Serpentine Gallery Dialogue
Richard Hamilton
Tuesday 9 March
To coincide with his exhibition at the Gallery, the British artist gives a rare talk, discussing the work on view at the Serpentine and its relationship to his wider practice. more...
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
Melvin Moti
Sunday 7 March
Screenings at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill that focus on artists who experiment with the medium of cinema. more...
Saturday Talks
Nicola Lees, Public Programmes Curator
Saturday 6 March
This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...
Edgware Road: Discussion
Politics: Home and Away
23 February 2010
Artists Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour with psychoanalyst Jacqueline Rose and local student activists discuss how Middle East politics resonate in London. more...
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
William Raban and Amy Granat
Sunday 7 February
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists’ film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill. CINACT is named after American artist Henry Flynt’s 2007 cinema manifesto more...
Design Real Seminars
Markus Miessen
Saturday 6 February
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...
Design Real Seminars
Celine Condorelli
Saturday 30 January
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...
Design Real Seminars
Richard Rhys
Saturday 23 January
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...
Design Real Seminars
Alex Rich and Tim Parsons
Thursday 21 January
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...
Design Real Seminars
Emily King
Saturday 16 January
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...
Design Real Seminars
The Mobile Studio
Saturday 9 January
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...
Design Real Seminars
Michelle Cotton
Saturday 19 December
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...
Design Real Seminars
Alex Coles
Saturday 12 December
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
Juliette Blightman and Anthony Silvester
Sunday 6 December
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists’ film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill. more...
Design Real Seminars
Sarah Teasley
Saturday 5 December
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...
Design Real Seminars
Jonathan Olivares
Saturday 28 November
Every week the Serpentine hosts seminars by prominent designers more...
Serpentine Dialogues
Konstantin Grcic and Alice Rawsthorn
Thursday 26 November
Design Real is an insight into the mind of its curator, the award-winning German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic. more...
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting
Sunday 8 November
Clio Barnard is a filmmaker engaged in the relationship between documentary and fiction. She often constructs fictional images around verbatim audio and visa versa. more...
Park Nights
Poetry Marathon
Poetry Marathon
Saturday and Sunday
17–18 October
Poetry Marathon was a two-day poetry event featuring performances from leading poets, writers,
artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. more...
Serpentine Cinema: CINACT
Dara Birnbaum with Dara Birnbaum & Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation
Sunday 11 October
Acclaimed video using pirated television material, Birnbaum spliced together every transformation scene – from human to superhero - in an episode of the popular 70s TV show Wonder Woman. more...
Park Nights 2009:
New Music Action
Phill Niblock
Friday 9 October
8pm Performed musical pieces: 3 to 7 - 196 (December 1974, 23mins 40sec), David Gibson, cello, recorded samples; Robert Engelbrecht of Nelly Boyd, cello live This historic piece is the first where Phill Niblock precisely tuned the musician with tuning... more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009: The Colour of Pomegranates
Park Nights 2009: The Colour of Pomegranates
Friday 2 October
Originally refused an export licence, Paradjanov’s extraordinary film traces the life of eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Diedrich Diederichsen and Dorothea von Hantelmann
Friday 18 September
Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and postmodern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen discusses his recent text more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Edgware Road: Cinema, CAMP and no.w.here
Friday 11 September
Artists’ collectives CAMP and no.w.here convene an evening of film screenings, derived from their work on the Serpentine Gallery’s ongoing project Edgware Road. more...
Serpentine Cinema:
Ben Rivers and Javier Téllez
Sunday 6 September
London-based artist film-maker Ben Rivers presents his new film I Know Where I’m Going, 2009. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009: Mathilde Rosier: Play for a Stage of the Natural Theatre of Cruelty
Park Nights 2009: Mathilde Rosier: Play for a Stage of the Natural Theatre of Cruelty
Friday 4 September
French artist Mathilde Rosier, known for work that intertwines voice, text and melody, restages her performance previously shown at Silberkuppe, Berlin. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Darwin’s Nightmare
Friday 28 August
Sauper’s film examines the 1960s experiment that introduced Nile Perch fish into Lake Victoria, the largest African lake shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009: Alexis Marguerite Teplin:
Park Nights 2009: Alexis Marguerite Teplin:
The Party
Friday 25 September
A performance of The Party, a play by American artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin, with texts by Pablo Lafuente, Michael Ned Holte and Rachel Kushner. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
La Grande Bouffe
Friday 21 August
Four world-weary middle-aged men decide to gorge themselves to death in one final, orgiastic weekend of sex and gourmet food. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Giles Round and Mark Aerial Waller Kafe Pittoresk: l’expérience du monde visionnaire
Friday 14 August
Giles Round and Mark Aerial Waller present an evening that uses Barbet Schroeder’s counter-cultural film More, 1969, as a framework for a psychedelic presentation of music, sculpture and performance. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
New Music Action
with Tatsuya Yoshida and Charles Hayward
Friday 7 August
An evening of experimental music that responds to the architecture of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 more...
