Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, and artist Ólafur Elíasson, is a two-fold project that expands the idea of experimentation and display. It comprises an exhibition and a public event, which brings together leading international artists, writers and scientists to form a ‘laboratory of experiences’.

Participants in Experiment Marathon Reykjavik are Marina Abramović, David Adjaye, Einar Thorsteinn Ásgeirsson, Fia Backström, John Baldessari, Thomas Bayrle, John Brockman, Peter Coles, Tony Conrad, Carlos Cruz-Diez Attila Csörgö, Brian Eno, Ólafur Elíasson, Erró, Jimmie Durham, Ivana Franke, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Gabríela Fridriksdóttir, Yona Friedman, Aurélien Froment, Abhishek Hazra, Roger Hiorns, Hilmar B. Janusson, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Kristján Leósson, Karl Ægir Karlsson, Darri Lorenzen, Jonas Mekas, MM, Gustav Metzger, Matthew Ritchie, Pedro Reyes, Luc Steels, Tomas Saraceno, Carolee Schneemann, Thorsteinn I. Sigfússon, Katrín Siguoardóttir, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tris Vonna-Michell, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Emily Wardill, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Experiment Marathon Reykjavik is the centrepiece of the 2008 Reykjavik Arts Festival. The exhibition is organised by the Serpentine Gallery in association with the Reykjavik Art Museum.

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Also available as a unique hand-painted version
Acrylic and silkscreen on Somerset 255 gsm
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Maria Lassnig is best known for her bold and visceral oil paintings, but drawing is also important as a medium in its own right and central to her daily practice. Lassnig coined the phrase ‘body-awareness’ to describe how she depicts the invisible aspects of inner physical sensations. She frequently uses her own image as a means of exploring and representing the human experience and this Limited Edition Print is based on one of her many self-portraits.

Lassnig (b.1919) has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Vienna, Paris and New York. She represented Austria in the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980 and participated in Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta X in 1997. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1994; Musée national d’Art modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1995; Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, 1999; and Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2003, as well as many commercial gallery exhibitions. Her work was recently featured in the major American touring survey Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution organised by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007 and will be included in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 2008.

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Deborah Bullen
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A creative, one day course for young people aged 13 – 19. Inspired by the Maria Lassnig exhibition, work with artists to explore both figurative and abstract approaches to painting and drawing. This course is a perfect opportunity to make new work to add to exam project work and portfolios.

For more information and a registration details contact:
Eleanor Farrington
020 7298 1516
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion series, now entering its ninth year, is the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind, and is one of the most anticipated events in the international design calendar.
Frank Gehry said: “The Pavilion is designed as a wooden timber structure that acts as an urban street running from the park to the existing Gallery. Inside the Pavilion, glass canopies are hung from the wooden structure to protect the interior from wind and rain and provide for shade during sunny days. The Pavilion is much like an amphitheatre, designed to serve as a place for live events, music, performance, discussion and debate. As the visitor walks through the Pavilion they have access to terraced seating on both sides of the urban street. In addition to the terraced seating there are five elevated seating pods, which are accessed around the perimeter of the Pavilion. These pods serve as visual markers enclosing the street and can be used as stages, private viewing platforms and dining areas.”

Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, said: “Frank Gehry has designed an extraordinary Pavilion that opens up unexpected vistas to the Gallery, and the Park. It is a visionary scheme.”

The Pavilion will be the architect’s first built structure in England. He collaborated for the first time with his son Samuel Gehry.

Since 2001, Peter Rogers, Director of Stanhope, has donated his expertise to all aspects of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions and he continues to play a major role.

The Pavilion is a fully accessible public space in the Royal Park of Kensington Gardens, attracting up to 250,000 visitors every Summer and is accompanied by an ambitious programme of public talks and events.

Frank Gehry
Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved to Los Angeles in 1947. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954, and studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In subsequent years, Gehry has built an architectural career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. His work has earned him several of the most significant awards in the architectural field, including the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Wolf Prize in Art (Architecture), the Praemium Imperiale Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award, the National Medal of Arts, the Friedrich Kiesler Prize, the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal. Recent projects include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain; Maggie’s Centre, a cancer patient care centre in Dundee, Scotland; and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Some current projects include the Lou Ruvo Alzheimer Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Princeton Science Library in Princeton, New Jersey; the Hall Winery in Napa Valley, California; and the Puente de Vida Museo in Panama City, Panama.

Arup
Arup has worked on many of the Pavilions commissioned by Julia Peyton-Jones. Arup collaborated with Gehry Partners LLP to help evaluate the design strategies, choice of materials and structural typology of the 2008 Pavilion. Arup is also providing the engineering and specialist design on the project. The Arup team includes David Glover, Ed Clark with Cecil Balmond.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Commission
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission was conceived by Serpentine Gallery Director, Julia Peyton-Jones, in 2000. It is an ongoing programme of temporary structures by internationally acclaimed architects and individuals. It is unique worldwide and presents the work of an international architect or design team who, at the time of the Serpentine Gallery's invitation, has not completed a building in England. The Pavilion architects to date are: Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007; Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, with Arup, 2006; Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, Arup, 2005; MVRDV with Arup, 2004 (un-realised); Oscar Niemeyer, 2003; Toyo Ito with Arup, 2002; Daniel Libeskind with Arup, 2001; and Zaha Hadid, 2000. Each Pavilion is sited on the Gallery’s lawn for three months and the immediacy of the process - a maximum of six months from invitation to completion - provides a peerless model for commissioning architecture.
This year the project management of the Pavilion is being provided for the Serpentine Gallery by Jonathan Harper, Joanna Streeten and Tim Morse at Savant.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008:
Advisors:
Arup
Stanhope


Project Management:
Savant