 2017, on states of rehearsal, Galileo's telescope, out-of-work speech writers, sweat, shame, structured reality, fake news, false tears
Past - Learn, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Helene Kazan in conversation with Rania Stephan 6 Apr 2017 Helene Kazan begins her residency with Serpentine Galleries Projects with lecture performance ‘Imperiled House'. The residency, which takes place through a series of walks and reading groups, outlines the ongoing need for investigation into
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema: John Latham and Laure Prouvost 28 Mar 2017 Laure Prouvost introduced films by John Latham and screened a selection of her own works.
Past - Live Pedagogies of the Ear 22 Mar 2017 Pedagogies of the Ear investigated acts of listening as a critical register of social and political life, in order to break with linear models of teaching that pursue objective comprehension.
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (Day Two) 16 Mar 2017 The encoded values of the human face make up the latest iteration of the artist’s concern with the tracing of care. The evening was comprised of an image repository—of others’ and the artist’s latest making—delineating
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema: Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (Day One) 15 Mar 2017 Maryam Monalisa Gharavi hosted an intimate public studio visit in which the artist walked through a genealogy of her visual work, especially concerning language/legibility, earth/ground, and care/security. She shared completed works, research images,
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: Paper Utopia 11 Feb 2017 Studio OOMK invited families to design and construct their own utopian cityscapes.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Lucy Raven in conversation with Arthur Jafa 9 Feb 2017 Artist Lucy Raven in conversation with artist, filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa with a special screening of two films: Apex (2013) and Mechanics of Empathy (in progress).
Past - Live, Sound The Magazine Sessions 2016: Anthea Hamilton: Grasses 12 Dec 2016 Presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust and with the participation of The Magazine restaurant, the multi-disciplinary series The Magazine Sessions 2016 concluded with a new immersive performance, Grasses, by Anthea Hamilton.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Paul Maheke 10 Dec 2016 Paul Maheke discussed his practice in the Serpentine Galleries Education Space.
Past - Learn, Language and Power Launch: Working Conversations? 10 Dec 2016 On 10 December 2016 we launched Working Conversations? a series of educational videos produced through a partnership between Implicated Theatre and London Metropolitan University as part of the IR Multiling project.
Past - Film Serpentine Cinema: Lucy Raven 8 Dec 2016 On the occasion of Lucy Raven’s solo exhibition, the artist programmed a series of screenings in multiple locations that brought together works by artists, documentary footage, and feature-length films. Introduced by leading film theorists,
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Phil Tippett and Lucy Raven, Starship Troopers 8 Dec 2016 On the occasion of Lucy Raven’s solo exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, the artist has programmed a series of screenings in multiple locations bringing together works by artists, documentary footage, and feature-length films. On 8 December, the artist
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Endless Poetry (Poesia Sin Fin) 24 Nov 2016 Serpentine Cinema presented the London premiere of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s newest film, Endless Poetry (Poesia Sin Fin). Followed by a conversation between Jodorowsky and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Past - Live, Sound The Magazine Sessions 2016: Christian Holstad, red, yellow, lime, pink, lavender, green, scarlet, lavender, scarlet, green, lavender 21 Nov 2016 Presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust and with the participation of The Magazine restaurant, the multi-disciplinary series The Magazine Sessions begins again in late autumn. In November, Christian Holstad and collaborators presented red,
Past - Learn, Cracks in the Curriculum Cracks in the Curriculum: Reclaiming Shakespeare 17 Nov 2016 Theatre Director Frances Rifkin led a performative workshop for educators exploring Shakespeare through the lens of radical political theatre.
Past - Learn, Live, School, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Harold Offeh 22 Oct 2016 Harold Offeh presented a talk on his practice in the Serpentine Galleries Education Space.
Past - Marathon, Live, Literature, Film, Sound, Online Miracle Marathon 8 Oct 2016 The Serpentine’s annual festival of ideas brought together practitioners from the fields of activism, art, anthropology, architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theology and science to focus on ritual, imagination and magical thinking. The
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: Haus Party 1 Oct 2016 Artist Joceline Howe hosted a Haus Party at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Sound Park Nights 2016: BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, with Bas Jan, Adam Christensen, yeah you and Evan Ifekoya 23 Sep 2016 A live recording of BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction in the Serpentine Pavilion, that featured live sets by musicians and artists.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2016: Jala Wahid, And I'll Promise You 16 Sep 2016 Artist Jala Wahid brought together existing music, personal and collective histories, as well as her practice as a sculptor and film-maker, in an evening that explored collective affect, longing and love
Past - Live Liam Gillick: Industry and Intelligence 15 Sep 2016 To celebrate the London launch of Liam Gillick’s book Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 (Columbia University Press), the artist presented a reading accompanied by a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Helen Cammock 13 Sep 2016 As part of Serpentine Cinema, artist Helen Cammock presented the première of her new film work There's a Hole in the Sky Part II; Listening to James Baldwin alongside her recent film, There's a Hole in the Sky Part I and two performances, Song and
Past - Learn, Literature, Cracks in the Curriculum Cracks in the Curriculum: Poetry from the Personal 8 Sep 2016 Octavia Poetry Collective led a workshop for educators exploring poetry as a method to understand and develop personal identities.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Dumb Bells 27 Aug 2016 Artist Beatriz Olabarrieta presented a new durational performance and install that evolved over the course of the day. Dumb Bells consists of a set of five minimal plays that reference the first-ever book written entirely by the artificial
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Dear friends, 20 to 21 Aug 2016 Artist Katie Schwab and families worked together to explore different forms of life writing, using colour, shape and language to express and abstract their everyday experiences.
Past - Live, Literature, Film, Sound Love, War and Other Gestures: A Study Evening 16 Aug 2016 Inspired by Etel Adnan's literary and philosophical teachings, this study evening conjured love and other poetic gestures in the face of violence, featuring talks, screenings and other interventions. The evening included talks by Omar Berrada,
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Zadie Xa, Linguistic Legacies and Lunar Exploration 13 Aug 2016 Artist Zadie Xa presented a new live work that brought together dancers, painted and sculptural elements. Inspired by Talchum, or Korean Mask Drama, Linguistic Legacies and Lunar Exploration followed a non-linear narrative, seeking magic, rituals and
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2016: Silas Riener, Thinging: Dance and Translation and the Work of Anne Carson 12 Aug 2016 Through the articulation of his body, choreographer and dancer Silas Riener explored the potential of dance in describing things. This performance was inspired by world histories, personal histories, as well as the work of poet, translator, and
Past - Live, Sound Saturdays Live: Rie Nakajima, Low 30 Jul 2016 Artist Rie Nakajima presented a sound performance, titled Low, at the Serpentine Gallery, inspired by the exhibition by Alex Katz.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2016: Brian Belott, with Billy Grant, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Matthew Thurber and Tyson Reeder 22 Jul 2016 This performance programme inspired by Dada, devised collectively by the artists, featured madcap and anarchic objects breaking into song and Finnegan’s Wake, slapstick, whim wham and whazzup fluid. A zebra was played like a harp: a Zarp.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: Form, Perform, Transform, Go! 16 to 17 Jul 2016 Families joined artist Renata Bandeira for a weekend of shape-shifting sculpture and movement.
