Serpentine Gallery in the Royal Park of Kensington Gardens, London

Serpentine Sackler Gallery and The Magazine restaurant,

opened 2013

Serpentine Gallery in the Royal Park of Kensington Gardens,

London

AN OPEN LANDSCAPE FOR ART AND IDEAS

‘The Serpentine is set apart in the art world by its boldness and innovation. It takes on big ideas and makes them happen.’

Michael R. Bloomberg

ABOUT THE SERPENTINE GALLERIES

The Serpentine Galleries are some of Britain's best loved galleries, attracting up to 1.2 million visitors in any year. Championing new ideas in contemporary art since it opened in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions of 2,876 artists over 45 years, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists, architects and designers 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 Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which opened to the public in September 2013. (Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am-6pm, the Galleries offer free admission throughout the year.)

Aerial view of the Serpentine and Serpentine Sackler Galleries in the Royal Gardens of Kensington Park.

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Serpentine Gallery

The Serpentine is set apart in the art world by its boldness and innovation. It takes on big ideas and

makes them happen against the odds.Michael R. Bloomberg

The Serpentine Pavilion 2014 Designed by Smiljan Radić

Serpentine Gallery and Serpentine Pavilion designed by Frida Escobedo(11 June – 7 October 2018) © 2018 Iwan Baan

“There is a deliberate imprecision in Escobedo’s work that comes

from her liking for rough materials and her belief in incompleteness.

She leaves gaps, literally and metaphorically, within which the

activities of the users might complete what she started. Her

architecture aims to be performative, something that itself

keeps changing and encourages others to react.”

The Observer, Rowan Moore

Event set at the Serpentine Gallery, 2018

“The Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park has turbo-charged the pavilion format, fashioning from this simple idea an

annual playground for architects who have yet to build in Britain. In doing this, it has, for each year this century, created a

remarkable and freely accessible forum for the discussion and direct experience of architecture.”

**** Financial Times, Eddie Heathcote, 2018

COS x Serpentine Park Nights, Victoria Sin, 2018 Goldman Sachs x Serpentine Women in Leadership, 2018

NINETEEN YEARS OF WORLD-CLASS ARCHITECTURE SERPENTINE PAVILIONS 2000 - 2017

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014Designed by Smiljan Radić

‘If, now it has become so established, the Serpentine can switch to introducing the unexpected –they will be doing London a huge favour.’Financial Times

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2015 designed by selgascano

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2017 designed by Frances Kéré

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011Designed by Peter Zumthor

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010Designed by Jean Nouvel

‘Transient glory: 10 years of the Serpentine’s star pavilions.’The Observer

NINETEEN YEARS OF WORLD-CLASS ARCHITECTURE SERPENTINE PAVILIONS 2000 - 2017

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013Designed by Sou Fujimoto

NINETEEN YEARS OF WORLD-CLASS ARCHITECTURE SERPENTINE PAVILIONS 2000 - 2017

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 designed by

Frank Gehry

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008Designed by Frank Gehry

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 Designed by Olafur Eliasson & Kjetil Thorsen

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002Designed by Toyo Ito with Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2001 Designed by Daniel Libeskind with Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2000Designed by Zaha Hadid

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond – Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003Designed by Oscar Niemeyer

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006

Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond – Arup

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA

SERPENTINE PAVILIONS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The purchase of the annual Serpentine Pavilion is a major component of the Serpentine’s fundraising programme. Its sale enables the Galleries to continue building on their ambitious architecture series and allows the buyer to advance the legacy of these unique structures.

The Serpentine Pavilion 2017 designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré will have a new permanent home in Malaysia. The pavilion was purchased by Kuala Lumpur-based Ilham Gallery who are seeking a location for the pavilion in Malaysia's Klang Valley – the region that surrounds and encompasses the city.

In 2016, Westbank supported and subsequently purchased the Pavilion, with the intention that it would serve a purpose beyond the one exhibition. Plans are currently underway that would see the Serpentine Pavilion on display for periods of time in New York and Toronto, before eventually finding its way to a permanent home in Vancouver.

In 2015, Second Home purchased the Serpentine’s 15th Pavilion designed by Spanish architectural firm selgascano. This structure will be installed in Los Angeles, providing visitors the opportunity to enjoy the colourful structure’s second life.

The 2014 Pavilion, designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, was purchased by art gallery Hauser & Wirth and is now in situ at Durslade Farm, Bruton, Somerset, where it is located next to an expansive garden designed by Dutch master Piet Oudolf.

Frank Gehry’s wooden structure, purchased in 2008, is now situated in Chateau-la-Coste, in Aix-en-Provence, France, and used to host outdoor concerts and events across the summer season.

In 2002, the Pavilion designed by Toyo Ito was reconstructed on site of the luxury hotel Le Beauvallon on Cote d’Azur, France.

Serpentine Pavilion 2002, designed by Toyo Ito with Arup, Le Beauvallon, Cote d’Azur

Serpentine Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry, Chateau-la-Coste, Aix-en-Provence

‘…The Serpentine Pavilion has acted as a blueprint for other projects around the world, sparking

commissions and competitions from Asia to North America.’

Financial Times

Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, designed by JIAKUN Architects

Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, designed by JIAKUN Architects

The wealth discrepancy for

London is 1:295, 1 is the wealth

of the poorest 10% and 295 of

the richest 10%. If the lowest

10% are represented by a height

of 1m, 10% are represented by

295m

Source: Trust for London

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