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Saturday Seminars
Vanessa Carlos, Professor Anthony Pereira and Oscar Murillo
Saturday 4 February 2012

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Michael Asbury
Saturday 28 January 2012

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Dan Kidner
Saturday 21 January 2012

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Tanya Barson
14 January 2012

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Nick Thurston
17 December 2011

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Fatima Hellberg
10 December 2011

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement. more...

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Lygia Pape: Film Work Talk by Guy Brett
Thursday 12 January 2012

This event will explore Lygia Pape's diverse films as a little know and fascinating part of her broader artistic practice. more...

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Saturday Seminars
Pablo León de la Barra
7 January 2012

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. more...

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A Sotheby's Auction in Aid of the Serpentine Gallery's New Space:
Serpentine Sackler Gallery Opening 2012

Sotheby's and the Serpentine Gallery are delighted to announce that on Thursday 30th June, 2011, it will offer for sale over 40 works generously donated by some of the world's leading contemporary artists, in aid of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which will open in 2012. more...

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Gary Indiana Talk
Monday 27 June 2011

Influential American writer, essayist and journalist Gary Indiana will be reading from his latest publication To Whom It May Concern, produced in collaboration with the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). more...

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Mark Leckey
BigBoxStatueAction
Thursday 16 June 2011

Mark Leckey will present one in a series of four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction, designed specifically to suit the unique acoustic qualities of the Serpentine Gallery. more...

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Mark Leckey
BigBoxStatueAction
Thursday 9 June 2011

Mark Leckey will present one in a series of four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction, designed specifically to suit the unique acoustic qualities of the Serpentine Gallery. more...

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Mark Leckey in discussion with Matt Webb
Wednesday 8 June 2011

Matt Webb is CEO and Principal at BERG, a London-based design consultancy, working with companies to research and develop their technologies and strategy, primarily by finding opportunities in networks and physical things. Matt Webb will be talking to Mark Leckey about his Serpentine show, the cult status of smart objects and the multiple relationships we form with technology. more...

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Mark Leckey
BigBoxStatueAction
Thursday 2 June

Mark Leckey will present one in a series of four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction, designed specifically to suit the unique acoustic qualities of the Serpentine Gallery. more...

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Gilbert & George Book Launch & Signing
Art Titles 1969 – 2010
Saturday 28 May

"Art Titles" presents a complete catalogue of Gilbert & George's evocative titles in the format of a poetic index, spanning more than 40 years of exhibitions, pictures, sculptures, books, and other formats, that composes an accidental epic verse, simultaneously automatic and representative of their focus on worldly and spiritual matters. more...

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Mark Leckey
BigBoxStatueAction
Thursday 26 May

Mark Leckey will present one in a series of four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction, designed specifically to suit the unique acoustic qualities of the Serpentine Gallery. more...

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Saturday Talks
Joanna S. Walker
Thursday 30 April

Joanna S. Walker, Freelance Art Historian and Curator, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero<. more...

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Saturday Talks
Marcus Coates
23 April

In his newly commissioned work for the Serpentine Gallery, The Trip, Coates reflects on the intimate conversations he had with patients at St. John’s Hospice in London. Exploring the possibilities for dialogue between artists and those facing the end of life, Coates asked patients the question: 'What can I do for you?' The Trip documents exchanges between Coates and the late Alex H., who requested that the artist visit a remote small community in the Amazon on his behalf. more...

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Saturday Talks
Coline Milliard
16 April

Coline Milliard, Art Critic and Curator, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero. more...

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Nancy Spero: A Conference
15 April

Artists, academics and curators, including Jon Bird and Margaret Harrison, gather to discuss and celebrate the work of Nancy Spero and its relationship to feminism, literature, theatre and philosophy. more...

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Saturday Talks
Rachel Taylor
9 April

Rachel Taylor, Curator, discusses themes connected to the exhibition, Nancy Spero. more...

