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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 Designed by Sou Fujimoto 8 June - 20 October 2013

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:19:42 +0000

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Designed by Sou Fujimoto
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PAST PROJECTS

Sou Fujimoto
House N, 2008
Oita, Japan
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects
© Iwan Baan

Sou Fujimoto
Tokyo Apartment 2010
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects
© Iwan Baan

Sou Fujimoto
Final Wooden House, 2008
Kumamoto, Japan
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects
© Iwan Baan

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House NA, 2011
Tokyo, Japan
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects
© Iwan Baan

Sou Fujimoto
Musashino Art University Library, 2010
Tokyo, Japan
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects
© Daici Ano

Sou Fujimoto
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Free Cinema School Salon: John Akomfrah - Policing the Crisis Thursday 28 February 2013

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:16:00 +0000

7-9pm

Centre for Possible Studies
21 Gloucester Place
London W1U 8HR

Acclaimed film-maker John Akomfrah shares archival footage related to the ground breaking study on policing undertaken by Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School in 1978.

About the Edgware Road Project

The Edgware Road Project links local and visiting artists with residents, business owners and students to produce 'possible studies' in this London neighbourhood.

Artists participating include: Åbäke, Khalid Abdalla & Cressida Trew, CAMP, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Susan Hefuna, Lamia Joreige, Hiwa K, no.w.here, Marwan Rechmaoui, Rania Stephan, Wael Shawky, Emily Wardill and Ultra-red.

The Edgware Road Project is based at the Centre for Possible Studies, 21 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8HR, and hosts film screenings, events and a project archive.

Contact information:
Janna Graham, Projects Curator
jannag@serpentinegallery.org

Amal Khalaf, Assistant Curator, Projects amalk@serpentinegallery.org

Public Talk Sou FujimotoSaturday 8 June 2013

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:19:43 +0000

3pm

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Architect Sou Fujimoto discusses his visionary design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, a delicate, cloud-like structure that experiments with immateriality and weightlessness. Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujimoto (born 1971) is the leading light of an exciting generation of artists who are re-inventing our relationship with the built environment. Inspired by organic structures, such as the forest, the nest and the cave, Fujimoto's signature buildings inhabit a space between nature and artificiality.

Describing his design concept, Sou Fujimoto said: "For the 2013 Pavilion I propose an architectural landscape: a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways. Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment will be created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural nor solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two."

In this talk - the first of a series of public events that will take place in the 2013 Pavilion over the summer - Sou Fujimoto speaks about his practice and the concepts driving his designs.

Find out more about the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto

Note: Due to the nature of the Pavilion, the event has limited capacity and is ticketed. Limited space may be available on the lawn adjacent to the Pavilion on a first-come, first-served basis. The Pavilion is an open structure. As such, please be aware that weather conditions may affect the events.

Tickets: £8/£6

Available from the Serpentine Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb or 08444 999 999

Serpentine Gallery closed for refurbishment

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:24:05 +0000

The Serpentine Gallery is currently closed for refurbishment.

The Gallery will re-open on 8 June with the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto.

Our outdoor commission, Rock on Top of Another Rock by Fischli/Weiss, is free to visit until 6 March 2014. For more information, please visit our Fischli/Weiss exhibition page.

Koenig Books will re-open 13 May 2013.

Later this year, the Serpentine Gallery will open its new space, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. This innovative arts venue for the 21st century will be housed in the Grade II-listed building formerly known as The Magazine, situated in Kensington Gardens. Like the Serpentine Gallery, it will be free of charge and accessible to all, presenting every aspect of contemporary culture through exhibitions, installations, performances and special commissions.

Ultra-red RE:ASSEMBLY 18-21 April 2013

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:40:18 +0000

Off-site exhibition at multiple locations
Open 1-6pm

Download the RE:ASSEMBLY exhibition guide (pdf)

Mobile site and audio guide:
www.re-assembly.org

Opening Event: 17 April, 6pm, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT

Site 1: The St Marylebone Church of England School
14 Blandford Street, W1U 4AZ

Site 2: St Marylebone Parish Church
17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT

Site 3: The St Marylebone Church of England School
64 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5BA

The Serpentine Gallery's Edgware Road Project presents RE:ASSEMBLY, an exhibition by sound art collective Ultra-red with students and teachers from The St. Marylebone Church of England School in London.

Since 2009, Ultra-red have worked with students and teachers across many subject areas. Embedded into the curriculum, they have developed sound walks, audio recordings and listening sessions departing from the question, "What is the sound of citizenship?".

Like most other schools in London, the St Marylebone student body is diverse. Many of the students are refugees, asylum seekers or new immigrants to the United Kingdom. Consequently, the legal issues surrounding state citizenship have a particular urgency within the school. This is not, however, the only form of citizenship students must negotiate. Schools are essential to the production of social citizenship, which involves preparing the young to participate actively and productively in civic and community life.

