Prossimamente Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Serpentine Pavilion 2026, una serpentina, progettata da LANZA atelier. Rendering, vista aerea. © LANZA atelier

La Serpentine Gallery di Londra è lieta di annunciare che lo studio di architettura messicano LANZA atelier, fondato da Isabel Abascal e Alessandro Arienzo, è stato selezionato per progettare il Padiglione 2026. Intitolato "Serpentine" , il Padiglione di LANZA atelier sarà presentato al pubblico presso la Serpentine South il 6 giugno 2026, con Goldman Sachs a supporto del progetto annuale per il 12° anno consecutivo. Mentre il Padiglione raggiunge la sua 25a edizione, Serpentine celebrerà questo importante anniversario attraverso una partnership speciale con la Fondazione Zaha Hadid.

Nel corso della sua storia, il Serpentine Pavilion è diventato una vetrina molto attesa per i talenti emergenti. Nel corso degli anni, il Padiglione si è evoluto come piattaforma pubblica e artistica partecipativa per i programmi sperimentali, interdisciplinari, comunitari e formativi della Serpentine.

LANZA atelier, fondato nel 2015 da Isabel Abascal e Alessandro Arienzo, è uno studio di architettura con sede a Città del Messico. La loro pratica collaborativa affonda le sue radici nel quotidiano e nell'informale, con attenzione a come tecnologia, artigianato e intelligenza spaziale emergano in condizioni inaspettate. Il loro lavoro individua la bellezza nell'uso, nell'assemblaggio e nell'incontro, proponendo modalità per costruire quel dialogo in primo piano e quell'esperienza collettiva.

Flag Art Foundatin e Serpentine per un nuovo premio d'arte

 

Immagine: Sinistra: Serpentine. Foto: © Andy Stagg per Serpentine. Destra: The FLAG Art Foundation, 2025. Foto: © Steven Probert

A Londra la Serpentine e la FLAG Art Foundation sono onorate di annunciare la creazione di un nuovo premio dedicato al sostegno degli artisti di tutto il mondo. Nel corso del prossimo decennio, un totale di 1 milione di sterline verrà assegnato ogni due anni - 200.000 sterline a ciascun destinatario - a cinque artisti, offrendo un supporto senza pari in un momento cruciale della loro carriera. Si tratterà del più grande premio d'arte contemporanea del Regno Unito assegnato a un singolo artista. 

Ogni vincitore allestirà una mostra personale che debutterà alla Serpentine o alla FLAG Art Foundation e verrà poi ripensata per l'istituzione partner, creando un dialogo artistico continuo tra le due.

Questa partnership darà vita a una collaborazione decennale, assegnando cinque premi a cinque artisti eccezionali. Il primo artista a cui verrà assegnato il premio sarà selezionato nel 2026, con la mostra inaugurale prevista alla Serpentine di Londra nell'autunno del 2027, prima di trasferirsi alla FLAG di New York nella primavera del 2028. Ogni presentazione sarà accompagnata da un catalogo dedicato e da un dinamico programma live, sviluppato e prodotto in collaborazione da entrambe le istituzioni.

Questa partnership a lungo termine riflette l'impegno condiviso tra FLAG e Serpentine nel sostenere la sperimentazione artistica e lo scambio transfrontaliero. Il Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize sottolinea la fiducia di entrambe le organizzazioni nel potere della collaborazione per plasmare il futuro dell'arte contemporanea.

Gli artisti saranno presi in considerazione per il premio attraverso una procedura di candidatura, con una giuria a rotazione composta da curatori, storici dell'arte e artisti di fama internazionale che selezionerà i vincitori finali. I dettagli sulla giuria saranno annunciati a tempo debito.

Il premio intende offrire agli artisti, in una fase significativa della loro carriera, la libertà e il tempo per sviluppare un nuovo corpus di opere, esporle ed esplorare nuove idee. 

Bettina Korek, CEO di Serpentine, ha dichiarato: "Questa partnership approfondisce la nostra missione comune di creare nuove connessioni tra artisti e pubblico, alimentando al contempo il dialogo transatlantico. L'alleanza offre agli artisti di tutto il mondo lo spazio e il supporto per espandere la loro pratica, ispirati dal duraturo spirito di sperimentazione di Zaha Hadid. Non potremmo essere più lieti di collaborare con la FLAG Art Foundation a questa visione condivisa per il futuro".
    
