Serpentine Galleries

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 5 June 24

Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant

Visitor 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 1 June 24

Gerhard Richter unveils new sculpture at Serpentine South

Gerhard Richter revisits themes of pattern and repetition in ‘Strip-Tower’ at London’s Serpentine South

By Hannah Silver Published 24 April 24

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 invites everyone to the table

The Serpentine Pavilion 2023 launches to a design by Lina Ghotmeh, whose installation 'À table,' is an invitation to togetherness

By Ellie Stathaki Published 5 June 23

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 31 May 23

Steve McQueen to screen his harrowing film 'Grenfell' at London’s Serpentine

Acclaimed 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 3 April 23

Maharam and Serpentine Galleries launch second set of artist-designed wallpapers

By Sujata Burman Last updated 28 October 22

Serpentine Pavilion construction

By Daven Wu Last updated 28 October 22

Shopping spree: Serpentine Galleries’ summer houses on sale via The Modern House

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22

Frida Escobedo is the first solo woman since Zaha Hadid to design a Serpentine Pavilion

By Elly Parsons Last updated 28 October 22

Smiljan Radic to design the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 28 October 22

The making of Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Part garden folly, part mathematical model, the Tokyo architect's pavilion grows organically from the ground

By Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated 27 October 22

Wall of fame: Serpentine Galleries and Maharam deliver works of art by the roll

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 27 October 22

Lygia Pape retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery

By Apphia Michael Last updated 27 October 22

Diébédo Francis Kéré to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 25 October 22

Close quarters: ’DAS INSTITUT’ tightens their collaboration at Serpentine Gallery

By Wessie du Toit Last updated 25 October 22

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 21 October 22

Video: The Pavilion by Sanaa, Serpentine, London

By Harriet Lloyd Smith Last updated 21 October 22

Frida Escobedo discusses her design for the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 21 October 22

First Serpentine Pavilion outside the UK launches in Beijing

By Yoko Choy Last updated 20 October 22

Tree of thought: Francis Kéré reflects on his design for the Serpentine Pavilion

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 20 October 22

Big reveal: Serpentine Pavilion and four Summer House designs unveiled

By Sam Rogers Last updated 16 October 22

Architect Junya Ishigami's on this year's Serpentine Pavilion

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 16 October 22

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation launches the 2014 Future Generation Art Prize

By Simon Mills Last updated 14 October 22