Responding to these issues, Ultra-red led students through a set of actions in the classroom and sound walks through the surrounding neighbourhood. They listened to the school, the city and each other. Listening situated groups in the present and brought the big questions of citizenship into the everyday activities of the school and the city. Together they reflected on how rules, regulations and social norms affect learning and visions of life beyond school.

Throughout the project Ultra-red invited other artists and activists into the school. During a Year 8 'Citizenship Day' where the school might have invited in police officers, councillors or businessmen as guest speakers, Ultra-red invited trade unionists, housing activists and migrants' rights organisers to be interviewed by the students. Working with 150 students in Geography and History, Ultra-red brought artists and activists to redevelop a special unit on migration, based on listening exercises in the neighbourhood and the school.

The works exhibited in RE: ASSEMBLY draw from the archive of student and teacher responses to a number of issues: the relationship between the school and the neighbourhood, the relationship between state and social citizenship, issues of private property as well as the contradictory demands society places on young people and their role in developing the future.

Providing a glimpse of four years' work, RE: ASSEMBLY presents installations and performances at three locations.

This Orientation, a downloadable audio walk made by Ultra-red in collaboration with Year 11 students, departs from the school's Blandford Street location and situates the students' observations about their education in a broader historical context. Possible Conversations presents the school's head teacher, arts faculty members, students and local activists on nearby rooftops listening to the city and making statements about its future, referencing the angels on the church's cupola.

Mapping the Political Economy of Edgware Road includes composites images and texts created with Year 11 students in response to four areas of the school's neighbourhood. In Hymnal, religious texts are replaced with the students' analyses of citizenship in the local area and school and then embedded into the fabric of St Marylebone Parish Church. In the church's crypt, Songs for Edgware Road presents five students interpreting songs from Hymnal through choreography developed with the late Gill Clarke and projected at life scale.

At the school's Marylebone High Street location, Songs for Getting Through displays concrete plaques marked with the lyrics and song titles that help students survive exams and daily pressures in and out of school. In Lessons, the teachers' own thoughts are inscribed into six framed textiles.

The exhibition is not the project's end point. As members of Ultra-red state: 'Our listening is an act of respect and caring, and it manifests a certain vision of what it might mean to see each other as citizens. While the works exhibited in RE:ASSEMBLY represent an outcome of our collaboration, they are starting points for the next phase of the investigation. They are not only a response to the question "What is the sound of citizenship?" but they are also an invitation to others to come together and explore the question within the context of this city. This is a process described by Paulo Freire, the Brazilian popular educator, as "people's thinking about reality and people's action upon reality."'

Ultra-red
Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red use sound-based research to directly engage political struggle. With ten members working in North America and Europe, Ultra-red pursue a dynamic exchange between art and political organising, from which they produce radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, essays and installations. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, the collective has expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements, including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development and the politics of HIV/AIDS. Their recent explorations, undertaken as the School of Echoes, have shifted the group's work from composing sound to composing listening, inviting groups to listen to and record what is already there and respond to the question, "What did you hear?".

The St Marylebone Church of England School, founded in 1791, is a successful, multi-faith comprehensive school for girls aged from eleven to eighteen. It is among the country's first 100 National Teaching Schools and cites the presence of the performing arts throughout its curriculum as central to its resurgence and a key driver for its achievements. The school places a high premium on arts education. Since 2009 teachers and students in Art, Geography, History, Performing Arts and Citizenship have been working with artists and activists from the collective Ultra-red to develop a cross-subject, socially-motivated arts curriculum. Led by teachers and students from the School, this roundtable will develop this curriculum.

Events

Wednesday 17 April 2013
OPENING EVENT
Songs for Edgware Road: A choral performance
St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT

6pm

This opening event for RE:ASSEMBLY is a performance of choral works from the Hymnal, a work written by the students in the style of the song book used at St Marylebone Parish Church.

The performance is followed by a reception at The St Marylebone Church of England School.

Saturday 20 April 2013
Educators Forum: What is the sound of critical arts education today?
The Front Room (Room MG14), University of Westminister, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

2-5pm

In a climate of economic austerity and cuts to the arts, what kind of arts education is possible? Join artists and educators for listening sessions and round-table discussions related to how art, design and architecture education might be reoriented towards critical spatial analysis and action.

Roundtables will be led by the Radical Education Forum; Another Roadmap for Arts Education; Department of Architecture, University of Westminster and students and teachers at The St Marylebone Church of England School.

The event is free of charge, but booking is essential. Please email information@serpentinegallery.org.