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Direttore Artistico, ha dichiarato: "Siamo lieti di lanciare il più grande premio d'arte contemporanea del Regno Unito. Ciò che rende questo premio così significativo è la sua attenzione rivolta ad artisti che non hanno ancora ricevuto la visibilità o il riconoscimento che meritano. Questo è da tempo al centro del programma di Serpentine: dalla presentazione delle prime mostre monografiche del Regno Unito per artisti emergenti alla promozione di voci trascurate il cui contributo merita maggiore riconoscimento. Serpentine + FLAG Art Foundation fa 11, e non vediamo l'ora di iniziare questa nuova avventura".

Glenn Fuhrman, fondatore della FLAG Art Foundation, ha dichiarato: "Questa partnership segna l'impegno più significativo di FLAG nei confronti degli artisti al di fuori degli Stati Uniti e non potremmo essere più felici di farlo con Serpentine. Collaborando con Serpentine per creare questo premio, riaffermiamo il nostro impegno istituzionale nel sostenere gli artisti contemporanei e nel continuare a offrire loro nuove opportunità di condividere il loro lavoro con gli amanti dell'arte di tutto il mondo. Non vediamo l'ora di svelare il prossimo programma di mostre e annunciare la giuria nei prossimi mesi".

Gli artisti selezionati per il premio saranno di qualsiasi generazione ed età, provenienti da tutte le aree geografiche, esporranno professionalmente da meno di 10 anni e lavoreranno attivamente per accrescere e sostenere un solido record di mostre in musei e gallerie internazionali, tra cui rappresentanze in gallerie, riconoscimenti, premi, recensioni di critici d'arte, borse di studio e pubblicazioni. 

Negli ultimi sei anni, il Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, co-organizzato con The Contemporary Austin, ha visto FLAG sostenere diversi artisti con finanziamenti diretti, insieme a una mostra e alla relativa pubblicazione. Tra gli artisti figurano Nicole Eisenman (2020), Tarek Atoui (2022), Lubaina Himid (2024) e Sable Elyse Smith (2026). 

Chicago a Londra

 Image: Judy Chicago: Revelations, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 

Photo: Jo Underhill. Courtesy Judy Chicago and Serpentine

A Londra presso la Serpentine è in corso la mostra "Revelations" dedicata all'artista pionieristica, autrice, educatrice, storica culturale e femminista Judy Chicago (nata nel 1939, Chicago, USA). 

Chicago divenne famosa alla fine degli anni '60 quando sfidò il panorama del mondo dell'arte dominato dagli uomini realizzando opere che fossero coraggiosamente dal punto di vista di una donna. Artista poliedrico, il lavoro di Chicago è definito da un impegno per l'artigianato e la sperimentazione, sia attraverso la scelta del soggetto che per il metodo e i materiali che utilizza.

Nel corso dei suoi sessant’anni di carriera, Chicago ha contestato l’assenza e la cancellazione delle donne nel canone culturale occidentale, sviluppando un linguaggio visivo distintivo che dà visibilità alle loro esperienze. A questo scopo, Chicago ha prodotto progetti individuali e collaborativi che affrontavano i temi della nascita e della creazione, il costrutto sociale della mascolinità, la sua identità ebraica, le nozioni di potere e impotenza, l’estinzione ed esprimeva la sua preoccupazione di lunga data per la giustizia climatica.

 Image: Judy Chicago: Revelations, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 

Photo: Jo Underhill. Courtesy Judy Chicago and Serpentine

Judy Chicago: Revelations traccia l'intero arco della carriera di Chicago con un focus specifico sul disegno, evidenziando opere raramente viste. Diversi elementi multimediali coinvolgenti, tra cui un'app AR, una cabina di registrazione video e altri componenti audiovisivi, distinguono questo spettacolo dalle precedenti indagini sul lavoro di Chicago. Con quaderni di schizzi, film e diapositive mai visti prima, interviste video ai partecipanti di The Dinner Party (1974-79), registrazioni audio e una visita guidata a The Dinner Party realizzata dalla stessa Chicago, questo nuovo approccio all'esposizione del lavoro di Chicago rende il la presenza dell'artista si è fatta sentire in tutta la galleria.