Past - Live Tuesdays Live: Marcos Lutyens, Chromalalia 5 Jul 2016 Responding to Etel Adnan's The Weight of the World, artist Marcos Lutyens presented an immersive, hypnosis performance within the exhibition, inspired by the words and colours in Adnan's literary and visual work.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: The School and the Neighbourhood 2 Jul 2016 Stephanie Cubbin, Chris Jones and Janna Graham launched ‘The School and the Neighbourhood: A Subverted Curriculum’ a curriculum for use by teachers and students to bring their schools into conversation with their local area.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Language and Power Park Nights 2016: Towards a Radio Ballad: Songs of the Journey 24 Jun 2016 Implicated Theatre, presented a participatory evening of theatrical interventions and sound compositions developed from a year-long collaboration with unionised migrant hotel workers from Unite’s Hotel Workers Branch as part of the Edgware Road
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2016: Buffalo Head: A Democratic Storytelling Experience 17 Jun 2016 An evening of storytelling and collective decision-making, inspired by folktales from the South of Italy, which saw the audience take part in shaping a narrative. Presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust on the occasion of the Trust’s
Past - Park Nights, Live, Literature, Film Park Nights 2016: Fred Moten, Eileen Myles and Sondra Perry 10 Jun 2016 Poets Fred Moten and Eileen Myles presented readings in The Royal Geographical Soceity. Multidisciplinary artist Sondra Perry responded to this context with a moving-image intervention.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2016 prelude: Serpentine Architecture Programme conversations 8 Jun 2016 Bjarke Ingels, Kunlé Adeyemi, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, Yona Friedman and Asif Khan discussed their designs for the 2016 Pavilion and Summer Houses with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in a series of panels moderated by Vicky
Past - Live, Literature Public Talk: An Evening of Poetry, curated by Vincent Katz 2 Jun 2016 Poets Etel Adnan, Elaine Equi, Peter Gizzi, John Godfrey and Vincent Katz gathered in the Alex Katz exhibition for an evening of poetry readings. With the participation of Alex Katz.
Past - Live, Literature Public Talk: Etel Adnan and Robert Grenier 1 Jun 2016 A reading by Robert Grenier and conversation with Etel Adnan in The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, inaugurating Adnan’s exhibition during its opening view.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema and Conference: Focus on the Funk: Journeys... 20 May 2016 On the occasion of the conference, Focus on the Funk: Journeys... at Birkbeck College, Serpentine Galleries and Birkbeck presented three days of screenings bringing together moving-image work by artists, documentaries and essay films addressing the
Past - Live The Magazine Sessions 2016: Celia Hempton, Tor, with Sam Hempton, Mary Margaret Rinebold and Thea Smith 16 May 2016 Taking place monthly during spring, winter and late autumn, The Magazine Sessions is a new series of experimental and immersive events taking place in The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: A line is a dot that went for a walk 15 May 2016 Families joined designer Marie O’Connor to create a collaborative installation that twisted, rolled, wrapped, hooked and walked around the Education Studio.
Past - Live, Film A Mysterical Day 14 May 2016 Inspired by the life and work of Hilma af Klint, as well as the exhibition of DAS INSTITUT, this study day brought together artists, writers and historians to explore mysticism, feminism and performance. Programmed in collaboration with artist Tai
Past - Learn, Live, Cracks in the Curriculum Cracks in the Curriculum: Sex Re-Education 12 May 2016 Are you hot-blooded about sexual consent? Quite concerned about the influence of pornography on perceptions of sex / gender / class / race? Frustrated by the lack of sex education in schools? Bedfellows want YOU to join us inside this mess.
Past - Live Seeing is Believing: A Seminar on Hilma af Klint's importance today 9 May 2016 Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and the Serpentine Galleries presented a seminar on artist Hilma af Klint on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen at the Serpentine Gallery. With Kurt Almqvist, Daniel
Past - Learn, Live, Language and Power ACT ESOL: Language, resistance, theatre 7 May 2016 Teacher Becky Winstanley and Implicated Theatre Director Frances Rifkin discussed ACT ESOL, an ongoing theatre and language education project that combines Theatre of the Oppressed and Participatory ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
Past - Learn, Live, Literature, Neighbourhood Church Street Local Projects Shelf 4 May 2016 On Wednesday 4th May the Church Street Local Projects Shelf launched - a community-run bookshelf for Church Street Library.
Past - Live, Sound Saturdays Live: Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai’i with Ei Arakawa in Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen 30 Apr 2016 As part of the exhibition by DAS INSTITUT, their frequent collaborator, artist Ei Arakawa presented a performance with Hawaiian dance group Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai’i. Linking the two Galleries, the evening performance took place in the
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Bedfellows 30 Apr 2016 Bedfellows led a discussion through a past, future, present of their engagement with the Serpentine Gallery's education programme.
Past - Live Daytime performances: Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai’i with Ei Arakawa in DAS INSTITUT 29 Apr 2016 As part of the exhibition by DAS INSTITUT, their frequent collaborator, artist Ei Arakawa presented performance interventions with Hawaiian dance group Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawai’i at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery at 2, 3, 4 and 5pm on the
Past - Live The Magazine Sessions 2016: Emily Sundblad, Juliana Huxtable, Ken Okiishi and Musarc 18 Apr 2016 Emily Sundblad's Dichterliebe/Divine Bitches Part Two is an erotic collage operetta featuring Juliana Huxtable. It is the second instalment of the collaborative performance work originally conceived for The Kitchen, New York, in April 2015. Texts
Past - Sound, Live, Online Invocations for Hilma af Klint on Serpentine Radio, with Leah Clements, Clodagh Emoe, Daria Martin and Zadie Xa 12 Apr 2016 On the occasion of the exhibition, Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, artists were invited to produce sound pieces for Serpentine Radio responding to the idea of an ‘invocation’ through the prism of their own practice. Contributions
Past - Exhibition Serpentine Galleries in Milan: A Search Behind Appearances 12 Apr 2016 A Search Behind Appearances is a unique collaboration between designer Hella Jongerius and theorist Louise Schouwenberg for la Rinascente department store in Milan. Commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries.