Credits

RE:ASSEMBLY is curated by

Janna Graham, Projects Curator
jannag@serpentinegallery.org

Amal Khalaf, Projects Assistant Curator
amalk@serpentinegallery.org

RE:ASSEMBLY was produced by Ultra-red members Chris Jones, Dont Rhine and Robert Sember

Ultra-red's residency on the Edgware Road Project was commissioned by Sally Tallant, Artistic Director Liverpool Biennial (former Head of Programmes, Serpentine Gallery. It was undertaken in collaboration with The St Marylebone Church of England School and Raven Row.

The Serpentine Gallery's Edgware Road Project links local and international artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. The Edgware Road Project is a Serpentine Gallery Project undertaken in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut and Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.

Serpentine Gallery Projects challenge expectations of where art can be encountered and by whom.

Ultra-red collaborators

Dahlia Abbassy, Sophia Abbassy, Merna Abbas Abdoun, Nora Abdoun-Mohammed, Tanisha Abdul-Rahman, Seebal Aboudounya, Ragaa Adam, Sumaiya Ahmed, Sarah Akapelwa, Sara Al Anzy, Gabriella Alberti, Nelly Alfandari, Sajad Al Hairy, Mariam Ali, Hanan Ali Omer Abubaker, Asal-Bonu Allaberganova, Reem Al-Rammahi, Noor Al-Tememi, Chei Amiss-Clarke, Sarah-Jane Angel, Nicole Antonio, Bronwen Rose Anwyl, Zahara Arran, Oluwatomilola Awosika, Sophie Barrett, Fatha Begum, Christina Belous-Pasichnyi, Diana Beltekian, Georgina Benn-O'Leary, Khrystyna Berezovska, Melody Berkery-Sithole, Nayeema Binth Abdul Haye, Ashley Blissett-Jones, Bianca Boldeau, Andy Bowden, Bevis Bowden, Zoran Braconov, Polly Brannan, Naomi Brown, Lucy Buckerfield, Isabella Busoni-Conway, Verena Alexandra Camesasca, Ava Caradonna, Vicky Cerdeño, Lydia Charles, Tajmila Chowdhury, Gill Clarke, Clara Collingwood, Leanne Commins, Adam Connor, Sophie Cornelius, Mary Coulson, Louisa Grace Courtenay-Pinfield, Magdalene Crabbe, Imogen Crane, Georgina Crowley, Stephanie Cubbin, Keisha Cudjoe, Jade Day, Charlie Dark, Hazel Deger, Khadine Dennis, Alice Dermody-Palmer, Isabella Di Stefano, Zoe Dimoldenberg, Sara Djadi, Hannah Drew, Donika Dumani, Alexandra Donofrio, Florence Eckersley, Alberto Einstein, Judy El-Hajjar, Faiza El-Jabbi, Sunday Ellis, Noir El Noor, Georgia El-Nour, Ayantu Eratu, Revd Canon Stephen Evans, Simeon Featherstone, Anna Fletcher, Isabel Fletcher, Sadie Fletcher, Sofia Fontana-Giusti, Imogen Foster, Carolina Galvao, Elizabeth Gater, Sonia George, Lindsay Gillham, Natasha Gillingham, Danny Gilzene, Kitty Glavin, Nadiya Gonsalves, Rebecca Gottshalk Mussington, Hannah Gouldstone, Sumara Goumain-Thorpe, Audra Graham, Flora Grant, Levine Grant, Jessica Hagan, Marla Hamed, Jehan Hamze, Imogen Harris, Marnie Harris-Hatschek, Francesca Hawkes, Tiyah Nina Hernandez Pierrepont, India Hill, Olivia Hinds, Fay Hooper, Borita Hor, Jon Hunter, Shahad Ismail, Mai Ito, John James, Jade John, Liz Jones, Peter Jordan, Le'reyce Josephs, Ali Kamara, Tina Kandelaki, Renna Kassir, Saba Kebede, Lara Kester, Jakia Khan, Romana Khan, Ashley Khor, Nellie Khossousi, Sara Killeen, Daniel Kim, Maja Kozlowska, Kokoma Kwaku, Stasa Lalovic, Paige Lockwood, Robbie Lockwood, Revd Jide Macaulay, Sacha Marson, Howard Matthew, Jenny Maxwell, Rhianne McFarlane, Ella McKenzie, Ella McNulty, Birte Meyer, Kate Miller, Reika Miller, Katalin Milnes, Dania Mohamed, Iman Mohd Hadzhalie, Molly Monroe, Helena Moock, Chloe Moore, Grace Moynihan, Gedear Muhammad, Dalin Murad, Hoda Nafee, Ruby Nightingale, Tinashe Nyagumbo, Nancy O'Flynn, Risa Ogura, Isabella Partridge, Elle Pearman, Zoe Peltier, Elizabeth Phillips, Katie Pierce, Poppy Pippin, Zara Preston, Ceinwen Pryce, Samiha Rahman, Sam Rami, Orla Rea, Sayeeda Reema, Fiza Rehman, Isotta Reichenbach, Nishath Rob, Mari Robakidze, Matthew Roberts, Maya Robinson-Nugent, Wafa Sabbah, Noor Sahan, Victoria Sampson, Alexandra Sarpe, Lola Seaton, Toyi See Toh, Sara Semic, Imogen Sewell Risley, Maisha Shahid, Annie Shambler, Nancy Sheppard, Suzanne Ellis Slack, Gabriela Solomon, St Marylebone Young Voices, Saloni Sundargi, Joo Eyun Sung, Melanie Tang, Zoe Tankard, Amber Thompson, Ashleigh Thompson, Uptown Embroidery, Sylvia Velasquez, Anna Vlassova-Longworth, Dora Wade, Kezia Webborn, Megan Welch, Tom White, Riah Wilkinson, Lily Woolcock, Serena Yagoub, Samia Zhaibet

