Serpentine Gallery

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, including his pioneering presentation... more...

One of the most sublime experiences of the year... You will never see anything like this again.
Daily Telegraph

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. Although there is a consistency of... 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...