Past - Live, Literature, Film Serpentine Cinema: Interrupted Lecture: Adam Thirlwell and Philippe Parreno, followed by Isidore Isou’s Venom and Eternity 7 Apr 2016 Novelist Adam Thirlwell presented a performance lecture, with special reference to the universal art of montage, interrupted by live conversations with artist Philippe Parreno. Followed by a screening of Isidore Isou’s 1951 film, Venom and Eternity
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Felix Melia, premiere of Shoulder Blades and screening of Lamassu Flats 24 Mar 2016 For the second of Serpentine Cinemas 2016 series, Felix Melia presented the premiere of his film, Shoulder Blades as well as his 2014 film Lamassu Flats.
Past - Live The Magazine Sessions 2016: Karl Holmqvist, PPPPJJHAAARRRRVEY, with AA Bronson, Marcus Chang, Nhu Duong, Klara Lidén, Ebe Oke, Mundi Vondi and friends 21 Mar 2016 Taking place monthly during spring, winter and late autumn, The Magazine Sessions is a new series of experimental and immersive events taking place in The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust.
Past - Learn, Live, School Ideas Through Art: Broadcast 21 Mar 2016 Artist Harold Offeh led a workshop inspired by D.I.Y. television, exploring performance and filming as tools for teaching and learning.
Past - Learn, Live, Neighbourhood Open Workshop #2: Church Street Local Projects Shelf 11 Mar 2016 Designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad led a workshop to design and programme a community-run bookshelf for Church Street Library.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Sophie Cundale, After Picasso, God 9 Mar 2016 Following a sold-out premiere in February, a second screening date was confirmed for artist Sophie Cundale's new film, After Picasso, God
Past - Live Public Talk: DAS INSTITUT in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 3 Mar 2016 Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder (DAS INSTITUT) discussed their practice and their Serpentine exhibition with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Goethe-Institut, London
Past - Live Future Contemporaries Party 2016 20 Feb 2016 The Future Contemporaries Party has established a reputation since launching in 2007 as an unmissable highlight in London’s social calendar, with live performances, sessions by celebrated DJs and guests that include leading figures from the worlds of
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Sophie Cundale, After Picasso, God 17 Feb 2016 Artist Sophie Cundale presents the premiere of her new film work, After Picasso, God.
Past - Live The Magazine Sessions 2016: Matt Copson, A Woodland Truce 15 Feb 2016 Taking place monthly during spring, winter and late autumn, The Magazine Sessions is a new series of experimental and immersive events taking place in The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, presented in collaboration with Fiorucci Art Trust
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: Foleyage – A Park Made of Sound 7 Feb 2016 Families took over the airwaves with Radio Anti.
Past - Live Power to the Point: An Evening on Infographics 2 Feb 2016 Inspired by the exhibitions of Simon Denny's and Michael Craig-Martin's works at the Serpentine Galleries, this study evening examined the history and forms of infographics and data visualisation in the dissemination of ideas and the
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook, Care Unwritten Handbook: Anton Kats 30 Jan 2016 Artist and musician Anton Kats presented an Artist Talk taking the form of an open studio and live radio performance.
Past - Live Culturehacking: A Panel with Simon Denny, Heba Amin, Ryan Gallagher and Brett Scott, in conversation with Charlotte Higgins 28 Jan 2016 On the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, artist Simon Denny discussed networks, power, revolution and surveillance with artist and researcher Heba Y. Amin, journalist Ryan Gallagher and journalist and campaigner Brett
Past - Live, Learn, Neighbourhood Open Workshop #1: Church Street Local Projects Shelf 28 Jan 2016 Designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad led a workshop to design and programme a community-run bookshelf for Church Street Library.
Past - Learn, Changing play Changing Play: Albert Potrony 1 Jan 2016 Artist Albert Potrony worked with children aged three and four years-old to explore the value and possibilities of free play in the school system.
Past - Live, Learn Our Story 19 Dec 2015 Implicated Theatre presented a morning of workshop performances, based on the true experiences of members of the company and hospitality workers from Unite’s Hotel Workers Branch.
Past - Live, Learn Public Talk: Michael Craig-Martin in conversation with Richard Sennett and Hans Ulrich Obrist 16 Dec 2015 On the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Transience, artist Michael Craig-Martin discussed his practice and transformations in design and technology with professor and author Richard Sennett and Serpentine Co-Director, Hans Ulrich
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Patrick Goddard 19 Nov 2015 Artist and film-maker Patrick Goddard shows two recent films addressing money, complicity and commitment. Followed by a conversation with Ben Eastham. This screening is presented in collaboration with The White Review.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: The Conversation, with Walter Murch and Rachel Rose 8 Nov 2015 Artist Rachel Rose discussed visual and sound editing techniques with Oscar-winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch. The conversation, presented in collaboration with MUBI, was followed by a screening of the 1974 film, The Conversation (dir.
Past - Live Remember Nature 4 Nov 2015 This nationwide day of action to Remember Nature was instigated by artist Gustav Metzger, whose work addresses climate change and its catastrophic effects.
Past - Learn, School Ideas Through Art: Assemblage 2 Nov 2015 Artist Anna Lucas led a workshop using the sculptural and cinematic assemblages found in the Serpentine’s Autumn Exhibitions programme as a starting point.
Past - Learn, Family Day Family Day: Assembled Identities 1 Nov 2015 Artist Larry Achiampong invited families to assemble and animate an alternate identity.
Past - Learn, Live, Changing play, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Invisible Spaces of Parenthood 24 Oct 2015 This Artist Talk highlighted Andrea Francke and Kim Dhillon’s research into parenthood, childcare and Early Years Education through their collaborative open-research platform, Invisible Spaces of Parenthood.
