Serpentine Galleries

Christian Boltanski - Les archives du coeur(The Heart Archive)

This summer, the Serpentine Gallery presents the renowned French artist Christian Boltanski’s acclaimed installation, Les archives du coeur (The Heart Archive) alongside the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 designed by Jean Nouvel. This work invites Serpentine visitors to contribute a recording of their heartbeat to the artist’s archive, within a specially designed booth.

Saturday 10 July 2010 to Friday 06 August 2010
Art exhibition in United Kingdom.

Design Real

Serpentine’s first exhibition devoted to contemporary design, curated by leading designer Konstantin Grcic.

Thursday 26 November 2009 to Sunday 07 February 2010
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

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Gustav Metzger

The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of works by the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which examines the artist’s life-long exploration of politics, ecology and the destructive powers of 20th-century society. Metzger’s career has spanned over 60 years and this is the first time such an extensive overview will be presented in this country.

Tuesday 29 September 2009 to Sunday 08 November 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Poetry Marathon

The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is a two-day poetry event featuring performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians.

Saturday 17 October 2009 to Sunday 18 October 2009
Art exhibition in United Kingdom.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 09Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

The designers of the 2009 Pavilion are Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the leading Japanese practice SANAA. The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission is an ongoing programme of temporary structures by internationally acclaimed architects and designers. Unique worldwide, it presents the work of an international architect or design team who have not completed a building in England.

Wednesday 01 July 2009 to Thursday 01 October 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Park Nights 2009

Every Friday night this summer, the Serpentine Gallery presents talks, performances, film-screenings and a licensed bar in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, as part of its annual Park Nights programme. The Gallery’s exhibition Jeff Koons: Popeye Series will also be open every Friday night until 10pm during this time.

Friday 24 July 2009 to Friday 25 September 2009
Art exhibition in United Kingdom.

Jeff KoonsPopeye Series

The Serpentine Gallery presents the first survey of a key series of works by the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality.

Thursday 02 July 2009 to Sunday 13 September 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Cao Fei: RMB City at the Serpentine Gallery

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei (born 1978) is fusing fantasy with the contemporary Chinese city in her construction of RMB City, an experimental art community in the virtual world of Second Life. Cao Fei, through her Second Life avatar 'China Tracy', spent a year exploring the possibilities of Second Life and produced the i.Mirror trilogy, 2007, a series of films that document her adventures.

Cao Fei

Saturday 26 July 2008 to Wednesday 01 July 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Luke FowlerFirst major survey

The films of Luke Fowler explore the limits of documentary film-making. Innovatively combining new and archival footage, interviews and photography with a densely-layered soundtrack, his work is also a critical response to the idea that documentary can offer us a single objective truth.

Thursday 07 May 2009 to Sunday 14 June 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Rebecca WarrenFirst major UK solo show

This Serpentine Gallery exhibition is the first major solo show in a UK public gallery of the work of 2006 Turner Prize-nominated British artist Rebecca Warren. Her practice encompasses wall and floor-based vitrines, sculptures in clay and bronze that range from amorphous to more recognisably figurative forms as well as work that embraces both the formal and the grotesque.

Tuesday 10 March 2009 to Sunday 19 April 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Indian HighwayGroup show

Following the remarkable and rapid economic, social and cultural developments in India in recent years, Indian Highway is a timely presentation of the pioneering work being made in the country today. The culmination of extensive research across India, this group exhibition is a snapshot of a vibrant generation of artists working across a range of media.

Wednesday 10 December 2008 to Sunday 22 February 2009
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Gerhard Richter4900 Colours: Version II

The Serpentine Gallery will present an exhibition by Gerhard Richter, one of the world’s greatest living artists and arguably its greatest living painter. A major new work, entitled 4900 Colours, 2007, comprises bright monochrome squares randomly arranged in a grid formation to create stunning sheets of kaleidoscopic colour.

Tuesday 23 September 2008 to Sunday 16 November 2008
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 08Designed by Frank Gehry

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 is England's first built project by legendary architect Frank Gehry. The spectacular structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup – is anchored by four massive steel columns and is comprised of large timber planks and a complex network of overlapping glass planes that create a dramatic, multi-dimensional space.

Sunday 20 July 2008 to Sunday 19 October 2008
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Richard PrinceContinuation26

Richard Prince is one of the most innovative and influential artists of our time and can be variously described as a painter, photographer, sculptor and collector. His work makes use of an eclectic range of approaches to explore his fascination with Americana, pop culture, art, literature and language.

Thursday 26 June 2008 to Sunday 07 September 2008
Art exhibition in United Kingdom.

Maria Lassnig-

Viennese painter Maria Lassnig (b.1919) has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. She is an avant-garde pioneer with a feminist viewpoint, continuing to produce some of her best work. Lassnig's powerful, bold and introspective paintings investigate human emotions and bodily sensations.

Friday 25 April 2008 to Sunday 08 June 2008
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Derek Jarman Curated by Isaac Julien

The Derek Jarman exhibition will present a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation. Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, it will highlight Jarman’s work in film and painting, including his pioneering presentation of the moving image within the gallery context.

Saturday 23 February 2008 to Sunday 13 April 2008
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Anthony McCall-

British artist Anthony McCall (born 1946) has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. McCall was a key figure in the avant-garde London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s and his earliest films are documents of outdoor performances that were notable for their minimal use of the elements, most notably fire.

Friday 30 November 2007 to Sunday 03 February 2008
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Matthew BarneyDRAWING RESTRAINT

Matthew Barney (born 1967, San Francisco) is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. The Drawing Restraint series investigates the relationship between resistance and creativity and artistic and athletic bodies working at the threshold of physical limitations.

Matthew Barney

Thursday 20 September 2007 to Sunday 11 November 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Hreinn Fridfinnsson-

Hreinn Fridfinnsson is one of Iceland’s leading conceptual artists. His work is celebrated for its lyricism and stark poetry that transcends the often-commonplace subjects and materials that the artist uses to create his pieces.

Tuesday 17 July 2007 to Sunday 02 September 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Paul ChanThe 7 Lights

The Serpentine Gallery is pleased to present the world premiere of the complete series of The 7 Lights, 2005–07, largescale digital projections and drawings that ‘hallucinate’ the seven days of creation from dawn to dusk.

Tuesday 15 May 2007 to Sunday 01 July 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Allora & CalzadillaClamor

Clamor, 2006, a new work by leading artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla exploring the relationship between sound, music and war, has its European premiere at the Serpentine Gallery.

Tuesday 17 April 2007 to Sunday 29 April 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Karen Kilimnik-

America artist Karen Kilimnik’s paintings recall the work of painters from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. Her mise-en-scene approach is inspired by specific rooms in stately homes, horse riding, Tudor architecture and the occult.

Tuesday 20 February 2007 to Monday 09 April 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

In the darkest hour there may be lightWorks from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection

Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world’s best-known living artists. From the start of his career, Hirst has adopted the role of curator, organising a series of exhibitions with a group of young British artists who would come to define cutting-edge art in the 1990s.

Saturday 25 November 2006 to Sunday 28 January 2007
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.

Runa IslamConditional Probability

Conditional Probability, a new 16mm film installation by artist and filmmaker Runa Islam, premiered at the Serpentine Gallery. Commissioned and shown by the Serpentine Gallery, it was the result of a residency at North Westminster Community School (NWCS)in its final year before closure in July 2006.

Wednesday 25 October 2006 to Sunday 05 November 2006
Art exhibition in Greater London, United Kingdom.