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In conversation:
Gilbert & George with Hans Ulrich Obrist
8 April

The artists Gilbert & George discuss their dazzling and epic new project, The Urethra Postcard Pictures, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director. more...

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Saturday Talks
Tamar Garb
2 April

Tamar Garb, 'Professor of History of Art, University College London', writer and curator, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero. more...

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Saturday Talks
Sophie O'Brien
26 March

Sophie O’Brien, Exhibition Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero. more...


Saturday Talks
Mike Cooter
19 March

Mike Cooter, artist, discusses his project The Snail, part of a series of commissioned walks by artists and architects, two of which are in association with The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s InTRANSIT festival. more...

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Saturday Talks
Katy Deepwell
5 March

Katy Deepwell, editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero. more...

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A conference about Philippe Parreno
Part 2
Thursday 10 February

This conference will explore the construction of reality and time in Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Presentations and discussions will concentrate on the inscription and scripting of space and time in visual arts, film, graphic novels, animation, music, theatre and literature. more...

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Saturday Talks
Chris Fite-Wassilak
22 January

Chris Fite-Wassilak, writer and curator based in London, discusses themes connected to the Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside-Down exhibition in Kensington Gardens. more...

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A conference about Philippe Parreno
Part 1: Construction of Character
Friday 21 January

This series of events will explore the construction of reality and time in Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Presentations and discussions will concentrate on the inscription and scripting of space and time in visual arts, film, graphic novels, animation, music, theatre and literature. more...

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Saturday Talks
Andrew Bonacina
15 January

This winter prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Philippe Parreno exhibition more...

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Saturday Talks
Tom Hunter in Conversation with Robert Elms
8 January

Writer and broadcaster Robert Elms discusses Tom Hunter’s film A Palace For Us with the artist. more...


Saturday Talks
Mobile Studio Architects
18 December

This winter prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside-Down. more...


Saturday Talks
Tom Hunter
11 December

Artist Tom Hunter discusses his film A Palace For Us, created in the context of the Skills Exchange Project, screened daily in the Sackler Centre of Arts Education from 8 December – 20 January. more...


Saturday Talks
Stephanie Dieckvoss
4 December

Stephanie Dieckvoss, Serpentine Gallery Exhibition Manager (Sculpture), discusses the four monumental works featured in the Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside-Down exhibition in Kensington Gardens, as well as introducing a wider context to Kapoor's mirrored works, which have been installed in many public sites all over the world. more...


Saturday Talks
Lucia Pietroiusti
27 November

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. Lucia Pietroiusti discusses themes connected to the Philippe Parreno exhibition, featuring a selection of Parreno's most recent films. more...



Saturday Talks
Claire Feeley
6 November

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public in conjunction with the Klara Liden exhibition. more...



Saturday Talks
Sam Thorne
30 October

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public in conjunction with the Klara Liden exhibition. more...



Saturday Talks
Vaari Claffey
23 October

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public in conunction with the Klara Lidén exhibition. more...



Saturday Talks
Cherry Smyth
9 October

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public in conjunction with the Klara Lidén exhibition. more...



Saturday Talk
Michael Bracewell
Saturday 28 August

This summer, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition and Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. more...





Saturday Talk
Alison Crawshaw
Saturday 14 August

This summer, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition and Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. more...



Saturday Talk
Beatrice Gibson, Will Holder and John Tilbury in conversation
Saturday 7 August

Beatrice Gibson, Will Holder and John Tilbury perform a close reading of a graphic score, exploring issues around movement, authorship and interpretation in relation to Gibson's new film. more...



Saturday Talk
Sophie O’Brien
Saturday 31 July

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. more...



Saturday Talk
George Clark
Saturday 24 July

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. more...



Saturday Talk
Gregorio Magnani
Saturday 17 July

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. more...



Jean Nouvel Talk
Monday 12 July

Jean Nouvel will discuss his groundbreaking design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010. In 1994 Nouvel established Ateliers Jean Nouvel. more...


Saturday Talks
Stuart Comer
Saturday 3 July

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. more...


