Park Nights 2026
A series of new live performances in the Serpentine Pavilion 2026, designed by LANZA atelier.
Since 2002, Park Nights has presented new works across art, music, film, theatre, dance, literature, philosophy, fashion, and technology. Each year the commissions respond to the new Pavilion design, offering audiences unique ways to experience architecture and performance. The programme has supported emerging artists and pioneering writers and thinkers from around the world. On selected evenings from July to October the Serpentine Pavilion 2026: a serpentine becomes the stage for a series of interdisciplinary artistic interventions.
The 2026 Park Nights season opens with I feel amazing, a site-specific performance by Vancouver-based musician Sophia Stel. Drawing on her latest EP, How to Win At Solitaire (2025). Stel brings her genre-spanning sound to the Serpentine Pavilion, weaving together synthesisers, digital drums and the electric guitar in a set that traverses alt-pop and indie rock.
Continuing throughout July, Chanel Beads performs a live set with vocals and guitar. Transforming LANZA atelier’s Serpentine Pavilion into a stage for underground pop, the performance marks the release of their second album, Your Day Will Come (2026), which uses dream logic to delve into liminality and precarious remembrance.
In September, visual artist and writer Ebun Sodipo presents Atlantic Cruises: The Sex Tour, a new iteration of her ongoing performance series which is rooted in Black feminist study. Sodipo’s polyphonic audio-visual conversation maps new languages and tools to speak about the body and the past for Black trans people of the future.
The season concludes in October with a new commission from visual artist, writer and musician Shala Miller, presenting her work in the UK for the first time.