Serpentine Cinema:
Henry Flynt and
Owen Land
Sunday 2 August
American conceptual artist, filmmaker, philosopher and avantgarde musician Henry Flynt shows two short films more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Keren Cytter
Friday 31 July
Berlin-based artist Keren Cytter screens her new film The Tenth Dish, followed by a performance Artism or Autism? with Andrew Kerton. more...
Park Nights
Park Nights 2009:
Park Nights 2009:
Alexander Kluge
Friday 24 July
Film-maker Alexander Kluge presents an evening of short films and lectures that culminates in an 83-minute screening of his epic 570-minute film News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx–Eisenstein–
Das Kapital, based on the work of James Joyce and Sergei Eisenstein. more...
Kazuyo Sejima &
Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA Talk
Saturday 11 July
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa examine their groundbreaking design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009. more...
Serpentine Cinema:
Ellen Cantor and Noam Gonick
Sunday 5 July
American artist Ellen Cantor screens chapters from her new film Pinochet Porn, 2009, an epic soap opera about five children growing up during the Pinochet regime in Chile. more...
Jeff Koons Talk
Thursday 2 July
A rare talk by the influential American artist to coincide with the opening of Jeff Koons: Popeye Series at the Serpentine. more...
Serpentine Cinema:
Declan Clarke and Derek Jarman at The Gate Cinema
Sunday 24 May
The Serpentine Gallery launches a new series of monthly screenings of artists’ films in a cinema context. more...
Serpentine Gallery Dialogues
Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Tuesday 26 January
Internationally acclaimed French artist Christian Boltanski discusses his work with Serpentine Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist more...
Serpentine New Music Action: SHADAZZ at Café OTO
Thursday 7 May
Luke Fowler is part of the experimental music scene in Glasgow through his bands Rude Pravo and Lied Music, and his record label and multimedia platform SHADAZZ. He curates an evening of music this May more...
Education Private View and
Book Launch:
Experiment Marathon
Wednesday 1 April
During a special evening viewing of the exhibition Rebecca Warren, staff from the Serpentine Gallery will be on hand to discuss opportunities for involvement in the Education Programme. more...
Vikram and Aradhana Seth
in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Friday 20 February
Followed by a screening of DAM/AGE, 2002 A film with Arundhati Roy by Aradhana Seth, DVD, 50 mins 7 pm Tickets £5/£4 Location: Goethe-Institut 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH Vikram Seth is one of the most renowned... more...
The Otolith Group:
Communists Like Us
Wednesday 18 February
The Otolith Group creates art works, curates exhibitions, programmes events and designs platforms for discussion of contemporary artistic practice. more...
Indian Film Season
11 December 2008 -
21 February 2009
Screenings at The Gate and The Ritzy cinemas in London To complement India Highway, the Serpentine salutes Indian cinema with a season of screenings at the Gate and Ritzy cinemas in Notting Hill and Brixton. Special previews of new films... more...
Yog Raj Chitrakar:
Memory Drawing V
Nikhil Chopra
Wednesday 10 December –
Friday 12 December
Nikhil Chopra works at the boundaries between theatre, performance, live art, painting, photography and sculpture. He devises fictional characters that draw on India’s colonial history as well as his own personal history. He inhabits these characters in largely improvised performances... more...
Park Nights 2008:
Manifesto Marathon
Saturday 18 October -
Sunday 19 October
Manifesto Marathon, the third in the Serpentine Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathon events, took place in the closing weekend of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry more...
Park Nights 2008:
Celine Condorelli and Simon Popper
Friday 12 September
London-based artists Celine Condorelli and Simon Popper presented an evening of entertainment that drew on the French composer and pianist Erik Satie’s concept of ‘furnishing music’. more...
Park Nights 2008: 50 ft Open-Air Film
Bullitt
Saturday 16 August
Bullitt certificate 15 The classic 1968 thriller, starring Steve McQueen Rendezvous (a.k.a. C’etait un rendezvous) 1976, 9 mins Directed by Claude LeLouch In 1976, at the end of a film shoot, Claude LeLouch spontaneously filmed a mad dash through the... more...
Park Nights 2008: Thomas Adès and Frank Gehry
Saturday 19 July
Please click here to download the documents that related to this event Frank Gehry invited Britain’s foremost composer Thomas Adès to curate and perform in the opening concert of the 2008 Pavilion. A dazzling pianist, composer and conductor, Adès combined... more...
Richard Prince Conference:
Prince Prince
Friday 11 July
This conference, organised on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Prince: Continuation, brings together artists, curators and writers to examine its uniquely personal installation and literary collection from popular culture and pulp fiction. more...
Still from Falk, Amanda Beech 2006, courtesy MOT
Local Operations
23 May – 1 July 2007
Times vary Free, first-come, first-served The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine GalleryLocal Operations is a series of self-organised events, talks, screenings and workshops by writers, curators, theorists, independent groups, artist-led spaces and universities. All discussions will be... more...