La mostra prende il nome da un manoscritto miniato sconosciuto di Chicago, scritto all'inizio degli anni '70, che sarà pubblicato per la prima volta in concomitanza con la mostra da Serpentine e Thames & Hudson. Intitolato Revelations, questo lavoro visionario è una rivisitazione radicale della storia umana che recupera alcune delle storie di donne che la società ha cercato di cancellare e che Chicago non avrebbe mai immaginato sarebbe stata pubblicata durante la sua vita. Estratti audio del libro possono essere ascoltati in ciascuna delle gallerie attraverso un'audioguida di accompagnamento, creando senza soluzione di continuità un collegamento tra arte visiva e parola scritta che ha occupato la pratica dell'artista sin dagli anni '70.

 Image: Judy Chicago: Revelations, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 

Photo: Jo Underhill. Courtesy Judy Chicago and Serpentine

Mass Studies per il Pavilion estivo della Serpentine

 Serpentine Pavilion 2024 progettato da Minsuk Cho, Mass Studies. Render del progetto, vista esterna.

 Foto © Studi di massa, per gentile concessione: Serpentine 

La Serpentine di Londra ha annunciato che l'architetto coreano Minsuk Cho, con sede a Seoul, e il suo studio Mass Studies sono stati selezionati per progettare il 23° Padiglione. Il padiglione dei Mass Studies sarà inaugurato a Serpentine South il 5 giugno 2024 con Goldman Sachs che sostiene il progetto annuale per il decimo anno consecutivo.

Serpentine Pavilion 2024 progettato da Minsuk Cho, Mass Studies. Render del progetto, vista esterna. 

Foto © Studi di massa, per gentile concessione: Serpentine

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This innovative commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha Hadid, has presented the first completed UK structures by some of the most significant names and emerging talents in international architecture. The Pavilion has evolved over the years as a participatory public and artistic platform for the Serpentine’s pioneering, interdisciplinary, community and education programmes.

Titled Archipelagic Void, the Pavilion will consist of five “islands” designed around an open space. Mass Studies envisions a void defined by a series of smaller, adaptable structures located at its periphery, intertwining with the park’s natural ecology and its temporal conditions. These structures will form a constellation that shapes a singular central circular void.

 

The central void will act like the madang, a small courtyard found in old Korean houses, accommodating rich spatial narratives ranging from individual everyday activities to large collective events.

Around the void, each structure of this multifaceted Pavilion will be envisioned as a “content machine” each individually named and serving a different purpose. The Gallery will act as the welcoming main entry, extending Serpentine South’s curatorial activities outside, while the Auditorium will serve as a gathering area. A small Library will feature to the north of the Pavilion, offering a moment of pause. The Tea House will honour the Serpentine South's historical role as a tea pavilion. The Play Tower, the most open space, will feature a netted structure.

 

Assembled, the parts become a montage of ten spaces surrounding the void: five distinct covered spaces and five open, in-between areas, each acting as a threshold that seamlessly integrates with the surrounding park and Pavilion activities. Highlighted by varying natural light conditions, these flexible spaces will welcome people and host live programmes.

Minsuk Cho, Architect, Mass Studies, said: “We are honoured and grateful to be chosen as the next Serpentine Pavilion Architect. We began by asking what can be uncovered and added to the Serpentine site, which has already explored over 20 iterations at the centre of the lawn, from a roster of great architects and artists. To approach this new chapter differently, instead of viewing it as a carte blanche, we embraced the challenge of considering the many existing peripheral elements while exploring the centre as a void. It also begins to address the history of the Serpentine Pavilion. By inverting the centre as a void, we shift our architectural focus away from the built centre of the past, facilitating new possibilities and narratives.”

 

Bettina Korek, Chief Executive, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, said: “We are honoured to present Minsuk Cho’s first structure on UK soil here at Serpentine as our next architecture Pavilion, opening this summer. Titled “Archipelagic Void,” Cho’s Pavilion is modular by nature, composed of individual structures that serve specific functions, yet which also come together as a continuous unit. Serpentine is deeply grateful to our loyal partners and supporters for enabling Minsuk Cho’s multifaceted concept to become a reality, and for sustaining the Pavilion each year as a model for exploring innovative ideas in architecture.”

 

Throughout the Summer and until October, the Serpentine Pavilion 2024 will become a platform for Serpentine’s live and events programme. It will feature Park Nights, the interdisciplinary platform for live encounters in music, poetry, spoken words, and dance, running alongside Serpentine’s Technology, Ecology including the 2024 Infinite Ecologies Marathon, and Civic & Education activations.

