Contemporary art in a royal park
Championing new ideas in contemporary art since it opened in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions supporting a wide range of work by emerging practitioners and the most internationally recognized artists and architects of our time. Today, the Serpentine is two exhibition spaces situated on either side of The Serpentine lake in London’s Kensington Gardens: the Serpentine South, in a Grade II-listed former tea pavilion, and the Serpentine North, a 19th-century gunpowder store with an extension designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. In addition to rotating exhibitions of contemporary art—spanning painting, sculpture, photography and digital media—the Serpentine presents its annual Serpentine Pavilion during the summer months, which is the first and most ambitious architecture program of its kind in the world and has invited figures including Frida Escobedo, Jean Nouvel and Francis Kéré.
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