Serpentine Galleries

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

Lina Ghotmeh will design the Serpentine Pavilion 2023

Lebanon-born, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh is revealed as the architect to take on the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 commission in London

By Ellie Stathaki Published 23 November 22

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

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

Atelier E.B explores the history of window dressing in a new Serpentine show

By Laura Hawkins 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

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

Christo on his monumental floating sculpture for Serpentine Lake

By Elly Parsons Last updated 14 October 22

Serpentine Pavilion commission extended for the first time

Counterspace's anticipated Serpentine Pavillion design will now debut in summer 2021

By Elly Parsons Last updated 14 October 22

Drawing power: an exhibition of early artworks by Zaha Hadid

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 13 October 22

Counterspace's Sumayya Vally on her Serpentine Pavilion

Counterspace is the fast-emerging South African architectural practice commissioned to create the latest Serpentine Pavilion in London. Here, its founder Sumayya Vally takes artist and photographer Mikhael Subotzky on a whistle-stop tour of their adopted hometown, Johannesburg

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22