Past - Marathon, Live, Sound, Online On air: Transformation Marathon on Serpentine Radio 18 Oct 2015 To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Serpentine Marathon series, this year’s Transformation Marathon launched a day-long broadcast of readings, talks, conversations and performances on Serpentine Radio (radio.serpentinegalleries.org), beginning
Past - Marathon, Live, Literature, Film Transformation Marathon 17 Oct 2015 Celebrating its tenth anniversary since the inaugural 2006 Interview Marathon, the 2015 Transformation Marathon addressed cultural, political and physical shifts, asking how significant change can be achieved today. Returning to its 24-hour format of
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2015: Mette Ingvartsen, Speculations 16 Oct 2015 Choreographer Mette Ingvartsen presented a discursive-practice-performance addressing artificial nature, catastrophic constructions and the autonomy of objects, where imagination, speculation and description all play a role in the encounter with the
Past - Live, Pavilion, Learn William Wells: Report From Cairo 6 Oct 2015 Join William Wells, Founder and Director of Cairo’s iconic art institution, Townhouse in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in the Serpentine Pavilion.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Sound Park Nights 2015: Christian Wolff and Apartment House 25 Sep 2015 Composer Christian Wolff and Apartment House ensemble presented a music performance in the Serpentine Pavilion.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2015: Christodoulos Panayiotou, Dying on Stage 18 Sep 2015 Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou presented a new version of his lecture-reading, exploring the hierarchical order of literal, metaphorical and symbolic deaths on the stage, as well as the philological concept of 'tragic irony', through
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2015: Jesse Darling, NTGNE 11 Sep 2015 Artist Jesse Darling presented a version of the tragic play Antigone as immersive environment, community theatre and symbolic ritual, reflecting on remembrance and empire.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Frances Rifkin 5 Sep 2015 Frances Rifkin, Artistic Director of Utopia Arts and Director of the Serpentine Galleries’ Implicated Theatre, explored the implicit tensions present in the realm of alternative or Independent theatre. In this Unwritten Handbook, she challenged the
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Maija Timonen, The Only Living Boy 29 Aug 2015 Writer and filmmaker Maija Timonen presented a new performance in response to - and in the context of - Duane Hanson's exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: A Space Base for Instance 23 Aug 2015 Artist Julia Tcharfas invited children and families to leave Earth and re-imagine their collective future.
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Readings, in collaboration with The White Review, with Joanna Kavenna, Rebecca Tamás & Declan Ryan 22 Aug 2015 The Serpentine and The White Review joined for a third collaborative live event, featuring readings by Joanna Kavenna, Rebecca Tamás and Declan Ryan.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Film Park Nights 2015: Marianna Simnett, Blue Roses 21 Aug 2015 In an evening exploring bodily integrity and invasive procedures, artist Marianna Simnett presented a musical performance, accompanied by footage from her recent films, The Udder, Blood and Blue Roses.
Past - Live, Learn Saturday Talks: Post World's End Architecture, Part 2 15 Aug 2015 A series of debates programmed in partnership with SpainNOW!, explored the concept of urban public space and its relation with political dissidence through the voices of emerging architecture practices and thinkers that consider public space the
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2015: Fleur Melbourn, Thelma & Louise 31 Jul 2015 In this new commission incorporating film, theatre and installation, artist Fleur Melbourn presented a performance in which figures from the afterlife discuss mortality and the notion of blasphemy. A modern-day Dante leads the audience on a journey
Past - Live, Learn Saturday Talks: Post World's End Architecture, Part 1 25 Jul 2015 A series of debates programmed in partnership with SpainNOW!, exploring the concept of urban public space and its relation with political dissidence through the voices of emerging architecture practices and thinkers that consider public space the
Past - Learn, Live, Family, Family Day Family Day: Film-in-a-Day 19 Jul 2015 Artist Holly White and friends invited participants to make a film-in-a-day, inspired by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s practice of completing a painting in one day.
Past - Learn, Live, Neighbourhood Bright Echo by Sophia Al-Maria 18 Jul 2015 As part of the publication Continuous City: Mapping Arab London artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria produced a new sound work for Edgware Road.
Past - Learn, Live, Neighbourhood A Stage for Any Revolution by Alia Farid 11 Jul 2015 A Stage for Any Revolution is an open modular ‘stage’ by artist Alia Farid. The stage, re-envisaged for Edgware Road was used by the public in different ways.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Megan Rooney, Last Days. Last Days. Last Days. 11 Jul 2015 Artist Megan Rooney created an immersive, durational performance in the context of Duane Hanson's exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Literature Park Nights 2015: An Evening of Poetry 10 Jul 2015 On the occasion of the 50th anniversary year of the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall, poets and performers gathered for an evening in the Pavilion. With Rachael Allen, Kayo Chingonyi, Andrew Durbin, Renee Gladman, Michael
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Day: Our play, Our party, Our work! 5 Jul 2015 An afternoon of shape-activated fun, designed by artists Andrea Francke and Kim Dhillon (The Invisible Spaces of Parenthood) in collaboration with Joceline Howe and Nefeli Skarmea.
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Alex Cecchetti, Summer is not the Prize of Winter 4 Jul 2015 Paris-based artist Alex Cecchetti presented a new version of his performance Summer is not the Prize of Winter, performed with philosopher Federico Campagna and tracing a route around the Serpentine Gallery and Kensington Gardens.
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Readings, Part 3 27 Jun 2015 Over three Saturdays, actors and performers read texts written and selected by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Film, Sound Park Nights 2015 23 Jun 2015 Between June and October 2015, Serpentine Galleries presented Park Nights, the annual series of performance, music, film, dance and literature. The 2015 Park Nights includes new commissions conceived specifically for the Serpentine Pavilion 2015
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2015 prelude: Fifteen years of the Pavilion Commission, with selgascano, Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radić and Sarah Ichioka 23 Jun 2015 Architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano discussed the concepts behind the design of the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion, as well as the history of the Commission with 2013 and 2014 architects, Sou Fujimoto and Smiljan Radić and Serpentine Directors Julia
Past - Live, Literature, Learn Saturdays Live: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Readings, part 2 20 Jun 2015 Over three Saturdays, actors and performers read texts written and selected by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Vera Frenkel and Patrick Staff, Love Songs to Various Truths 18 Jun 2015 Serpentine Galleries presented a screening of films by Canadian multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel with film interventions by London and Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Staff and an introduction to Frenkel’s work by curator Jonathan Shaughnessy.
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Readings, part 1 13 Jun 2015 Over three Saturdays, actors and performers read texts written and selected by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Learn, School Ideas Through Art: Labour 11 Jun 2015 Writer Natasha Soobramanien led a workshop focusing on speaking and listening and creative writing activities designed to stimulate literacy projects back in the classroom.
Past - Live, Learn, Language and Power We are implicated, so are you... 6 Jun 2015 Implicated Theatre created a participatory performance emerging from a series of workshops using Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Heather Phillipson, FINAL DAYS at Sheffield Doc/Fest 5 Jun 2015 Serpentine Cinema and Sheffield Doc/Fest collaborated for a second year with Heather Phillipson's exhibition, FINAL DAYS, following the artist's 2014 Park Nights performance, 'the flavour of cooling enormities'.