This year’s Pavilion selection was made by Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek, Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of Construction and Special Projects Julie Burnell, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Public Practice Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Exhibitions Curator Alexa Chow, together with advisors Sou Fujimoto and David Glover.

The Pavilion is supported by Goldman Sachs.

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

 

Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, as a critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production, intensely over-populated urban conditions, and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society. Amid the many frictions defining spatial conditions in the twenty-first century, namely past vs. future, local vs. global, utopia vs. reality, and individual vs. collective, Mass Studies focuses on the operative complexity of these multiple conditions instead of striving for a singular, unified perspective. For each architectural project, which exists across a wide range of scales, Mass Studies explores issues such as spatial systems, building materials/techniques, and typological divergences to foster a vision that allows the discovery of new socio-cultural potential.

 

Minsuk Cho was born in Seoul and graduated from the Architectural Engineering Department of Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) and the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University (New York, USA). After working in various firms, including OMA Rotterdam, he established Cho Slade Architecture in 1998 in New York City with partner James Slade. In 2003, he returned to Korea to open his own firm, Mass Studies.

 

Cho has garnered numerous accolades over the course of his career. Notable among these achievements are his first prize win in the 1994 Shinkenchiku International Residential Architecture Competition and the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Award in 2000 for his contributions at Cho Slade Architecture. He also received two U.S. Progressive Architecture Awards (Citations) in 1999 and 2003. His work with Mass Studies earned two nominations for the International Highrise Award (Deutsches Architekturmuseum-DAM), once as a finalist in 2008 for Boutique Monaco and again in 2010 for S-Trenue. The Korea Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai was honoured with the Silver Award in the “Pavilion Design” category from the Bureau of International Expositions, accompanied by a Presidential Citation from the Korean government. Cho co-curated the exhibition “Named Design” at the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, in collaboration with Anthony Fontenot under the direction of Seung H-Sang and Ai Weiwei. In June 2014, Minsuk Cho received the prestigious Golden Lion Award for the Best National Pavilion while serving as the commissioner and co-curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. Cho was recognised further by receiving the Hwagwan Medal Order of Cultural Merit from the Korean government.

 

Mass Studies works have been presented in various exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004 and 2010, the Vitra Museum travelling exhibition “Open House” from 2006 to 2008, and a solo show titled "Before/After: Mass Studies Does Architecture" at the PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul in 2014. Mass Studies’ architectural designs and presentations are part of the collections and archives of the MoMA (New York), DAM (Frankfurt), Art Institute Chicago, and the Mokchon Architecture Archive (Seoul). Additionally, the 5^th edition of Kenneth Frampton’s canonical “Modern Architecture: A Critical History” (2020, Thames & Hudson) highlights Cho and his work in the added South Korea chapter. Minsuk Cho is also an active lecturer and speaker, participating in symposia worldwide.

 

Representative works include the Pixel House, Missing Matrix, Bundle Matrix, Shanghai Expo 2010: Korea Pavilion, Daum Space.1, Tea Stone/Innisfree, Southcape, Dome-ino, the Daejeon University Residential College, Space K Seoul Museum, Pace Gallery Seoul, Vinegar Park: Choru and the Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple. Current in-progress projects include the new Seoul Film Center (Montage 4:5), the Danginri Cultural Space (Danginri Podium and Promenade), the Yang-dong District Main Street (Sowol Forest), and the Yeonhui Public Housing Complex. Recently completed projects include the restoration and extension of the French Embassy in Korea, the renovation and extension of the Osulloc Tea Museum, and the Osulloc Green Tea Factory.

 

Additional reference:

 

The Archipelago Conversations, Édouard Glissant, Hans Ulrich Obrist, iisolarii, 2022 (Sixth Edition) inspiring Minsuk Cho: “The purpose of architecture has always been to show, to claim space, and the monument is proof of that. Perhaps in our world today, our archipelagic world of relation and rhizomes, the basis and the role of architecture will no longer be to show the monument, but to show the invisible. The aesthetic of the invisible brings us back to the aesthetic of the void and the infinite, which need not produce anguish, but hope. That could be the new ambition of architecture.”

