Upcoming - 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.
Upcoming - 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.
Upcoming - 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.
Upcoming - Live Saturday Talks: Claude Adjil on Albert Oehlen 25 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.
Current - Learn, Care Serpentine Projects and Imperial College Healthcare 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 College Healthcare Trust, 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, Live COS x Serpentine Park Nights 2019: Precious Okoyomon, The End of the World 5 Jul 2019 Poet and artist Precious Okoyomon presented a new play The End of the World, a spectral-performance that asks the viewer to consider the visceral experience of anti-blackness as an errant and pathological virus and the double articulation of
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,
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Big Family Weekend 29 to 30 Jun 2019 A weekend of art, activism, posters and storytelling. Discover how art and words can change the world.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Pavilion Junya Ishigami and Jakob Kudsk Steensen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 20 Jun 2019 Architect Junya Ishigami and artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen discussed the Serpentine Pavilion 2019 and the Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission in a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine
Past - Live, Exhibition An Evening with Faith Ringgold 6 Jun 2019 Pioneering artist, activist, educator and author Faith Ringgold was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, on the opening day of her first solo exhibition in a European public institution. For more than five
Past - Live The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants 19 May 2019 Serpentine Galleries presented the third installment of this symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project. The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants brought together scientists, anthropologists,
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturdays Live: Tabita Rezaire, MerKaBa For The Hoeteps 18 May 2019 In the context of Emma Kunz's exhibition artist Tabita Rezaire presented MerKaBa For The Hoeteps, a collective healing offering. This experience was open to all and participants were encouraged to wear comfortable clothes.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Tour: Disabled People Against Cuts 4 May 2019 Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) lead a Power Tour to raise awareness of the disproportionate and adverse impacts of so-called "welfare reform" measures on disabled people since 2010, and how disabled people have been
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Amira Gad on Hito Steyerl 4 May 2019 Curator, Amira Gad leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: The Voice of Domestic Workers 28 Apr 2019 The Voice of Domestic Workers began this walk with real-life accounts of domestic workers being rescued in Hyde Park, London. A self-organised network and campaign calling for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers,
Past - Live, Exhibition Sunday Talk: Amal Khalaf and Elizabeth Graham on Hito Steyerl 28 Apr 2019 Projects Curator, Amal Khalaf and Assistant Projects Curator, Elizabeth Graham lead a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request, visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Learn, Family, Family Day Family Weekend: plants in common 27 to 28 Apr 2019 Artists One Of My Kind (OOMK) invited children and their families to come together to think about what we give and take from the natural world.
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Kay Watson on Hito Steyerl 27 Apr 2019 Curator, Kay Watson leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: Constantine Gras 27 Apr 2019 Constantine Gras, a former artist-in-residence for Grenfell Tower, lead Washing Dirty Linen in Public, a multi-vocal performative walk that uncovered the histories of resistance and reproductive labour in North Kensington.
Past - Learn, School Educators Evening 24 Apr 2019 Serpentine Education invites teachers to attend a late opening of the current exhibitions Emma Kunz - Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou and Hito Steyerl: Power Plants.
Past - Learn, School The Spring Studio: Belinda Zhawi 23 Apr 2019 Poet and writer Belinda Zhawi, the Serpentine's Schools Artist-in-Residence 2019, led a series of creative writing workshops with school groups.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walk: Architects for Social Housing 13 Apr 2019 Architects for Social Housing (ASH) lead a walk to explore how increasing privatisation and legislation affects our ability to access the city and how these changes contribute to the housing crisis.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Learn Power Walks 13 Apr 2019 A series of guided neighbourhood walks and a tour led by Hito Steyerl's Actual RealityOS research partners; Architects for Social Housing, Disabled People Against Cuts, The Voice of Domestic Workers and artist
Past - Live, Exhibition Saturday Talks: Eva Jäger on Hito Steyerl 13 Apr 2019 Assistant Curator, Eva Jäger leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
Past - Live PLANTSEX 12 Apr 2019 On the occasion of the exhibition of visionary artist and healer Emma Kunz, the Serpentine Galleries' General Ecology project presented an evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany
Past - Live AION A: A Workshop on Emma Kunz's Healing Practice 31 Mar 2019 On the occasion of Emma Kunz's exhibition, homeopath Jacqueline G. Schaerer led a practical workshop on the uses of Kunz's healing rock, AION A.