Past - Film Serpentine Cinema: Lance Wakeling: Field Visits for Chelsea Manning 28 May 2015 Serpentine Cinema presented the UK première of Lance Wakeling's film, Field Visits for Chelsea Manning. In partnership with Rhizome.
Past - Learn, Live, Film, Neighbourhood Tyburnia Screening: James Holcombe and Dead Rat Orchestra 27 May 2015 Tyburnia illustrates the twists and turns of political whimsy, church and state, and the birth of capitalism.
Past - Live, Learn A Symposium on Leon Golub 1 May 2015 Jon Bird, Michaela Crimmin, Adam Curtis, Philip Golub, Avery Gordon, Samm Kunce, Oscar Murillo, John Roberts and Martha Rosler took part in a symposium about Leon Golub’s work and activism in the context of contemporary global politics.
Past - Film Serpentine Cinema: Documentaries on Leon Golub 30 Apr 2015 An exploration of Leon Golub's artistic career and politics through a double bill of documentaries offering unique insights into the artist's life and times.
Past - Family, Learn, Family Day Family Day: Short-Lived Sculpture 26 Apr 2015 Participants explored and constructed a transitory sculpture park in Kensington Gardens with artist Jenny Moore.
Past - Live Serpentine Galleries in Milan: Pasted 14 Apr 2015 (All day) to 20 Apr 2015 (All day) For the second year, Serpentine Galleries collaborated with la Rinascente on a special commission for the department store’s eight storefront windows during the 2015 Salone del Mobile. From 14 to 20 April 2015 at la Rinascente, Piazza Duomo,
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Sam Curtis 28 Mar 2015 Sam Curtis talked about his ideas on stealth art practice and how he uses day-jobs as sites from which to practice and slowly grow projects out-and-upwards; an uninvited artist residency.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Rachel Rose and Anna Zett 26 Mar 2015 Meet the dinosaurs of blockbuster cinema, the ghosts of colonial history and reflect on mortality with Serpentine Cinema: a screening of films by artists Anna Zett and Rachel Rose.
Past - Live, Film, Learn An Evening on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 19 Mar 2015 Artists, architects, researchers and filmmakers explore global infrastructure and the movement of people, things and information. With Keller Easterling, Alice Elliot, Oreva Olakpe, Rachel Pimm, Ben Vickers and Lance Wakeling.
Past - Learn, School Teachers Continuing Professional Development workshop: Material worlds 11 Mar 2015 Working with artist Jenny Moore, participants used Pascale Marthine Tayou’s sculptures as the starting point for a playful investigation of the social life of objects. They thought about how we collect, relate to, share and discard the stuff of our
Past - Live, Learn Pascale Marthine Tayou in conversation with N'Goné Fall and Julia Grosse 6 Mar 2015 Artist Pascale Marthine Tayou discussed his work, the exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery as well as contemporary African perspectives with Contemporary And (C&) magazine editor-in-chief Julia Grosse and curator N’Goné Fall.
Past - Live Future Contemporaries Party 2015 21 Feb 2015 The 2015 Future Contemporaries Party took place during London Fashion Week in the Zaha Hadid-designed Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Jenny Moore 14 Feb 2015 Jenny Moore staged a new performance as part of Saturdays Live.
Past - Live, Learn Public Talk: Kasper König on Reiner Ruthenbeck 11 Feb 2015 Curator and professor Kasper König presented a lecture on Reiner Ruthenbeck’s works.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Mohamad Hafeda 7 Feb 2015 Mohamad Hafeda from artist collective Febrik, reflects on the use of art processes as urban research tools
Past - Live, Literature, Film, Learn A Bright Night: Technologies of Affect 5 Feb 2015 Designer Chris Kabel, artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, and Gil Leung and philosopher Alexei Penzin presented an evening of screenings, readings, talks and performances addressing light, happiness, affect and
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Beth Collar, Probably, Like a Melon Rolling off a Table: Part II 31 Jan 2015 Beth Collar performed a new performance, Probably, Like a Melon Rolling off a Table: Part II, as part of Saturdays Live.
Past - Learn, Live, Language and Power Our Story with Implicated Theatre and UNITE 27 Jan 2015 Since October 2014, Implicated Theatre have been working with hotel workers in London to develop a theatre performance and workshop inspired by their working conditions.
Past - Learn, School Teachers Continuing Professional Development: Light 9 Dec 2014 A workshop for teachers using Julio le Parc’s exhibition as the starting point for an exploration of light and shadow.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad 8 Nov 2014 Designer and artist Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad hosted a talk at the Serpentine Galleries Education Space. Hashemi-Nezhad has developed a number of projects focusing on the spatial politics of Church Street NW8, devising new methodologies of participation
Past - Live, Literature Saturdays Live: Readings by Andrea Brady and Lars Iyer 1 Nov 2014 Andrea Brady and Lars Iyer presented readings in the Trisha Donnelly exhibition, programmed in collaboration with The White Review.
Past - Film, Live Extinction Marathon: London premiere of Seeds of Time 19 Oct 2014 On Sunday 19 October, the Extinction Marathon presented the London premiere of the documentary Seeds of Time, directed by Sandy McLeod at Gate Picturehouse.
Past - Marathon, Live, Literature, Film, Sound, Online Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future 18 Oct 2014 The 2014 Serpentine Marathon included artists, writers, scientists, film-makers, choreographers, theorists and musicians, who presented on the topic of Extinction.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Film, Sound Park Nights 2014: Heather Phillipson: the flavour of cooling enormities 3 Oct 2014 Artist Heather Phillipson presented a unique audio-sculptural event in the 2014 Pavilion.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema curated by Cerith Wyn Evans, part 2 27 Sep 2014 Serpentine Cinema presents a series of screenings curated by Cerith Wyn Evans on the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. The series includes several films screened in 16mm as well as a new work by Steve Farrer on 35mm. Part
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema curated by Cerith Wyn Evans 22 Sep 2014 Serpentine Cinema presented a series of screenings curated by Cerith Wyn Evans on the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Literature Park Nights 2014: Zygmunt Bauman, Giving and Taking 19 Sep 2014 A talk by Zygmunt Bauman, followed by an in-conversation with Serpentine Galleries Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Film, Sound Park Nights 2014: Hannah Perry, Horoscopes (Déjà Vu) 12 Sep 2014 As part of Park Nights 2014, artist Hannah Perry produced a new, site-specific work.