Press coverage

Ultra-red: RE:ASSEMBLY and St. Marylebone Church of England School, One Stop Arts, Thursday 25 April 2013

Educators Forum Saturday 20 April 2013

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:20:39 +0000

What is the sound of a critical arts education today?
University of Westminster, Front Room (MG14)
35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS
2-5 pm

In a climate of economic austerity and cuts to the arts, what kind of arts education is possible? Join artists and educators for listening sessions and round-table discussions related to how art, design and architecture education might be reoriented towards critical spatial analysis and action.

Roundtables will be led by the Radical Education Forum; Another Roadmap for Arts Education; Department of Architecture, University of Westminster and students and teachers at The St Marylebone Church of England School.

The event is free of charge, but booking is essential. To book a place, please email information@serpentinegallery.org

The event is part of RE:ASSEMBLY, a multi-site exhibition by sound art collective Ultra-red in collaboration with students and teachers at The St Marylebone Church of England School from April 18-21 2013 developed through the Serpentine Gallery Edgware Road Project.

Educators Forum contributors:

Another Roadmap for Arts Education is an international research network initiated by the Institute of Art Education (IAE) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It involves more than 16 regional research groups working to critically analyse the Road Map for Arts Education as presented by UNESCO (Lisbon, 2006 and continued in the Seoul Agenda from 2010), in terms of its history and terminology, subtexts and paradigms as well as the application of policies in each of the different parts of the world. The main research areas of the research network include analysing policies and practices of arts education (in the context of the increased interest the role of creativity and other core assumptions of the UNESCO documents from 2006/2012); critically assessing the continuing hegemony of a colonial Westernised Arts Education and plotting alternatives and developing other paradigms for practice and research in Arts Education. Members of the London group will present and invite responses to the UNESCO Roadmap and other education policy documents related the language of 'creativity.'

Radical Education Forum is a group of people working in a wide range of educational settings who meet monthly to discuss radical pedagogical theories and techniques as well as contemporary issues of interest to those involved in education. The Forum supports social justice in education, linking practitioners within mainstream educational institutions, community education initiatives, social movements, arts organisations and self-organised groups. Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month from 7-9pm and are open to all. In 2012 the forum published the Radical Education Workbook from which they will present options for engaging critically with state curriculum objectives. The workbook is available at: radicaleducationforum.tumblr.com

The St Marylebone Church of England School, founded in 1791, is a successful, multi-faith comprehensive school for girls aged from eleven to eighteen. It is among the country's first 100 National Teaching Schools and cites the presence of the performing arts throughout its curriculum as central to its resurgence and a key driver for its achievements. The school places a high premium on arts education. Since 2009 teachers and students in Art, Geography, History, Performing Arts and Citizenship have been working with artists and activists from the collective Ultra-red to develop a cross-subject, socially-motivated arts curriculum. Led by teachers and students from the School, this roundtable will develop this curriculum.
The Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster will facilitate dialogue between its architecture staff and students, WEx (the University's pedagogical research group), Architects for Change (the equality forum at the Royal Institute of British Architects), the Architecture Students Network (an independent network of student representatives from schools of architecture within the UK) and architectural practitioners who teach. These seemingly disparate groups will focus their attention on the studio, the core of architectural education. The group will reflect on studio culture within schools of architecture to examine traits, rituals, and myths which are persistently reinforced, serving to include some while excluding others. In addition, the roundtable will discuss how the studio can respond to the current privatisation of higher education, which will usher in a more exclusive and less diverse future profession. The foundations for such a future are being laid at a time when students from a variety of backgrounds will be needed to address the challenges of localism, social division, and globalisation. How can pedagogical strategies help to recast the studio as a representative and multi-sited space, and one which supports not only design excellence, but also social justice and exchange?

Ultra-red
Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red use sound-based research to directly engage political struggle. With ten members working in North America and Europe, Ultra-red pursue a dynamic exchange between art and political organising, from which they produce radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, essays and installations. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, the collective has expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements, including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development and the politics of HIV/AIDS. Their recent explorations, undertaken as the School of Echoes, have shifted the group's work from composing sound to composing listening, inviting groups to listen to and record what is already there and respond to the question, "What did you hear?". Ultra-red's residency on the Edgware Road Project was undertaken in collaboration with The St Marylebone Church of England School and Raven Row.