Possible Exchanges: Image and Movement
Tuesday 29 June

Lamia Joreige and Rania Stephan, in conversation with members of the London-based XTalk: free language classes for migrant sex workers. more...



Saturday Talks
Mark Leckey
Saturday 26 June

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars free to the public. more...



Saturday Talks:
Fergal Stapleton

Saturday 12 June

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow. more...



Serpentine Late
Tim Davies, Thea Djordjadze & Andreas Reihse
Tuesday 8 June

An evening event in collaboration with Studio Voltaire, including a performance by artists Thea Djordjadze and Andreas Reihse in the Gallery, and a chance to see Tim Davies’ project in the Sackler Centre for Arts Education. more...


Saturday Talks:
Kathryn Rattee

Saturday 5 June

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow. more...


Saturday Talks:
Skye Sherwin
Saturday 29 May

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow. more...



Serpentine New Music Action
Phyllida Barlow and Friends

Thursday 27 May

An evening of experimental music that responds to the exhibition of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine. more...



Free Cinema School: Part 2
Open Editing Salons

Wednesday 26 May

Join the Edgware Road collaborative film with artists no.w.here and share ideas at these film and video editing workshops. more...



Possible Exchanges: Break Even Point
Bassam el Baroni

Monday 24 May

Co-founder of ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum), Egypt and co-curator of Manifesta 8 in Murcia Spain, Bassam el Baroni will present ongoing work related to the question of where we as cultural practitioners position ourselves. more...


Saturday Talks:
Olivier Garbay
Saturday 22 May

Prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow more...




Saturday Talks:
Sacha Craddock

Saturday 15 May

Prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow. more...



Edgware Road Cinema
Wednesday 12 May

Free Cinema School Wednesday Salons in May more...


Saturday Talks:
Vivian Rehberg

Saturday 8 May

This spring, prominent critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow. more...


Free Cinema:
Now and Then

Wednesday 5 May

Free Cinema School Wednesday Salons in May more...



Conference: Deschooling Society
29 & 30 April

Artists, scholars and critics have been invited to present critical ideas on collaborative and participatory art, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed. more...



Book Launch
Curating and the Educational Turn

Thursday 29 April

Open Editions is pleased to announce the publication of a new Occasional Table critical series title in collaboration with de Appel. more...




Saturday Talks
Sophie O’Brien, Exhibition Curator

Saturday 24 April

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...


Saturday Talks
Paul Noble, artist
Saturday 17 April

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...



Free Cinema School: Part 2
Young People's Course

12–16 April, 11–6 pm

A five-day cinema course with artists no.w.here for young people aged 13 to 19. Students will make films about the Edgware Road neighbourhood. more...



Saturday Performance
Will Holder and
The Post Trio

Saturday 10 April
3pm

A performance of Robert Ashley's work by The Post Trio, and introductory talk by Will Holder. more...





Chicago Boys:
while we were singing they were dreaming...

10 & 11 April
2–4pm Daily

Two days of music played by a 1970s revival band assembled by Hiwa K. Performances take place in cafés along the Edgware Road and are followed by a discussion about the 1970s in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. more...


Saturday Talks
Sally O'Reilly, writer

Saturday 3 April

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...




Saturday Talks
Leila Hasham, Assistant Curator

Saturday 27 March

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...



The Seventies: Research in Progress
Thursday 25 March

Hiwa K launches a project tracing musical and economic history. more...


Saturday Talks
Anthea Hamilton, artist

Saturday 20 March

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...


Seminar: Pattern in the 20th century
Tuesday 16 March

The Studio of Giles Round is a project developed from the artist’s practice and interests more...


Saturday Talks
Nairy Baghramian, artist

Saturday 13 March

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...



Serpentine Gallery Dialogue
Richard Hamilton

Tuesday 9 March

To coincide with his exhibition at the Gallery, the British artist gives a rare talk, discussing the work on view at the Serpentine and its relationship to his wider practice. more...