Past - Live Saturday Walks: Liam Young, Wanders through the Imaginary Garden 30 Aug 2014 Inspired by the design of the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion, Liam Young led a wander through speculative botany, discussing the history of imaginary plants and animals and our relationship to nature.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Sound Park Nights 2014: Lina Lapelyte's Hunky Bluff 29 Aug 2014 Artist Lina Lapelyte devised a new work for an all-female group of performers with low voices.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Sound Park Nights 2014: Forget Amnesia with Haroon Mirza, Mark Fell, Okkyung Lee and Factory Floor 22 Aug 2014 Artists Haroon Mirza, Mark Fell and Okkyung Lee came together for an evening of light and sound synthesis with a surprise appearance by Factory Floor.
Past - Live Saturday Walks: Leonor Serrano Rivas, Yet the sky is still the same 16 Aug 2014 Leonor Serrano Rivas performed Yet the sky is still the same, addressing the environment of the Serpentine Pavilion 2014.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Film Serpentine Cinema: Nothing, curated by Marina Abramović 10 Aug 2014 Nothing was the third in a series of three screenings and conversations curated by Marina Abramović on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Live Saturday Walks: Maria Lisogorskaya and Fran Edgerley: Serpentine Offering 9 Aug 2014 Maria Lisogorskaya and Fran Edgerley invited the public to attend a ceremonial ritual; a builder's rite for the Serpentine Pavilion.
Past - Learn, Live, Language and Power Implicated Theatre 26 Jul 2014 Implicated Theatre presented an immersive theatre event based on experiences of migratory hope, fear, despair and anticipation.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Raúl Ruiz 26 Jul 2014 A screening of two films by pioneering Chilean filmmaker Raul Rúiz.
Past - Park Nights, Live, Literature, Film Park Nights 2014: Of Pirates and Disappearances: A Homage to Raúl Ruiz 25 Jul 2014 The launch of a special Raúl Ruiz Weekend featuring screenings, music, talks, readings and food.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Film Serpentine Cinema: Stillness, curated by Marina Abramović 20 Jul 2014 Stillness was the second in a series of screenings and conversations curated by Marina Abramović on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Exhibition, Live, Literature, Film Park Nights 2014: Ed Atkins' Synonyms: Five or six noise-making rifts 11 Jul 2014 An evening of text, songs, sounds and feelings with artist Ed Atkins.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Movement, with Wayne McGregor, curated by Marina Abramović 29 Jun 2014 Movement was the first in a series of screenings and conversations curated by Marina Abramović on the occasion of her exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live, Literature, Film, Sound Park Nights 2014 27 Jun 2014 Between June and October 2014, Serpentine Galleries presented Park Nights, an annual series of live art, poetry, music, film, literature, performance and theory.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2014: Smiljan Radić in conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist; talk by Justin McGuirk 27 Jun 2014 Smiljan Radić, the architect of the 2014 Pavilion, discusses the concepts behind his design, followed by a talk by Justin McGuirk.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Adriana Lara, Shortsighted 15 Jun 2014 The film and performance programme, Shortsighted, brought together a selection of films by Mexican artist Adriana Lara.
Past - Online, Film Marina Abramović: from the 'Early Years' to 'The Artist is Present' 4 Jun 2014 A series of short films tracing some of Marina Abramović's ideas and defining moments.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Literature Saturdays Live: Poetry Readings by Eugene Ostashevsky, Holly Pester and Sophie Seita 17 May 2014 Listen to live poetry readings from Eugene Ostashevsky, Holly Pester and Sophie Seita
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Jesse Wine and Kathy Noble in conversation 10 May 2014 Jesse Wine and Kathy Noble in conversation
Past - Online, Film The Collections: Conversations with Emily King 17 Apr 2014 (All day) to 18 May 2014 (All day) A series of short films to accompany the exhibition Martino Gamper: design is a state of mind linking the collections on loan with the individuals who have loaned them.
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturdays Live: Leah Capaldi 12 Apr 2014 Artist Leah Capaldi reflected on the encounter of object, body and sculpture in a durational performance.
Past - Live Serpentine Galleries in Milan: In a State of Repair 8 Apr 2014 (All day) to 13 Apr 2014 (All day) A unique collaboration between designer Martino Gamper, la Rinascente department store in Milan and the Serpentine Galleries.
Past - Live, Learn Saturday Talks: Ben Highmore on Haim Steinbach: once again the world is flat. 5 Apr 2014 Professor Ben Highmore discusses Haim Steinbach's practice.
Past - Live, Learn Saturdays Live: Pascale Berthier 22 Mar 2014 Movements (Pesce, Rams, Smith) was a performative work by artist Pascale Berthier, led by Amelie Hegardt, inviting the audience to respond to the exhibition curated by Martino Gamper by taking part in the ritual activity of arranging and rearranging.
Past - Live Public Talk: Martino Gamper and Haim Steinbach, in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn 5 Mar 2014 Martino Gamper, Haim Steinbach and design critic Alice Rawsthorn in conversation about display, exhibition-making, objects, art and design.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: AGNES GOES LIVE 23 Feb 2014 AGNES is a spambot created by Cécile B. Evans.
Past - Live, Literature Saturday Seminars: Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams - Talk and Reading Workshop 18 Jan 2014 In January, the Saturday Seminars focused on re-telling, a key theme running through both the Wael Shawky and Chapman Brothers exhibitions.
Past - Live Saturday Talk: biologist Paolo Viscardi 9 Nov 2013 Paolo Viscardi, curator at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in charge of the fossil and bone collections, presented a talk about his practice in response to the work of Adrián Villar Rojas.
Past - Online The Brick Farm Diaries of Adrián Villar Rojas 8 Nov 2013 A series of experiments, including short films, made by Ariel Torti while Adrián Villar Rojas and his team were in residence in a London studio for the making of the exhibition Today We Reboot The Planet.
Past - Learn, Literature, Neighbourhood CAMP presents Pleasure: A Block Study 6 Nov 2013 Bombay-based artists CAMP presented Pleasure: A Block Study a publication that came out of their multi-year residency with the Edgware Road Project.
Past - Live Saturdays Live: Esme Toler's Sculpture & Prosthetics 2 Nov 2013 Artist Esme Toler presented a talk inspired by the exhibition Today We Reboot the Planet by Adrián Villar Rojas and by her experience making sculpture and orthotics.
Past - Live, Learn Public Talk: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 1 Nov 2013 Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev lectured on the work of Marisa Merz and Adrián Villar Roja.
Past - Live, Literature, Learn Saturday Talks: Teresa Kittler on Marisa Merz 26 Oct 2013 This talk explores the concept of the living in Marisa Merz’s Untitled (Living Sculpture) (1966).