Serpentine Gallery Edgware Road Project
The Serpentine Gallery's Edgware Road Project links local and international artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. It is based at the Centre for Possible Studies, its itinerant home. In the five years since its inception, the Edgware Road Project has developed over 15 projects in which artists have worked with local café workers, students, tourists, older people's groups, sex workers, precariously-housed people and recent migrants to the area. The many 'possible studies' of the Edgware Road Project unfold over a number of years, supporting analysis and action in relation to the local area and encouraging trust and ethical relationships between the artists and their collaborators. The art works and research produced through each 'possible study' are presented in an online archive and an exhibition, in addition to pamphlets and other printed items distributed in venues along the Edgware Road.

Participating artists include: Åbäke, Khalid Abdalla & Cressida Trew, CAMP, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Susan Hefuna, Lamia Joreige, Hiwa K, no.w.here, Marwan Rechmaoui, Rania Stephan, Wael Shawky, Emily Wardill and Ultra-red

The Edgware Road Project is based at the Centre for Possible Studies, 21 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8HR, and hosts film screenings, events and a project archive.

For more information please visit www.serpentinegallery.org or the Centre for Possible Studies blog.

RE:ASSEMBLY is curated by

Janna Graham, Education Projects Curator
jannag@serpentinegallery.org

Amal Khalaf, Edgware Road Project Assistant
amalk@serpentinegallery.org

The Edgware Road Project is a Serpentine Gallery Project undertaken in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut and Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.

Serpentine Gallery Projects challenge expectations of where art can be encountered and by whom.

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos 13 February - 7 April 2013

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:14:02 +0000

SERPENTINE SOUND SERIES
Listen to an audio introduction to Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, written by Dominic Eichler

Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952 in Schwerte, Germany) has long been admired for her highly independent and influential practice.

In A Cosmos Trockel places her work in the company of others to explore varying disciplines. Central to the exhibition are a number of core works, including new works never seen before in the UK, by Trockel, and arranged around these in a constellation according to type and theme are artefacts, both natural and human.

A Cosmos reflects the artist's interest in creating a space for ideas to exist between different disciplines, past and present. Many of the objects and artworks, selected by Trockel in dialogue with curator Lynne Cooke, produce a context for the artist's work within other fields of inquiry, such as the natural sciences and natural history. Watercolours painted by the pioneering botanist Maria Sibylla Merian sit alongside intricate models of marine invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, initially used as research tools by naturalists who had no access to living specimens.

Works by self-taught artists, such as Judith Scott and James Castle, are presented in parallel with films, such as Władysław Starewicz's early, pioneering stop-motion animation of 1912, The Cameraman's Revenge. Trockel's appreciation of such variously under-recognised objects and artists stems from her empathy both with the questions their work addresses, and with the directness and inventiveness with which they are realised. These artists provide models of dedication to their chosen field that, for Trockel, are exemplary and inspiring.

A Cosmos traces an historical lineage from the early cabinets of curiosities (the wunderkammer) to natural history and modern art museums through to the white cube of contemporary galleries. Within this framework there is a focus on the relationship between skill and craft, and the practices of self-taught and under-recognised artists, reflecting Trockel's ongoing tendency to overturn traditional disciplinary categories. The objects that make up this cosmos offer a wealth of resonant relationships between different fields of knowledge and experience, proposing that we remain open to new discoveries.

For more than thirty years Trockel has resisted an identifiable style, working in a variety of materials, including wool, bronze and found objects, and a range of mediums, including photography, collage, video and assemblage. The constants of her wide-ranging practice include issues that have long occupied her thinking and that have underpinned her diverse activity, such as contrasting ideas of feminism as well as the divides constructed between amateur and professional, celebrity and anonymity, and the fine and applied arts. More broadly, through her works Trockel probes not only interrelationships between humans and animals but also our impact, as a species, on the natural world.

The subject of numerous solo shows, Trockel's works have been exhibited widely, including at New Museum, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Trockel represented Germany at the 1999 Venice Biennale and participated in Documenta in 1997 and 2012.

This exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke and organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

Sound Series

Berlin-based writer and musician Dominic Eichler has written a free, downloadable, audio introduction for Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos. Recorded in the style of a radio play for four female voices, this audio work reflects upon the exhibition in the context of Trockel's wider oeuvre, while also discussing several of the objects and artworks in the Serpentine Gallery show. This audio introduction is designed to be enjoyed on visitors' own mobile devices whilst in the Gallery or at home.

To find out more about our Dominic Eichler's audio guide, please visit our Sound Series page.

