The Serpentine Gallery is proud to present Rock on Top of Another Rock by Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss. The first public sculpture by the artists to be commissioned in the UK, this unique installation in Kensington Gardens, situated outside the Serpentine Gallery, echoes the earliest and most basic types of monuments found around the world: two colossal rocks seemingly balanced precariously one on top of the other. more...

Solo exhibition by influential Paris-based artist Philippe Parreno, his first in a public gallery in the UK. Whether through the cinematic image or the exhibition itself, Parreno explores and manipulates contemporary signs in all of their hallucinatory reality. more...

The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery present a major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens. Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces will be visible across large distances, creating new vistas in this famous and much-loved setting. more...

In her first major institutional show, Klara Lidén will present a series of installations, including previous and new films displayed within the context of architectural interventions in the gallery spaces. more...

Conceived for the Serpentine Gallery, the exhibition explores Tillmans' acute sensitivity to the contemporary world around him, his ongoing fascination with colour, and his conceptual engagement with the technical processes of photography. more...

Visitors are invited to contribute a recording of their heartbeat to the artist’s ongoing collection, which is permanently housed on an uninhabited Japanese island. more...

The work of Berlin-based Nairy Baghramian and London-based Phyllida Barlow shares common sensibilities through its exploration of three-dimensional form, space and narrative. The exhibition will, for the first time, create a dialogue between the work of these two fascinating sculptors. more...

The Serpentine Gallery presents a solo exhibition by one of the world’s most respected living artists, Richard Hamilton. more...

The Serpentine Gallery is developing its commitment to design by inviting influential German product designer Konstantin Grcic to curate Design Real, a groundbreaking presentation of contemporary design. more...

The Serpentine Gallery presents a major exhibition of work by the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger more...

The Serpentine Gallery presents the first survey of a key series of works by the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. more...

Luke Fowler creates cinematic collages that break down conventional approaches to biographical and documentary film-making. more...

Rebecca Warren is known internationally for her exuberant, roughly-worked clay sculptures, bronzes and vitrines. more...

Indian Highway is a groundbreaking exhibition of contemporary Indian culture that embraces art, architecture, film, literature, performance and technology. more...

Gerhard Richter (born Dresden, 1932) is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Since the early 1960s he has tirelessly explored the medium of painting at a time when many were heralding its death. He has produced a remarkably varied body of work, including photography-based portrait, landscape and still-life paintings; gestural and monochrome abstractions; and colour chart grid paintings. In autumn 2008, the Serpentine presented 4900 Colours, a major new work comprising bright monochrome squares randomly arranged in a grid formation to create stunning sheets of kaleidoscopic colour. more...

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. more...

Maria Lassnig is a significant avant-garde pioneer, whose work, over a career lasting 60 years, appears remarkably fresh and vibrant, consistently engaging with successive generations of contemporary artists. more...

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. more...

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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. more...

Matthew Barney is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. Born in San Francisco in 1967, Barney studied Fine Art at Yale University in the late 1980s and on graduating and entering the art world, his controversial and challenging work quickly received critical acclaim. more...

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. more...

American artist Paul Chan has achieved much international acclaim for his animations and installations that blend a novel drawing aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, war and life in the present tense. more...

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. more...

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. more...

In the darkest hour there may be light is the first public exhibition of the murderme collection and Hirst has worked closely with the Serpentine on the selection and presentation of the sculptures, paintings, photography and installations in and around the Gallery. more...

Conditional Probability, a new 16mm film installation by artist and filmmaker Runa Islam, premiered at the Serpentine Gallery. more...

For five weeks in autumn 2006, the Serpentine Gallery took up residence in Battersea Power Station with a presentation of Chinese culture. This was the first chapter in an on-going series of exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art and architecture, organised by the Serpentine Gallery in collaboration with the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Mordern Art, Oslo. more...

The exhibition featured more than 40 artists and surveyed practices spanning appropriation, Pop and socio-political critique. The manifestation of Uncertain States at the Serpentine Gallery updated the project from its inauguration at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in autumn 2005 and subsequent restaging at Bard College, New York, in summer 2006, and serves as a launch pad for future presentations in Iceland, Poland, Russia and China. more...

The Serpentine exhibition included a number of new photographs and a film, as well as a selection of seminal works for which the artist has achieved international acclaim over the last decade. The works were set in a specially designed environment, in response to the gallery’s domestic peculiarity, having originally been designed as a tea pavilion. more...

For his exhibition at the Serpentine Kelly selected 18 works made since 2002, which were shown together for the first time. The works showcased the breadth of scale, colour and forms that characterise his art, including multi-panel works and reliefs in vibrant contrasting colours, as well as shaped canvases and sculpture. more...

The Welfare Show extended the artists' investigation to the welfare model within the Western world. Through a series of works and an extensive, encyclopaedia style catalogue, gallery visitors were invited to consider power structures including economic disparity, health care, immigration, travel, prostitution, the police state and the role art plays in society. This raised such questions as what is the welfare state? How liberal and socially responsible is it? Does it really exist, and is the political system threatened by globalisation and multinationalism? more...

For their exhibition at the Serpentine, the Kabakovs designed a new installation responding to the tranquility of the Gallery's setting within Kensington Gardens. In The House of Dreams, they transformed the Gallery by creating a series of distinct meditative spaces, encouraging visitors to enter into a world of fantasy and daydreams. The installation was a place for rest and quiet contemplation. more...

British artists Oliver Payne and Nick Relph chronicle contemporary culture through their eclectic style of film-making, which is part documentary, part music video, part surveillance tape and part video diary. This exhibition at the Serpentine, the first devoted to the artists in a UK public gallery, surveyed their videos to date, including Comma, Pregnant Pause, 2004, as well as including new work created in 2005. more...