Past - Live, Literature, Learn Malak Helmy Residency: Soft Matter 26 Oct 2013 A reading and artist's talk by the Edgware Road Project’s artist-in-residence Malak Helmy at The Cockpit theatre
Past - Online, Marathon 89plus CLUBHOUSE 18 Oct 2013 The 89plus CLUBHOUSE was an online platform built to facilitate digital participation in the Serpentine Marathon in 2013 and give form to a highly distributed conversation across different networks as it emerged live from the event.
Past - Marathon, Live, Literature, Film, Sound 89plus Marathon 18 Oct 2013 The 89plus Marathon brought emerging practitioners, born in or after 1989, together with influential thinkers of all generations.
Past - Live, Pavilion Saturday Talks: Indy Johar 00:/ [zero zero] 5 Oct 2013 For his Saturday Talk, 00:/ co-founder and architect Indy Johar discussed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto in the context of politics and semiotics.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2013: Leslie Thornton and James Richards 27 Sep 2013 For this Park Night, the Serpentine invited artist Leslie Thornton to screen several of her acclaimed film works, in a programme specifically created for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2013: George Henry Longly's GHL 20 Sep 2013 Artist George Henry Longly works across several media to explore issues in architecture, composition and design.
Past - Live, Sound, Learn Saturday Talks: Kathrin Böhm 7 Sep 2013 Artist Kathrin Böhm presents her practice in the context of myvillages.org to address questions of usefulness and purpose, in the context of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights 2013: Russell Haswell/Yasunao Tone 6 Sep 2013 Multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell curated and performed an evening of sound with pioneering noise musician Yasunao Tone.
Past - Live, Sound, Learn Saturday Talks: Anthea Hamilton 24 Aug 2013 A talk by Anthea Hamilton that was part of series of Saturday Talks exploring the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 and the exhibition, STURTEVANT LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, within the context of the 'interface'.
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Rebecca La Marre 17 Aug 2013 A performance by London-based Canadian writer and artist Rebecca La Marre reflecting on Sturtevant's exhibition.
Past - Live, Sound, Learn Saturday Talks: Lucia Pietroiusti 27 Jul 2013 In this Saturday Talk, Public Programmes Curator Lucia Pietroiusti discusses active and passive viewership as well as appropriation in Sou Fujimoto's and STURTEVANT's practices.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Park Nights 2013: Adam Phillips and Paul Holdengräber 26 Jul 2013 Have you ever spent time imagining the 'other life' you could have lived? Adam Phillips and Paul Holdengräber in conversation.
Past - Live, Literature, Film, Sound, Learn A STURTEVANT Study Day 13 Jul 2013 On the occasion of the exhibition STURTEVANT LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, the Serpentine Gallery presented a day of talks, performances and screenings.
Past - Live, Pavilion Saturday Seminars: Claire Feeley and Jessica Reynolds in conversation 15 Jun 2013 At this Saturday talk, curator Claire Feeley was in conversation with architect Jessica Reynolds to explore Sou Fujimoto's philosophy of space.
Past - Park Nights, Pavilion, Live Public Talk: Sou Fujimoto 8 Jun 2013 Architect Sou Fujimoto discussed his visionary design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, a delicate, cloud-like structure that experiments with immateriality and weightlessness.
Past - Live Ehtifal Festival 6 Apr 2013 The Serpentine Gallery and the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) are proud to present Ehtifal, a free, three-day festival of art, literature, music and family events exploring the historical and contemporary Arab presence in London and its connections to
Past - Live, Sound Rock on Top of Another Rock: An Evening with Peter Fischli and Adam Caruso 2 Apr 2013 The Serpentine Galleries presented a talk dedicated to the Fischli/Weiss installation in Kensington Gardens, Rock on Top of Another Rock.
Past - Family, Learn The Studio: Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan 20 Feb 2013 During the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Berlin-based dancer Nefeli Skarmea and artist and educator Polly Brannan took up residency within the Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Declan Clarke's We Are Not Like Them 7 Jan 2013 Declan Clarke presented We Are Not Like Them, a new film.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Jesse Jones' The Selfish Act of Community 17 Dec 2012 The Selfish Act of Community is a film work by artist Jesse Jones that explores historical experiments in conflict resolution therapy as a type of Brechtian script.
Past - Learn, Care Carer's Congress 2012 12 Dec 2012 The 2012 Carers' Congress illuminated the publication Art + Care: A Future, which explores urban transformation and the politics of care.
Past - Live, Marathon Tarek Atoui's La Suite opening the Memory Marathon 12 Oct 2012 Acclaimed Lebanese sound artist Tarek Atoui transported audiences through a lost world of Arabic culture with a five-hour performance to launch the Serpentine Gallery's Memory Marathon.
Past - Marathon, Live, Literature, Film, Sound, Learn Memory Marathon 12 Oct 2012 A two-day event inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, the Memory Marathon explored memory, archaeological excavation and historical recordings through overlaps and interactions between artistic
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Robert Ashley's Vidas Perfectas, produced, scored and directed by Alex Waterman 28 Sep 2012 This three-day event with pioneering American contemporary composer Robert Ashley centred on Vidas Perfectas, an ambitious new Spanish-language opera based on Ashley's Perfect Lives.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Oscar Murillo's The Cleaners' Late Summer Party with COMME des GARÇONS 14 Sep 2012 Artist Oscar Murillo presented a new performance specially commissioned for the Serpentine Gallery's acclaimed Park Nights series.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Ed Fornieles 7 Sep 2012 For his Park Night, artist Ed Fornieles (b.1983, UK) hosted The Dreamy Awards, an award ceremony initiated to recognise the individuals and institutions that are helping shape our current cultural and technological landscape.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Public Talk, Herzog & de Meuron 15 Jul 2012 Architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in conversation with Michael Craig-Martin and Hiroshi Sugimoto, moderated and introduced by Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Cory Doctorow 29 Jun 2012 Canadian writer, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow convened an evening of performances and readings on the subject of digital memory.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights 2012: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a film by Alison Klayman 22 Jun 2012 The Serpentine Gallery presented a screening of journalist and film-maker Alison Klayman's 2012 film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a documentary portrait of the artist, shot while Klayman was working as a journalist in China.