 

Serpentine Pavilion

 

This pioneering commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha Hadid, has presented the first UK structures by some of the biggest names in international architecture. The Pavilion is realised with the support of technical advisors AECOM. In recent years it has grown into a highly anticipated showcase for emerging talents, from Sumayya Vally, Counterspace (South Africa), the youngest architect to be commissioned, and Frida Escobedo (Mexico), to Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso) and Bjarke Ingels (Denmark). In 2022, Black Chapel was designed by Theaster Gates (US) and in 2023 À table was designed by Lina Ghotmeh (France and Lebanon).

 

In 2021, the Pavilion programme evolved beyond its physical location for the first time and expanded with a series of Fragments placed across London. It also saw the launch of Support Structures for Support Structures, a fellowship programme initiated by Serpentine that supports up to ten artists and collectives working at the intersection of art, spatial politics, and community practice.

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About Serpentine

 

Building new connections between artists and society, Serpentine presents pioneering contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events with a legacy that stretches back over half a century, from a wide range of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists, writers, scientists, thinkers, and cultural thought leaders of our time.

 

Based in London’s Kensington Gardens, across two sites, Serpentine North and Serpentine South, Serpentine features a year-round, free programme of exhibitions, architectural showcases, education, live events and technological activations, in the park and beyond the gallery walls.

 

The public art programme has emerged as a central strand of Serpentine’s work with artists who are constantly expanding the possibilities of what public art could be today. Major presentations include a collection of Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculptures (1987), Anish Kapoor’s Turning the World Upside Down (2010), Lee Ufan’s Relatum – Stage (2018-19), Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba in the Serpentine Lake (2018), I LOVE YOU EARTH by Yoko Ono (2021), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster In remembrance of the coming alien (Alienor), (2022), and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker (2022 - ongoing).

 

Proud to maintain free access for all visitors, thanks to its unique location, Serpentine also reaches an exceptionally broad audience and maintains a profound connection with its local community.

 

Andy Wharol alla Tate Modern e Cao Fei alla Serpentine Gallery

Eccovi un'altro proposta video con il tour su Andy Wharol dalla Tate Modern che in questi giorni ha una bella mostra nei suoi spazi.

Sempre da Londra arriva questo video della Serpentine Gallery su Cao Fei un artista e regista multimediale con sede a Pechino. Video, media digitali, fotografia e oggetti svolgono tutti un ruolo nel coinvolgimento dell'artista con un'era di rapido sviluppo tecnologico. Questa mostra riunisce opere nuove ed esistenti in un'installazione immersiva, site specific, ampliando i temi di automazione, virtualità e tecnologia su cui Cao Fei attinge continuamente.

50 anni di Serpentine

Serpentine Gallery di Londra, inizia a celebrare i suo 50 anni di attività aggiornando il suo staff con la nomina del nuovo direttore Bettina Korek, che viene dalla direzione di Frieze Los Angeles.

Aperta nel 1970 la Serpentine è passata da una funzione di semplice spazio espositivo a luogo di promozione attivazione creativa, raddoppiando i suoi spazi e proponendosi in una visone internazionale, spostandosi anche sul fronte dell’architettura col successo del Serpentine Pavillion, il primo nel 2000 fu realizzato da Zaha Hadid.

Il programma per il 2020 vedrà in primavera le mostre dello studio Forma Fantasma e  dell’artista cinese Cao Fei.  

L’artista non è presente… Marina Abramović appare alla Serpentine Gallery di Londra.

Marina Abramović dopo quattro anni ritorna alla Serpentine di Londra con una rapida presenza, quasi sviluppo del famoso “The artist is present” che si svolse al Moma alcuni anni fa rendendola globalmente famosa.

In questo caso l’uso della tecnologia trasforma il concetto di realtà e di contatto, il progetto è stato realizzato con la collaborazione dello studio Tin Drum, che lavora da anni con la realtà aumentata.

Per una settimana, dal 19 al 24 Febbraio, la Serpentine Galleries ospiterà l’immagine virtuale e performativa di Marina Abramović, grazie a dei visori digitali. Un’esperienza che durerà 19 minuti, per cui bisognerà prenotarsi prima, eccovi il link del sito dove poterlo fare.

