Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Nova (POSTPONED) 7 May 2020 This event is postponed. Following careful consideration and in line with advice from Public Health England, all of the Serpentine's public events are suspended until further notice. If you have booked a ticket to an event organised by the
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Cao Fei's Nova (POSTPONED) 30 Apr 2020 A "retro-Sci Fi" movie made out of the artist’s research into the transformation of Beijing’s Jiuxianqiao (Hong Xia) district, Nova tells the story of a computer scientist attempting to turn humans into digital mediums
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Dr Wenny Teo on Cao Fei (TBC) 25 Apr 2020 Dr Wenny Teo, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, Courtauld Institute of Art leads a talk on Cao Fei.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: Cao Fei's Nova (POSTPONED) 22 Apr 2020 This event is postponed. Following careful consideration and in line with advice from Public Health England, all of the Serpentine's public events are suspended until further notice. If you have booked a ticket to an event organised by the
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Haze and Fog (POSTPONED) 20 Apr 2020 On the occasion of Cao Fei's exhibition at Serpentine Galleries, Serpentine Cinema is delighted to present a series of the artist's films screening across the UK.
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Prison Architect (POSTPONED) 31 Mar 2020 This event is postponed. Following careful consideration and in line with advice from Public Health England, all of the Serpentine's public events are suspended until further notice. If you have booked a ticket to an event organised by the
Past - Exhibition Saturday Talks: Natalia Grabowska on Formafantasma (POSTPONED) 28 Mar 2020 This event is postponed. Following careful consideration and in line with advice from Public Health England, all of the Serpentine's public events are suspended until further notice. If you have booked a ticket to an event organised by the
Past - Live, Film Serpentine Cinema: Cao Fei's 11.11 + Live Intro with Scott Lash (POSTPONED) 24 Mar 2020 This event is postponed. Following careful consideration and in line with advice from Public Health England, all of the Serpentine's public events are suspended until further notice. If you have booked a ticket to an event organised by the
Past - Exhibition, Live Saturday Talks: Alexander Boyes on Catharsis (CANCELLED) 14 Mar 2020 THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Enjoy the calming effects of the Catharsis livestream – on view online until 31 March
Past - Live Serpentine x RCA: Formafantasma in conversation with Rebecca Lewin 5 Mar 2020 On the occasion of Cambio, their major new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Formafantasma will be in conversation with curator Rebecca Lewin to discuss the research and development of the project, as well as the designers’ practice.
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema: Nova UK Premiere + Live Q&A 4 Mar 2020 Serpentine Cinema presents the UK premiere of artist Cao Fei’s feature-length film Nova.
Past - Live We Make Tomorrow Summit 26 Feb 2020 Join us for Julie's Bicycle 2020 summit We Make Tomorrow: climate action in a time of crisis. This year, the General Ecology Project are partnering with Julie's Bicycle to curate a series of artist interventions and conversations
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Alexander Boyes on Catharsis 22 Feb 2020 Alexander Boyes, Producer, leads a talk on the Catharsis outdoor installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen that is presented as part of CONNECT, BTS. Visitors are advised to bring their own headphones to experience the immersive soundscape and smartphone
Past - Learn, Live, Cracks in the Curriculum Cracks in the Curriculum: Drawing Outside the Frame - Challenging British Colonial Histories 20 Feb 2020 Artists Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe invite artists, activists and educators working in primary, secondary, further and higher education to rethink the ways we talk about colonialism and its legacy in schools.
Past - 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.
Past - Live THE SKY IS A GENIUS 7 Feb 2020 An evening of poetry readings with Bhanu Kapil, Precious Okoyomon, Nisha Ramayya and Patrick Staff.
Past - Live Future Contemporaries Mystery Nights 6 Feb 2020 'Mystery Nights’ is a fundraising initiative to raise awareness of the Future Contemporaries membership scheme. All proceeds go towards the Future Contemporaries Emerging Artist Fund.
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Joseph Constable on Albert Oehlen 1 Feb 2020 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 - Exhibition, Online Saturday Talks: Alexander Boyes on Catharsis 1 Feb 2020 Alexander Boyes, Producer, leads a talk on the Catharsis outdoor installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen that is presented as part of CONNECT, BTS. Visitors are advised to bring their own headphones to experience the immersive soundscape and smartphone
Past - Live Podcasting for the Arts with Reduced Listening 30 Jan 2020 A workshop exploring the role podcasts and bespoke audio content can play for art institutions.
Past - Live Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Albert Oehlen 18 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.
Past - 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.
Past - Learn, Care Serpentine Projects and Imperial Health Charity Residencies 10 Dec 2019 Over the course of 2019/20, artists Jasleen Kaur and Katie Schwab will work closely with staff and patients at Imperial Health Charity, thinking through questions around frailty and ageing, care and healthcare, and the NHS today.
Past - Live Christodoulos Panayiotou: Dying on Stage 7 Dec 2019 Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou, together with dancer Jean Capeille, 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
Past - Learn, Changing play Rights to... 26 Nov 2019 Rights to… is a forum that brings together parents, carers, educators, activists, and artists to ask how we can create a network of support and solidarity and resist disability discrimination in the education system.
Past - 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.
Past - 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
Past - 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 Children and families joined 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 devised 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, 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,