Talks and events

Saturday 23 February 2013
Rosemarie Trockel and Perspectives On A Cosmos

Saturday 2 March 2013
The Thinking Body: A Cosmos

Press coverage

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos - review
The Observer, Sunday 17 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel - A Cosmos @ Serpentine
Londonist, Sunday 17 February 2013

CultureLab: How to use art to help explore other minds
New Scientist, Wednesday 13 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything
The Guardian, Thursday 14 February 2013

A Cosmos: Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine Gallery - in pictures
The Guardian, Thursday 14 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel, A Cosmos - Zoe Pilger's 4 star review
The Independent, Thursday 14 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos - Ben Luke's 4 star review
London Evening Standard, Thursday 14 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos
One Stop Arts, Thursday 14 February 2013

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos
The New Yorker, Friday 4 January 2013

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos - review
The Guardian, Thursday 8 November 2012

Connecting Kindred Spirits - 'Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos,' at the New Museum
New York Times, Thursday 25 October 2012

Catalogue

Rosemarie Trockel has long been admired for her highly independent and intrepid exploration of certain fundamental questions, a A Cosmos places her work in the company of others whom she regards as kindred spirits. Comparison - not as a form of judgement but as the descriptive juxtaposition of elements - forms the basis of Trockel's current work.

This catalogue is produced by Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, featuring essays by Lynne Cooke, Dore Ashton, Suzanne Judson, and Anne Wagner. Paperback, 224pp.

Buy Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos from our online shop

Rock on Top of Another Rock: An Evening with Peter Fischli Tuesday 2 April 2013

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:56:36 +0000

7pm

Hochhauser Auditorium
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL

The Serpentine Gallery presents a talk by Peter Fischli and architect Adam Caruso on the occasion of the Fischli/Weiss installation in Kensington Gardens, Rock on Top of Another Rock. Precariousness, stability and a sense of absurd, evoked by the monumental sculpture, will be discussed, offering a unique insight into the project and the artists' wider practice.

Since the late 1970s Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) have captivated audiences with their transformations of the common-place and their finely-judged balance of humour and seriousness. Fischli/Weiss's work crosses a wide range of media, but underpinning all of it is a spirit of discovery that encourages us to take a fresh look at our surroundings. Everyday objects take on an unexpectedly lifelike quality; they balance on each other, play off each other and collide into one another. Fischli/Weiss won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale in 2003 for Questions, an installation of over 1,000 photographic slides of handwritten existential questions the artists had collected over many years.

Adam Caruso and Peter St John established Caruso St John Architects in 1990. Projects by the practice include; New Art Gallery Walsall, Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Brick House, London and Gagosian Galleries in London, Rome, Paris and Hong Kong. Recently completed projects include Nottingham Contemporary and the new Café at Chiswick Gardens. The practice have been architects for Tate Britain since 2007. Adam Caruso is Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich.

With support from The Royal Norwegian Embassy, London

Tickets: £9/£6
Available from the Victoria & Albert Museum
Box Office: +44 (0) 207 942 2211 or visit www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/

Fischli/Weiss Rock on Top of Another Rock 7 March 2013 - 6 March 2014

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:24:41 +0000

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Installation view, Rock on Top of Another Rock 2013
Serpentine Gallery, London
(7 March 2013 - 6 March 2014)
© Peter Fischli David Weiss
Photograph: 2013 Morley von Sternberg

Fischli/Weiss
Rock on Top of Another Rock 2012
Installation in Valdresflya, Norway
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
© Peter Fischli David Weiss
Photo by Guri Dahl

Fischli/Weiss
Rock on Top of Another Rock 2012
Installation in Valdresflya, Norway
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London;
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
© 2012 Peter Fischli David Weiss

Fischli/Weiss
Rock on Top of Another Rock 2012
Indicative CGI
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
© Peter Fischli David Weiss

Fischli/Weiss
Rock on Top of Another Rock 2012
Testing rocks in Wales
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London;
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
© 2012 Peter Fischli David Weiss

Deloitte Family Day Creative Creatures Sunday 3 March 2013

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:38:30 +0000

12-5pm

Join Polly Brannan and Nefeli Skarmea, in residence at The Studio, to explore the natural world through play and movement, in response to the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos.

The Studio is based at the Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery. Deloitte Family Days take place at the Serpentine Gallery.

All ages are welcome to these free, drop-in events. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Supported by

Free Teachers' Notes to support each exhibition are available at the Gallery Lobby Desk or at www.serpentinegallery.org/education

Families, young people, schools and community groups are at the core of the Serpentine Gallery's activities. Through practical, artist-led workshops, seminars, talks, events and projects, the Gallery offers a diverse range of innovative ways to engage with modern and contemporary art and architecture for all ages.