 Questo uso teatrale della tecnologia mi lascia un poco perplesso, personalmente non amo questo approccio che mi lascia infastidito. Fino ad ora le diverse esperienze che ho provato sono state deludenti. L’idea di essere “staccato” dalla realtà e immerso in finzioni (anche artistiche) non mi dice nulla, anzi ci vedo una spettacolarizzazione sempre più inutile e poco significativa. Ma chissà forse in questo caso sarà più stimolante? Se qualcuno la prova mi scriva per farmi sapere le sue impressioni, grazie

Serpentine Galleries e la Marathon

Come da tradizione di questi ultimi anni, nei giorni di Frieze, ecco il programma della solita Maratona della Serpentine

Saturday 18 October, 12pm - 10pm

Sunday 19 October, 12pm - 8pm

Tickets £20/£15 conc. (two day) or £15/£10 conc. (one day), available on Ticketweb here and from the Serpentine Galleries, +44(0)207 402 6075. 

On the weekend of 18 and 19 October – during the Frieze Art Fair – Serpentine Galleries presents the Extinction Marathon, the ninth in the Galleries' yearly Marathon series. Artists, writers, scientists, film-makers, choreographers, theorists and musicians explore the complex and timely topic of extinction through talks, conversations, performances and screenings.

Felt across the humanities and the sciences alike, the spectre of extinction looms over the ways in which we understand our being in the world today. In response, artists and writers embed these concerns into the products of their endeavours. Environmental degradation, genocide, atomic weapons, threats to small, isolated communities, threats to languages, global warming economics and extinction, catastrophes in nature, life wiped out by disease and hunger – the constellation of topics around extinction is ever-expansive and as urgent now as ever before. 

Both a reflexive overview and a call to action, the two-day event invites us to respond, together, to a changing world, addressing visions of the future in all their scientific, artistic and literary ramifications.

Participants include artist and poet Etel Adnan; artist Maria Thereza Alves; artistKorakrit Arunanondchai; artist Ed Atkins; conservationist Jonathan Baillie; architectAlessandro Bava; writer and media activist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi; designer Irma Boom; Whole Earth Catalogue editor Stewart Brand; artist James Bridle; EDGE Foundation founder John Brockman; philosopher Federico Campagna; artist Heman Chong; artistYve Laris Cohen; philosopher Helena Cronin; artist Jesse Darling; artist Benedict Drew; artist and poet Jimmie Durham; mathematician Marcus du Sautoy; palaeontologist Richard Fortey; agriculturalist Cary Fowler; artists Gilbert & George; cultural critic and queer theorist Jack Halberstam; artist and designer Marguerite Humeau; choreographer Mette Ingvartsen; environmental social scientist Jennifer Jacquet; biologist and author Steve Jones; speculative designer Lisa Ma; biologistGeorgina Mace; physicist Chiara Marletto; artist and activist Gustav Metzger; artistKatja Novitskova; artist Trevor Paglen; artist Cornelia Parker; choreographer Hetain Patel; anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli; evolutionary ornithologist Richard Prum; design writer Alice Rawsthorn; astrophysicist Martin Rees; Operational Research professor Jonathan Rosenhead; artist Jeremy Shaw; filmmaker Eyal Sivan; artistShimabuku; writer Adam Thirlwell; environmental lawyer James Thornton; musician and sound recordist Chris Watson; artist Cerith Wyn Evans and artist Anna Zett, as well as contributions by artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria; sociologist Zygmunt Bauman; artist Paul Chan; artist Tacita Dean; artist Olafur Eliasson; artist Anna Galkina; writer William Gibson; author Daniel Kehlmann; poet Joanne Kyger; directorSandy McLeod; concrete poet Franz Mon; philosopher Timothy Morton; artist Yoko Ono; artist and poet Heather Phillipson; filmmaker Laura Poitras and designer David Rudnick.

The two-day event, which comprises of a non-stop series of presentations in The Magazine at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, will be live-streamed by thespace.org, which partners with Serpentine for the Extinction Marathon in 2014. The Space will also host two new digital commissions by Gustav Metzger and Ed Atkins and an online platform, extinct.ly, which gathers data about global resource depletion, conflict zones and climate change scenarios  as well as artists’ projects and activists’ calls to action, including works by Sophia Al-Maria; Kari Altmann; David Blandy; Benjamin Bratton;Femke Herregraven; Maurizio Lazzarato; Lisa Ma; Timothy Morton; Julian Oliver;Tobias Revell; UBERMORGEN and Anna Zett.

While The Magazine at the Sackler Gallery will present on-stage participations, talks, screenings and performances, the Serpentine Pavilion 2014, designed by Smiljan Radić, presents an installation by Katja Novitskova. 