Saturday Talks
Nicola Lees, Public Programmes Curator

Saturday 6 March

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton. more...


Edgware Road: Discussion
Politics: Home and Away

23 February 2010

Artists Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour with psychoanalyst Jacqueline Rose and local student activists discuss how Middle East politics resonate in London. more...



Design Real Seminars
Markus Miessen

Saturday 6 February

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...



Design Real Seminars
Celine Condorelli
Saturday 30 January

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...



Design Real Seminars
Richard Rhys

Saturday 23 January

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...



Design Real Seminars
Alex Rich and Tim Parsons

Thursday 21 January

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...



Design Real Seminars
Emily King

Saturday 16 January

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars. more...



Design Real Seminars
The Mobile Studio

Saturday 9 January

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...



Design Real Seminars
Michelle Cotton

Saturday 19 December

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...



Design Real Seminars
Alex Coles

Saturday 12 December

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...



Design Real Seminars
Sarah Teasley

Saturday 5 December

This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real more...



Design Real Seminars
Jonathan Olivares
Saturday 28 November

Every week the Serpentine hosts seminars by prominent designers more...



Serpentine Dialogues
Konstantin Grcic and Alice Rawsthorn

Thursday 26 November

Design Real is an insight into the mind of its curator, the award-winning German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic. more...



Kazuyo Sejima &
Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA Talk

Saturday 11 July

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa examine their groundbreaking design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009. more...



Jeff Koons Talk
Thursday 2 July

A rare talk by the influential American artist to coincide with the opening of Jeff Koons: Popeye Series at the Serpentine. more...



Serpentine Gallery Dialogues
Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Tuesday 26 January

Internationally acclaimed French artist Christian Boltanski discusses his work with Serpentine Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist more...



Serpentine New Music Action: SHADAZZ at Café OTO
Thursday 7 May

Luke Fowler is part of the experimental music scene in Glasgow through his bands Rude Pravo and Lied Music, and his record label and multimedia platform SHADAZZ. He curates an evening of music this May more...



Education Private View and
Book Launch:
Experiment Marathon

Wednesday 1 April

During a special evening viewing of the exhibition Rebecca Warren, staff from the Serpentine Gallery will be on hand to discuss opportunities for involvement in the Education Programme. more...



Vikram and Aradhana Seth
in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Friday 20 February

Followed by a screening of DAM/AGE, 2002 A film with Arundhati Roy by Aradhana Seth, DVD, 50 mins 7 pm Tickets £5/£4 Location: Goethe-Institut 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH Vikram Seth is one of the most renowned... more...



The Otolith Group:
Communists Like Us

Wednesday 18 February

The Otolith Group creates art works, curates exhibitions, programmes events and designs platforms for discussion of contemporary artistic practice. more...







Indian Film Season
11 December 2008 -
21 February 2009

Screenings at The Gate and The Ritzy cinemas in London To complement India Highway, the Serpentine salutes Indian cinema with a season of screenings at the Gate and Ritzy cinemas in Notting Hill and Brixton. Special previews of new films... more...



Yog Raj Chitrakar:
Memory Drawing V
Nikhil Chopra
Wednesday 10 December –
Friday 12 December

Nikhil Chopra works at the boundaries between theatre, performance, live art, painting, photography and sculpture. He devises fictional characters that draw on India’s colonial history as well as his own personal history. He inhabits these characters in largely improvised performances... more...



Richard Prince Conference:
Prince Prince
Friday 11 July

This conference, organised on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Prince: Continuation, brings together artists, curators and writers to examine its uniquely personal installation and literary collection from popular culture and pulp fiction. more...

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Saturday Talks
Claire Pajaczkowska
12 March

Claire Pajaczkowska, Art Historian, discusses themes connected to the exhibition Nancy Spero more...

Local Operations
23 May – 1 July 2007

Times vary Free, first-come, first-served The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine GalleryLocal Operations is a series of self-organised events, talks, screenings and workshops by writers, curators, theorists, independent groups, artist-led spaces and universities. All discussions will be... more...