Archive

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

Kenneth Martin: The Late Paintings

Serpentine South Gallery 29 Jun — 4 Aug 1985

This exhibition was planned as an 80th birthday celebration for Kenneth Martin.

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Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study

Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study

Serpentine South Gallery 18 May — 23 Jun 1985

This was the first solo exhibition by Louise Bourgeois in a public institution in Britain.

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Alice Aycock: Drawings and Sculpture

Serpentine South Gallery 18 May — 23 Jun 1985

American sculptor and installation artist Alice Aycock was represented in this solo exhibition of her work.

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Albert Louden: Streets and Rooms

Serpentine South Gallery 13 Apr — 12 May 1985

It was Victor Musgrave who 'discovered' Louden as an outsider artist and originally suggested the Serpentine exhibit his work.

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Alison Wilding

Serpentine South Gallery 13 Apr — 12 May 1985

The English sculptor Alison Wilding’s first one-person show in London since 1976.

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Cross-currents in Swiss Art

Serpentine South Gallery 9 Mar — 8 Apr 1985

While German, Italian, and French artists had been relatively well represented in London shows, little had been seen of their Swiss counterparts.

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Recalling the Fifties: British painting and sculpture 1950–60

Serpentine South Gallery 2 Feb — 3 Mar 1985

An overview of British painting and sculpture from the 1950s, from Auerbach and Bacon, to Frink and Hepworth, Paolozzi and Sutherland.

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Landscape, Memory and Desire

Serpentine South Gallery 8 December 1984 — 20 January 1985

This exhibition presented six painters of very diverse approaches but who shared a belief in the ability of painting to transform and transport.

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Michael Kidner: Paintings, drawings, sculpture

Serpentine South Gallery 4 Nov — 2 Dec 1984

This exhibition of British artist Michael Kidner’s oeuvre revealed both the variety of his art and the underlying consistency of his vision.

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