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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
Public Art Exhibition

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5

Serpentine South Gallery 14 Apr — 4 Sep 2022 Free

Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials.

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A group of young people all facing in the same direction, with the light behind them
Exhibition Exhibition

Radio Ballads

Serpentine North Gallery 31 Mar — 29 May 2022 Free

Artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar present four bodies of work, exploring stories of labour, and who cares for who and in what way...

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
Public Art Exhibition

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5

Serpentine South Gallery 14 Apr — 4 Sep 2022

Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials.

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Now Open
A group of young people all facing in the same direction, with the light behind them
Exhibition Exhibition

Radio Ballads

Serpentine North Gallery 31 Mar — 29 May 2022

Artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar present four bodies of work, exploring stories of labour, and who cares for who and in what way...

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Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel

Designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates, the Serpentine Pavilion 2022: Black Chapel opens on 10 June.

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Serpentine Pavilion

Serpentine Pavilion

Public Art

Public Art

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Digital

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Alienarium 5: Live Apparitions, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Live Live

Alienarium 5: Live Apparitions, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Serpentine South Gallery 28 May 3-5pm

From 3 to 5pm on Saturday 28 May, a number of characters from Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s immersive 360-degree collage, Metapanorama, will appear as Live...

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Equilibrium
Online Event

Equilibrium

Online Monthly, Tuesdays 29 March, 26 April, 20 May and 28 June, 2-3pm BST (UTC/GMT+1)

A monthly webinar series hosted by the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter in partnership with Serpentine, part of Back to Earth

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Sun & Sea
Live Live

Sun & Sea

Offsite 23 Jun — 10 Jul 2022

The UK premiere of the Golden-Lion winning beach opera Sun & Sea, presented by Serpentine, LIFT and We Are Lewisham

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Projects

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Support Structures for Support Structures
Project Project

Support Structures for Support Structures

Offsite Ongoing

A new fellowship programme supporting artists working at the intersection of art, spatial politics and community practice.

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Doctoral Research Collaborations
Lab Lab

Doctoral Research Collaborations

1 May 2020

Supporting doctoral research projects in collaboration with leading research centres and universities.

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Legal Lab
Lab Resource Lab

Legal Lab

Online September 2019 - ongoing

Exploring how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology

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Back to Earth
Project Project

Back to Earth

Serpentine South Gallery Online Offsite International 20 Apr 20 – ongoing

The most ambitious project in the Serpentine's history, bringing together over sixty artist-led environmental campaigns.

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Atta Kwami Public Art Commission: Maria Lassnig Foundation x Serpentine Galleries
Project Project

Atta Kwami Public Art Commission: Maria Lassnig Foundation x Serpentine Galleries

2022

Atta Kwami’s project with Serpentine – a comprehensive monograph publication and a public art commission – will be launched in 2022.

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Like Coming Home
Project Project

Like Coming Home

January 2020 - Ongoing

Writer and filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall asks questions about home and housing.

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Radio Ballads
Research Project

Radio Ballads

Serpentine North Gallery Offsite Feb 2019 – Ongoing

A three year project which sees four artists embedded in social care services and community settings in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

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Catch up

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Back to Earth Day 2021
Live Online Event Live

Back to Earth Day 2021

Online 19 Jun 2021

Back to Earth presents a day-long programme of talks, workshops, sound commissions, augmented reality and publications. 

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Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: Sam Rolfes x Alex Boyes
Live Online Event Live

Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: Sam Rolfes x Alex Boyes

Online 29 Jul 2021 BSL Interpreted Closed Captions

Join the Serpentine Arts Technologies team and our contributors to Future Art Ecosystems 2 as we discuss the metaverse.

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Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: Amelia Winger-Bearskin x Tamar Clarke-Brown

Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: Amelia Winger-Bearskin x Tamar Clarke-Brown

Online 13 Sep 2021 BSL Interpreted Closed Captions

Artist, technologist and producer Amelia Winger-Bearskin discusses the metaverse and the opportunities and challenges facing artists, producers and cultural ins...

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Belonging & Resistance: An Evening of Readings at New Beacon Books
Live Pavilion Public Art Live

Belonging & Resistance: An Evening of Readings at New Beacon Books

Offsite 24 Sep 2021

An evening of readings themed around constructing belonging and the history of places of resistance.

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Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: David Blandy and Larry Achiampong x Kay Watson

Future Art Ecosystems 2 Live: David Blandy and Larry Achiampong x Kay Watson

27 Sep 2021 BSL Interpreted Closed Captions

Join the Serpentine Arts Technologies team and our contributors to Future Art Ecosystems 2 as we discuss the metaverse.

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Performing the Metaverse: Performance x Virtual Worlds
Online Event

Performing the Metaverse: Performance x Virtual Worlds

Online 17 Mar 2022

A live conversation on Serpentine's Twitch with a panel of artists, producers and directors as they explore risks and opportunities associated with virtual perf...

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Hivemind
Digital Commission Online Event

Hivemind

Online 29 Mar 2022 BSL Interpreted Closed Captions Livestream: Closed Captions

Calum Bowden, Will Freudenheim and Joanna Pope transform the 2021 R&D Labyrinth into a playable infrastructure.

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Arts Technologies

Working with artists to explore and experiment with the most advanced technologies of our day.

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Projects that connect communities and artists to generate responses to pressing social issues.

General Ecology

Our ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism, the environment and climate change.

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Discover 50 years of the Serpentine

From the architecture pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas marathon and the General Ecology programme, explore 50 years of artists, projects and exhibitions.

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