For group visits, workshop bookings or further information:
education@serpentinegallery.org

Saturday Seminar The Thinking Body: A Cosmos Saturday 2 March 2013

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:16:00 +0000

3pm

Sackler Centre of Arts Education

The Studio residents Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan discuss bodies, creatures, movement and dance in the context of Rosemarie Trockel's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Drawing the series of workshops to a close, Skarmea and Brannan address the questions raised by Trockel's work as well as the role of 'audience member' and 'participant' in the exhibition space.

Free, no booking required.

Nefeli Skarmea (born Athens, Greece) is based in Berlin and studies Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. A dancer with the companies Tanztheater Nuremberg, Stammer Productions/Colette Sadler and Alias/Guilherme Botelho, recent productions include Sideways Rain (2010-2013, touring). Upcoming projects include Martin Creed's Ballet Work No 1020. In 2010, Nefeli began to collaborate with choreographer Sergiu Matis and visual artist Ladislav Zajac on the production of Doom Room, a movement research project which brought her to residencies in LaborGras, Berlin and Kinitras Studio, Athens. In her curatorial research, Nefeli is interested in the relationships between movement, dance and the gallery space.

Polly Brannan, an artist and educator, is Education Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Since graduating with a BA Fine Art in 2003, Polly has produced exhibitions, talks, programmes, happenings, workshops and interventions at venues including Barbican, London; Liverpool Biennial; Lisbon Experimenta Festival; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Tate Britain, London; Studio Voltaire, London and City of London Festival.. Polly was a member of artist and architect collective public works from 2005-2011 and is co-founder of London-based artist collective Avant Gardening. Commissions include Space Studios, London; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; the Delfina Foundation, London and Camden Arts Centre, London.

Limited Editions by Rosemarie Trockel

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:37:16 +0000

'In Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos she seems to blow art history apart...' - Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 October 2012

On the occasion of Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, the Serpentine is delighted to announce new Limited Editions by the artist.

Tarzan

Rosemarie Trockel
Tarzan 2013
Digital print on paper
60 x 70 cm
Edition of 37
£200 excl. VAT (£240 incl. VAT)

Jane

Rosemarie Trockel
Jane 2013
Digital print on paper
101.9 x 82.6 cm
Edition of 37
£300 excl. VAT (£360 incl. VAT)

VERY VERY

Rosemarie Trockel
VERY VERY (white) 2013
Digital print on paper
Each 40 x 40 cm
Edition of 37
£150 excl. VAT (£180 incl. VAT)

VERY VERY

Rosemarie Trockel
VERY VERY (green) 2013
Digital print on paper
Each 40 x 40 cm
Edition of 37
£150 excl. VAT (£180 incl. VAT)

Purchase VERY VERY (VAT is automatically applied)

*Standard rate of £48 post and packaging applies

Rosemarie Trockel (b.1952, Germany) has long been admired for her highly independent and influential practice. In A Cosmos she places her work in the company of others to explore varying disciplines.

For over thirty years, Trockel has resisted any identifiable stylistic signature. Installations involving animals, wool paintings, films, videos, ceramics, drawings and collages, plus a panoply of sculptures in myriad materials, are among the extraordinarily varied forms that comprise her work. However, certain constants underpin this diverse activity. These include contending notions of feminism, and the supposed antagonisms between amateur and professional creators, cultural celebrity and anonymity, and the fine (as opposed to the applied) arts and crafts.

Through her pioneering practice, she probes not only interrelations between people and animals, but also our impact, as a species, on the natural world.

For A Cosmos, Trockel has created three Limited Edition prints.

Derived from original portraits, the prints depict Dr. Jane Goodall (Tarzan), Julia Peyton-Jones (Jane) and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (VERY VERY).

Primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall (b.1943) is best known for her 45-year study of the social and familial interactions of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. It is the pioneering work of Jane Goodall and those naturalists and biologists like her who have undertaken such groundbreaking research, who have informed Trockel's creation of her 'cosmos'.

Jane and VERY VERY each depict the Serpentine Gallery co-directors. These images (originally taken when each subject was between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two) relate to the subversion and lightness of touch with which Trockel often treats the 'sitters' of her portraits. In Tarzan, Trockel has humorously superimposed an early copy of a Tarzan comic onto Jane Goodall's lap.

The subject of numerous solo shows, Trockel's works have been exhibited widely, including at New Museum, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris and Whitechapel Gallery, London. Trockel represented Germany at the 1999 Venice Biennale and participated in Documenta in 1997 and 2012.

For further information please contact:
Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7298 1511
editions@serpentinegallery.org

Saturday Seminar Rosemarie Trockel and Perspectives on A Cosmos Saturday 23 February 2013

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:17:11 +0000

3pm

Sackler Centre of Arts Education

Claire Feeley and Lucia Pietroiusti, Assistant Curators at the Serpentine Gallery discuss the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, the residency project and the Sound Series introduction to the exhibition by Dominic Eichler.