Past - Live Serpentine Cinema & General Ecology: On Earth at The Long Now 30 Mar 2019 Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with MaerzMusik and Berlin Atonal present Serpentine Cinema & General Ecology: On Earth at The Long Now, with films by Sophia Al-Maria, Matthew Burdis, Alexander George and James Capper, Cao Guimarães and
Past - Sound, Live, Learn Podcasting for the Arts with Reduced Listening 27 Mar 2019 A workshop exploring the role podcasts and bespoke audio content can play for art institutions.
Past - Live The Creativity Code: Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 18 Mar 2019 To celebrate the publication of his latest book, The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think, Marcus du Sautoy was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries.
Past - Learn, Live, Unwritten Handbook Unwritten Handbook: Jasleen Kaur 16 Mar 2019 Artist Jasleen Kaur discussed her practice and recent projects. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within materials and objects.
Past - Live, Exhibition A Time for New Dreams: Eating At the Same Table Reading Group 15 Mar 2019 Eating At The Same Table hosted an evening reading group to discuss and digest the ideas explored in Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time For New Dreams. Drawing on texts, sounds and hymns featured in the exhibition and beyond, the evening
Past - Live As Told To G/D Thyself: Kamasi Washington in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist 1 Mar 2019 To celebrate the UK premiere of As Told To G/D Thyself, Kamasi Washington was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries. Washington’s new short film is presented by The Store X, Young Turks and Serpentine
Past - Exhibition As Told To G/D Thyself: Kamasi Washington 1 Mar 2019 The Store X, Young Turks and Serpentine Galleries presented the UK premiere of Kamasi Washington’s new short film As Told To G/D Thyself at The Store X, 180 The Strand, London.
Past - Live Marina Abramović: The Life 19 Feb 2019 Art and technology combined for a world first with Marina Abramović, the pioneering performance artist, and the presentation of her performance: The Life in Mixed Reality (a wearable augmented experience).
Past - Live, Exhibition An Exercise in Balance 16 Feb 2019 Artist and dancer MJ Harper devised a performance in the context of Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams.
Past - Live, Exhibition A Study for An Exercise in Balance 12 to 13 Feb 2019 Artist and dancer MJ Harper took residence within Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams, performing a daily ritual of movements ahead of An Exercise in Balance.
Past - Live, Exhibition All My Youngers 8 Feb 2019 Poet, writer and broadcaster Kei Miller was joined by a choir for a special reading inside Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition, A Time for New Dreams. The evening also featured poet and DJ James Massiah who presented a series of readings, with
Past - Live, Exhibition, Sound A Time for New Dreams: Klein 23 Jan 2019 Composer and playwright Klein presented a reading in the context of Grace Wales Bonner's exhibition A Time for New Dreams.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth and Gardening 22 Jan 2019 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing humans' impact on the biosphere and the environment. The fourth and final
Past - Live, Sound Devotional Sound 19 Jan 2019 Following the opening of A Time for New Dreams at Serpentine Galleries, Grace Wales Bonner presented a devotional sound evening at St John’s Church, featuring Sampha, Laraaji, Klein and special guests.
Past - Live, Exhibition, Sound A Time for New Dreams: Laraaji 18 Jan 2019 On 18 and 20 January, musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner, Laraaji led a series of workshops during the opening days of the Grace Wales Bonner exhibition that became a lasting shrine of sound.
Past - Film, Live Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Missing and Memory 14 Jan 2019 As part of the General Ecology project, and on the occasion of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition, Serpentine Cinema presented a programme of artists’ films addressing humans' impact on the biosphere and the environment.
Past - Learn, Language and Power ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre Publication Workshop Launch 12 Jan 2019 ACT ESOL presented their new publication ACT ESOL Language, Resistance, Theatre at Conway Hall on 12 January 2019.
