Future - Live Saturday Talks: Rebecca Lewin on Pierre Huyghe 19 Jan 2019 Curator, Rebecca Lewin, leads a tour of the Pierre Huyghe exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Upcoming - Live Saturday Talks: Natalia Grabowska on Pierre Huyghe 8 Dec 2018 Assistant Curator, Natalia Grabowska, leads a tour of the Pierre Huyghe exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Upcoming - Live, Film Symposium: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: We have never been one 1 Dec 2018 This is the second instalment of this year-long symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project, and features anthropologists, artists, robotics experts, historians and more, to address interior multitude, swarming
Upcoming - Live Saturday Talks: Melissa Blanchflower on Atelier E.B 1 Dec 2018 Curator, Melissa Blanchflower, leads 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.
Upcoming - 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 presents a programme of artists’ films addressing machines, infrastructure and its impact on the biosphere and landscapes. The
Upcoming - Learn, Research Radio Earth Hold 28 Oct 2018 Hosted and supported by Serpentine Projects, Earth Hold are organising a day of live broadcasts, listening sessions, and discussion on 28 October to coincide with the end of Qalandiya International in Palestine. The event will offer an opportunity
Upcoming - Live Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Atelier E.B 27 Oct 2018 Assistant Curator, Joseph Constable, leads 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 Join artist Harold Offeh and playfully pose as mannequins in the temporary mirrored studio.
Past - Learn, School The Autumn Studio: Zinzi Minott 9 Oct 2018 Artist and dancer Zinzi Minott leads 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 presents 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, Pavilion Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Serpentine Pavilion 2018 1 Sep 2018 Assistant Curator, Joseph Constable, leads a tour of the Serpentine Pavilion 2018 designed by Frida Escobedo. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
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 - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Natalia Grabowska on Tomma Abts 18 Aug 2018 Assistant Exhibition Curator, Natalia Grabowska leads a tour of Tomma Abts exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. 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: 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, 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 - 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 - Live, Pavilion Saturday Talks: Rebecca Lewin on Serpentine Pavilion 2018 23 Jun 2018 Curator, Rebecca Lewin, leads a tour of the Serpentine Pavilion 2018 designed by Frida Escobedo. 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? 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, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Lizzie Carey Thomas on Tomma Abts 16 Jun 2018 Head of Programmes, Lizzie Carey Thomas lead a tour of Tomma Abts exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
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 gather at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication. See below for participants. Participants include writer Ted Chiang, artist
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 - Live Saturday Talks: Rebecca Lewin on Ian Cheng 5 May 2018 Curator Rebecca Lewin leads a tour of the Ian Cheng exhibition.
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 Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Sondra Perry 21 Apr 2018 Public Programmes Curator, Claude Adjil lead a tour of Sondra Perry: Typhoon Coming On. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
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 in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as a screening of his 2012 film, Outtakes from the
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: Amira Gad on Sondra Perry 24 Mar 2018 Curator, Amira Gad leads a tour of Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on.
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 - Live Saturday Talks: Rebecca Lewin on Wade Guyton 20 Jan 2018 Curator Rebecca Lewin leads a tour of Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged
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 Saturday Talks: Lucia Pietroiusti on Rose Wylie 13 Jan 2018 Public Programmes Curator, Lucia Pietroiusti lead a tour of Rose Wylie's exhibition.
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 Saturday Talks: Melissa Blanchflower on Rose Wylie 9 Dec 2017 Curator Melissa Blanchflower lead a tour of Rose Wylie's exhibition
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 Saturday Talks: Agnes Gryczkowska on Wade Guyton 25 Nov 2017 Assistant Curator Agnes Gryczkowska lead a tour of Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged
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 - Live Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Torbjørn Rødland 4 Nov 2017 Assistant Curator Joseph Constable lead a tour of Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You
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 - 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