The Extinction Marathon is programmed in collaboration with artist Gustav Metzger, whose work – including his Serpentine Gallery exhibition Decades 1959 – 2009 – addresses extinction and climate change.

A full schedule of the Extinction Marathonwill be published in early October. 

Duplicazione contemporanea - Un nuovo edificio per la Serpentine Gallery.

Fra pochi giorni, il 28 Settembre, la Serpentine di Londra raddoppia i suoi spazi con l’apertura del nuovo edificio della Sackler Gallery Serpentine, ristrutturato dal Premio Pritzker Architecture Zaha Hadid. Questo nuovo luogo espositivo, una piccola palazzina neoclassica in Kensington Gardens, amplia gli spazi della Serpentine con oltre novecento metri quadrati, affiancati anche da un bel bar e un ristorante. Si trova a pochi minuti a nord dall’edificio della storca Serpentine. Il nome è stato scelto in omaggio ai sostenitori del progetto Mortimer e Theresa Sackler.

L’intervento di ristrutturazione si integra abbastanza bene nonostante la forte differenza stilistica, una grande “tenda” bianca che si avvolge sull’antica struttura ottocentesca, in un fresco abbraccio cromatico.

Per l’occasione due mostre in antitesi temporale, la novantenne Marisa Merz e il giovanissimo Adrián Villar Rojas, a cui si aggiunge un intervento audio sul Serpentine Bridge, opera dell’autrice messicana Valeria Luiselli, la prima di una serie di passeggiate dedicata allo spazio fra la Serpentine e la Sackler.

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The new Serpentine

Aprirà il 28 Settembre la nuova struttura della Serpentine Gallery, ristrutturata sul progetto di Zaha Hadid, con una mostra dedicata all'artista argentino Adrian Villar Rojas.

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery gives new life to The Magazine, a former 1805 gunpowder store, located five minutes walk from the Serpentine Gallery on the north side of the Serpentine Bridge. With 900 square metres of new gallery, restaurant and social space, the Serpentine's second space in Kensington Gardens will be a new cultural destination in the heart of London. From this autumn, the Serpentine will present its unrivalled programme of exhibitions and events across both Galleries and into the Park. 

The new Gallery is named after Dr Mortimer and Dame Theresa Sackler, whose Foundation has made the project possible through the largest single gift received by the Serpentine Gallery in its 43-year history. Major funding has also been awarded by Bloomberg, long term supporters of the Serpentine as well as sponsors of the opening exhibition. 

In 2010 the Serpentine Gallery won the tender from The Royal Parks to bring the Grade II* listed building into public use for the first time in its 208-year history. The Serpentine Gallery has restored the building to an excellent standard, in partnership with The Royal Parks, renovating and extending it to designs by Zaha Hadid. A light and transparent extension complements rather than competes with the neo-classical architecture of the original building. It is the Zaha Hadid Architects' first permanent structure in central London and continues a relationship between the Gallery and the architect, which began with the inaugural Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Commission in 2000. The landscape around the new building will be designed and planted by the world-renowned landscape artist Arabella Lennox-Boyd. 

The opening exhibition in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery is the first UK exhibition by the young Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, who is on the brink of gaining international renown for his dramatic, large-scale sculptural works. At the same time, in the Serpentine Gallery, there will be a major retrospective by Italian sculptor Marisa Merz, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Venice Biennale. A redesigned website will feature the inaugural Digital Commission, while the first annual Bridge Commission explores the route between the two galleries with a series of short stories by twelve internationally acclaimed writers. Each story is timed to last as long as it takes to walk from the Serpentine Gallery to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. The Serpentine's expanded presence in Kensington Gardens will be illustrated by a specially commissioned map by the artist Michael Craig-Martin. 

Responding to its unique location in The Royal Park of Kensington Gardens, an expanded programme of eight exhibitions will now follow the seasons with different shows in each gallery four times a year. The seasonal theme carries through to the wider programme with the Pavilion commission signalling the start of London's summer and the multidisciplinary Marathon, a fixture of Frieze week in the autumn. The Serpentine's programme of outdoor sculpture with The Royal Parks continues with Fischli/Weiss's monumentalRock on Top of Another Rock, which remains in place until March 2014. 

