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Serpentine Pavilion 2026 architects announced – and they put the ‘serpent’ in the ‘Serpentine’Lanza atelier wins the Serpentine Pavilion 2026 commission; the Mexican studio creates the annual structure's newest iteration, titled 'a serpentine', and it features a curvilinear wall snaking across the site
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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A life’s work: Hans Ulrich Obrist on art, meaning and being drivenAs the curator, critic and artistic director of Serpentine Galleries publishes his memoir, ‘Life in Progress’, he tells us what gets him out of bed in the morning
By Hannah Silver Published
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s multiplayer experience at London’s Serpentine invites visitors to connect in the real worldDanielle Brathwaite-Shirley rethinks a typical art gallery visit with a new exhibition at Serpentine which encourages viewers to get off the screen
By Hannah Silver Published
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Guests dined on Bangladeshi-inspired cuisine at the Serpentine Summer Party 2025The party marked the 25th anniversary of the Serpentine Architecture Pavilion – and celebrated this year’s design by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her Dhaka-based firm
By Hannah Silver Published
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Lego and Serpentine celebrate World Play Day with a new pavilionLego and Serpentine have just unveiled their Play Pavilion; a colourful new structure in Kensington Gardens in London and a gesture that celebrates World Play Day (11 June)
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is ready to visit, ‘an exhibition you can use’The Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is ready for its public opening on 6 June; we toured the structure and spoke to its architect, Marina Tabassum
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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2025 Serpentine Pavilion: this year's architect, Marina Tabassum, explains her designThe 2025 Serpentine Pavilion design by Marina Tabassum is unveiled; the Bangladeshi architect talks to us about the commission, vision, and the notion of time
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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A first look at Serpentine Pavilion 2024: ‘It really is an archipelago’The Serpentine Pavilion 2024 opens its doors and we catch up with its architect, Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies, to talk about the design’s origins, concept and future travels
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendantVisitor experience workers at London’s Tate Modern, Serpentine, Barbican and V&A share what it’s like to watch people looking at art during a time of changing attention spans and rising vandalism
By Kyle MacNeill Published
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Serpentine Pavilion 2023 invites everyone to the tableThe Serpentine Pavilion 2023 launches to a design by Lina Ghotmeh, whose installation 'À table,' is an invitation to togetherness
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Tomás Saraceno’s spider-led show at Serpentine has legs, and lots of them‘Web(s) of Life’, the first major UK show by Tomás Saraceno, is a living, collaborative and multi-species call to climate action involving everything from dog-friendly sculptures to ‘spider diviners’ – but no phones allowed
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Steve McQueen to screen his harrowing film 'Grenfell' at London’s SerpentineAcclaimed film director and artist Steve McQueen will screen his film, Grenfell, at London’s Serpentine South gallery (7 April-10 May 2023), six years after the Grenfell Tower block blaze killed 72
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Lina Ghotmeh will design the Serpentine Pavilion 2023Lebanon-born, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh is revealed as the architect to take on the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 commission in London
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Maharam and Serpentine Galleries launch second set of artist-designed wallpapersBy Sujata Burman Last updated
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Serpentine Pavilion constructionBy Daven Wu Last updated
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Shopping spree: Serpentine Galleries’ summer houses on sale via The Modern HouseBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Frida Escobedo is the first solo woman since Zaha Hadid to design a Serpentine PavilionBy Elly Parsons Last updated
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Smiljan Radic to design the 2014 Serpentine Gallery PavilionBy Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Wall of fame: Serpentine Galleries and Maharam deliver works of art by the rollBy Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Lygia Pape retrospective at the Serpentine GalleryBy Apphia Michael Last updated
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Diébédo Francis Kéré to design the 2017 Serpentine PavilionBy Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Atelier E.B explores the history of window dressing in a new Serpentine showBy Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Close quarters: ’DAS INSTITUT’ tightens their collaboration at Serpentine GalleryBy Wessie du Toit Last updated
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Barbara Chase-Riboud at Serpentine: alternative monuments, parallel histories‘Infinite Folds’ at Serpentine North Gallery celebrates Barbara Chase-Riboud, the American artist, novelist and poet who has spent more than seven decades pondering history, memory, and the public monument
By MZ Adnan Last updated
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Video: The Pavilion by Sanaa, Serpentine, LondonBy Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated
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First Serpentine Pavilion outside the UK launches in BeijingBy Yoko Choy Last updated
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Tree of thought: Francis Kéré reflects on his design for the Serpentine PavilionBy Harriet Thorpe Last updated