Past - Live Poetics of Anxiety and Security: the Problem of Speech and Action in Our Time, Conference 27 Apr 2012 The Serpentine Gallery hosted a two-day conference exploring key works by poet W.H. Auden and political theorist Hannah Arendt. Led by internationally-renowned Harvard academic Homi Bhabha, participants investigated Auden's The Age of Anxiety and
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Lili Reynaud Dewar's Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty 20 Mar 2012 CINACT: Serpentine Cinema presented Speaking of Revolt, Media & Beauty, a new film performance by Lili Reynaud Dewar at The Gate Cinema.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Lygia Pape 23 Jan 2012 Serpentine Cinema presented a screening of a selection of newly-restored and remastered films by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape, on the occasion of the exhibition Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Live, Film Lygia Pape: Film Work Talk by Guy Brett 12 Jan 2012 This event explored Lygia Pape's diverse films as a little known and fascinating part of her broader artistic practice.
Past - Marathon Garden Marathon 15 Oct 2011 The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon was the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. This two-day event was an exploration of the concept of the garden.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Torsten Lauschmann 25 Sep 2011 Serpentine Cinema presented a series of three films by Glasgow-based artist Torsten Lauschmann, including the premiere of a new 3D short film.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Michael Dean's Acts of Grass 16 Sep 2011 Delivering writing into states of physicality centres Michael Dean's research into the political properties of language pertaining to authorship and autonomy.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Peter Zumthor and Piet Oudolf with Fritz Hauser and Peter Conradin Zumthor 9 Sep 2011 Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor discussed his groundbreaking design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, followed by a collaborative performance between Basel-based musician and composer Fritz Hauser and drummer Peter Conradin
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gianna Nannini: The Navel of the Third Paradise 2 Sep 2011 Michelangelo Pistoletto was in conversation with Gianna Nannini and the Serpentine Gallery Directors, Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: Helen Marten's Dust and Piranhas 26 Aug 2011 Written and composed in response to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 designed by Peter Zumthor, this video work by Helen Marten is structured around a scripted text delivered via CGI columns, rap, and cathartic slapstick.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Charlemagne Palestine 12 Aug 2011 The musical performances of the notorious piano-destroying, soft-toy-loving Charlemagne Palestine engage whole buildings.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Alexis Marguerite Teplin and Sophie von Cundale 7 Aug 2011 Screenings of films and performances by Alexis Marguerite Teplin and Sophie von Cundale.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Bidoun Projects' Shaabi-Music-Wedding-Dance-Party 22 Jul 2011 Shaabi-Music-Wedding-Dance-Party was an event to mark the opening of the Bidoun Library at the Serpentine Gallery.
Past - Live, Sound Mark Leckey, BigBoxStatueAction 26 May 2011 Mark Leckey presented a series of four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Giles Bailey's Guy de Cointet and Corin Sworn 8 May 2011 Screenings of Corin Sworn's The Lens Prism, and Giles Bailey's Guy de Cointet.
Past - Live Nancy Spero: A Conference 15 Apr 2011 The Serpentine Gallery presented this conference on the occasion of their current exhibition of the celebrated American artist Nancy Spero, the first major presentation following her death in autumn 2009.
Past - Marathon, Live Map Marathon 16 Oct 2010 The Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon, the fifth in the Serpentine Gallery's series of Marathons, celebrated a number of key anniversaries: the 40th anniversary of the Serpentine Gallery, the 10th anniversary of the annual architecture commission, the
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: James Richards' About Time 1 Oct 2010 Artist James Richards convened an evening of experimental film and music exploring overlapping times and states of hypnosis through loops, repetitions and feedbacks across multiple formats and platforms.
Past - Park Nights, Live Park Nights: Becky Beasley and Chris Sharp's 13 pieces, 17 feet 24 Sep 2010 Artist Becky Beasley's performative project, 13 pieces, 17 feet, centred on Eadweard Muybridge's extraordinary 1878 panoramic photograph of San Francisco, and a peculiar feature of railroad millionaire Charles Crocker's house.
Past - Live Marwan Rechmaoui in conversation with, Hans Ulrich Obrist 7 Sep 2010 Artist in residence Marwan Rechmaoui was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist discussing the artist’s practice.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: Edgware Road and Etel Adnan 3 Sep 2010 The Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist Etel Adnan and friends convened an evening of readings, film screenings and music, derived from work underway at the Serpentine Gallery's Centre for Possible Studies.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: Alexandre Singh 27 Aug 2010 Artist Alexandre Singh presented The Alkahest: Chapter 1, a performance of an epic tale in the style of Homer, in which Singh recited the first of three interwoven and fantastical narratives from memory to a small and intimate audience.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: Wolfgang Tillmans and Dimitar Sasselov 20 Aug 2010 Wolfgang Tillmans invited leading astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to discuss his involvement in the NASA Kepler mission to find other Earth-like planets, and to explore some of his unanswered questions about light, the beginning of infinity, the edge of
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: Enrique Vila-Matas and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 13 Aug 2010 Writer Enrique Vila-Matas and artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster appeared together for the first time in London.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: John Maus 6 Aug 2010 John Maus of the musical groups Animal Collective, Panda Bear and Haunted Graffiti presented an evening of experimental music in the 2010 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
Past - Park Nights, Live Sleepover 30 Jul 2010 The Serpentine Gallery and the V&A staged a unique overnight event of talks, films, experiments and a midnight feast in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel.
Past - Park Nights, Film Park Nights: Beatrice Gibson's The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us 23 Jul 2010 The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest Of Us is a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV play and set in an older people’s care home.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie 11 Jul 2010 Screenings of films by Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie.
Past - Live Serpentine New Music Action, Phyllida Barlow and Friends 27 May 2010 An evening of experimental music that responded to the exhibition of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine.
Past - Learn, Live, Research Conference: Deschooling Society 29 Apr 2010 Artists, scholars and critics have been invited to present critical ideas on collaborative and participatory art, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed.
Past - Live Chicago Boys: while we were singing, they were dreaming... 10 Apr 2010 Two days of music played by a 1970s revival band assembled by Hiwa K. Performances took place in cafés along the Edgware Road and were followed by a discussion about the 1970s in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
Past - Learn The Studio of Giles Round 12 Mar 2010 London-based artist Giles Round relocated his studio to the Gallery's Sackler Centre for Arts Education, where he was in residence and working with the public.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: CINACT - Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting 9 Nov 2009 Clio Barnard is a filmmaker engaged in the relationship between documentary and fiction.She often constructs fictional images around verbatim audio and visa versa.
Past - Marathon, Pavilion, Live, Literature, Film, Sound Poetry Marathon 17 Oct 2009 The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon was an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians.
Past - Park Nights Park Nights: New Music Action presents Phill Niblock 9 Oct 2009 Pioneering experimentalist Phill Niblock presented a survey of his musical and cinematic work.