The opening of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery marks a new beginning for the internationally acclaimed arts organisation, which has championed new ideas in contemporary arts since it opened in 1970. The Serpentine Gallery has presented pioneering exhibitions of 1,600 artists over 43 years, from the work of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists and architects of our time such as Louise Bourgeois, Frank Gehry, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. 

The expansion of the Serpentine is made possible through the incredible generosity and support of: 

Founders
The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation 

Founding Patrons
Michael R Bloomberg
The Luma Foundation
The David Ross Foundation
Lars and Tatiana Windhorst
The Wolfson Foundation 

Founding Benefactors
Stephen and Yana Peel 

Arts Council England 

Founding Artist Patrons
The following artists generously donated works to the Artists for the Serpentine Gallery Auction 2011, supported by Sotheby's: 

Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, Anthony Caro, John Currin, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Yang Fudong, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Subodh Gupta, Andreas Gursky, N.S. Harsha, Susan Hefuna, Damien Hirst, M.F. Husain, Jitish Kallat, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Bharti Kher, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Maria Lassnig, Annie Leibovitz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Richard Prince, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Do-Ho Suh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rikrit Tiravanija, Rebecca Warren, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread and Richard Hamilton (Education).

dopo il 1989... open call alla Serpentine Gallery

Se sei nato dopo il 1989 puoi partecipare all'invito della Serpentine Gallery per la maratona culturale del 18 e 19 Ottobre 2013 che si tiene in contemporanea alla Frieze Art Faire, tutti i dettagli qui sotto nel bando  

www.89plus.com

89plus is a long-term, international, multi-platform research project co-founded by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is conceived as a mapping of the generation born in or after 1989. Without forecasting artistic trends or predicting future creation, 89plus manifests itself through panels, books, periodicals and exhibitions, bringing together individuals from a generation whose voices are only starting to be heard, yet which makes up almost half of the world’s population.

Marked by several paradigm-shifting events, the year 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the start of the post-Cold War period; the introduction of the World Wide Web and the beginning of the universal availability of the Internet, as well as the orbit of the first Global Positioning System satellite. Positing a relationship between these world-changing events and creative production at large, 89plus introduces the work of some of this generation’s most inspiring protagonists.

Since an introductory panel held in January 2013 at the DLD – Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, 89plus has conducted research in Australia with Kaldor Public Art Projects and Hong Kong with Art Basel’s Salon series. In partnership with the Park Avenue Armory in New York, 89plus selected visual artist and curator Alex Dolan to be artist-in-residence during the Armory’s Under Construction series, taking place in September 2013.

Open call

89plus announces an open call for artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, musicians, designers, scientists and technologists. 

There is only one rule: you must be 89plus—born in or after 1989. The open call is hosted at www.89plus.com.

Submissions are kept on a private research database for consideration by the project’s co-curators. As the project continues in the years to come, those selected will be notified of their inclusion in new endeavours.

Submissions are welcome at any time, however the mid-year deadline for 2013 activities is July 30, 2013.

www.89plus.com is kindly supported by DLD – Digital, Life, Design.

89plus is partnering with DIS Magazine for a special DIScrit 89plus, which will be announced shortly.

www.dismagazine.com

The 89plus Marathon: Friday 18 & Saturday 19 October 2013

Taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair and inspired by Sou Fujimoto’s cloud-like Pavilion 2013 for the Serpentine Gallery, the 89plus Marathon will bring emerging practitioners from all disciplines together with world-renowned artists and thinkers.

The 89plus Marathon will be the eighth in the Serpentine Gallery’s annual Marathon series, an ambitious event that brings together the fields of art, culture, science and technology. Previous Marathons were theInterview Marathon, 2006 (with Rem Koolhaas); the Experiment Marathon, 2007 (with Olafur Eliasson); theManifesto Marathon, 2008; the Poetry Marathon, 2009; the Map Marathon, 2010; the Garden Marathon, 2011 and last year’s Memory Marathon.

The Serpentine Gallery Marathon series was conceived by Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2006 and is deeply intertwined with the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Commission, launched by Director Julia Peyton-Jones in 2000.

The 89plus Marathon is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets and Jochen Volz.

Serpentine Gallery

Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA

Nearest Tube: South Kensington or Lancaster Gate

Hours: Daily 10–6pm. Admission free.

www.serpentinegallery.org

Thanks to Kevin McGarry (SVP); Katherine Dionysius and Andrew Elmendorf of 89plus; and Claire Feeley, Serpentine Gallery, for their invaluable help.