Free, no booking required

Nefeli Skarmea (born Athens, Greece) is based in Berlin and studies Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. A dancer with the companies Tanztheater Nuremberg, Stammer Productions/Colette Sadler and Alias/Guilherme Botelho, recent productions include Sideways Rain (2010-2013, touring). Upcoming projects include Martin Creed's Ballet Work No 1020. In 2010, Nefeli began to collaborate with choreographer Sergiu Matis and visual artist Ladislav Zajac on the production of Doom Room, a movement research project which brought her to residencies in LaborGras, Berlin and Kinitras Studio, Athens. In her curatorial research, Nefeli is interested in the relationships between movement, dance and the gallery space.

Polly Brannan, an artist and educator, is Education Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Since graduating with a BA Fine Art in 2003, Polly has produced exhibitions, talks, programmes, happenings, workshops and interventions at venues including Barbican, London; Liverpool Biennial; Lisbon Experimenta Festival; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Tate Britain, London; Studio Voltaire, London and City of London Festival.. Polly was a member of artist and architect collective public works from 2005-2011 and is co-founder of London-based artist collective Avant Gardening. Commissions include Space Studios, London; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; the Delfina Foundation, London and Camden Arts Centre, London.

Seminar Meet the Residents: presentation by Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan Wednesday 20 February 2013

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:30 +0000

2pm

Sackler Centre of Arts Education

The Studio residents Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan present and discuss their practices and the aims of their collaboration at the Serpentine Gallery.

Free, no booking required

Nefeli Skarmea (born Athens, Greece) is based in Berlin and studies Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. A dancer with the companies Tanztheater Nuremberg, Stammer Productions/Colette Sadler and Alias/Guilherme Botelho, recent productions include Sideways Rain (2010-2013, touring). Upcoming projects include Martin Creed's Ballet Work No 1020. In 2010, Nefeli began to collaborate with choreographer Sergiu Matis and visual artist Ladislav Zajac on the production of Doom Room, a movement research project which brought her to residencies in LaborGras, Berlin and Kinitras Studio, Athens. In her curatorial research, Nefeli is interested in the relationships between movement, dance and the gallery space.

Polly Brannan, an artist and educator, is Education Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Since graduating with a BA Fine Art in 2003, Polly has produced exhibitions, talks, programmes, happenings, workshops and interventions at venues including Barbican, London; Liverpool Biennial; Lisbon Experimenta Festival; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Tate Britain, London; Studio Voltaire, London and City of London Festival.. Polly was a member of artist and architect collective public works from 2005-2011 and is co-founder of London-based artist collective Avant Gardening. Commissions include Space Studios, London; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; the Delfina Foundation, London and Camden Arts Centre, London.

Jonas Mekas Holy Fools

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:18:57 +0000

'For me, Jonas is not just an artist, but a scribe and the keeper of memories' - agnès b.

On the occasion of the exhibition Jonas Mekas the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to present a new Portfolio of Limited Editions by the Artist

Jonas Mekas
Holy Fools 2012
Digital pigment print on 285gsm Hahnemuehle
FineArt pearl paper
Each Print: 35.5 x 27.9 cm
Set of 9 Prints
Edition of 50, signed and numbered

£995 excl. VAT for the set of 9 prints

Individual prints are available to purchase for £125 excl. VAT:

Bernadette Lafont
Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer
Salvador Dali
Ken Jacobs, Stan & Kate Brakhage
Taylor Mead
George Macuinas
Andy Warhol
John Lennon
Miles Davies

A film-maker, artist and poet, Jonas Mekas (b.1922, Lithuania) is one of the leading figures of avant-garde and independent cinema of the 20th century. His exhibition Jonas Mekas opening at the Serpentine on December 5, will present works from throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career.

Emigrating from Lithuania to New York in 1949, it was here Mekas became a central figure in the burgeoning arts community, alongside friends and collaborators such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and film-makers Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren.

Mekas brings a poet's sensibility to the diary film style that permeates his work. His vision is unique in its ability to capture personal moments of beauty, celebration and joy.

This especially commissioned Portfolio comprises nine images, each depicting friends of the artist performing for each other or the camera. Derived from the original 16mm film stock, this Portfolio captures Mekas's constant and playful chronicling of the world around him over the course of his career. Artists, musicians and dancers (including Miles Davis, John Lennon and Andy Warhol) are captured in unguarded and personal moments.

Mekas's work in turn has inspired many artists and film-makers to follow in his footsteps. Mike Figgis, Jim Jarmusch, Harmony Korine and Martin Scorsese, among many others, have cited Mekas as a key influence.

Mekas's films and archive material have been exhibited extensively throughout the world, including at Documenta 11; the Venice Biennale 2005; the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA PS1, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Baltic Art Center, Sweden; and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.

Purchase Holy Fools portfolio set of nine prints (VAT is automatically applied)

*Standard rate of £48 post and packaging applies

For futher information please contact:

Tom Harrisson, Editions Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7298 1511
editions@serpentinegallery.org