SERPENTINE GALLERIES
SPRING 2017 |
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| SUMMER EXHIBITIONS |
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GRAYSON PERRY:
THE MOST POPULAR ART EXHIBITION EVER! |
8 JUNE - 10 SEPTEMBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE |
This summer Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, will present a major exhibition of new work. These will touch on many themes including popularity and art, masculinity and the current cultural landscape and will tackle one of Perry’s central concerns: how contemporary art can best address a diverse cross section of society
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| ARTHUR JAFA: A SERIES OF UTTERLY IMPROBABLE, YET EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS |
8 JUNE - 10 SEPTEMBER
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE |
The Serpentine is pleased to present the work of the acclaimed US filmmaker, cinematographer and artist Arthur Jafa in his first solo UK exhibition. Jafa has developed a dynamic practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that challenge predominant cultural assumptions about identity and race
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| SERPENTINE PAVILION 2017 |
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| SERPENTINE PAVILION 2017 DESIGNED BY FRANCIS KÉRÉ |
23 JUNE – 8 OCTOBER
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE |
Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkino Faso, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens.
As an architect, Kéré is committed to socially engaged and ecological design in his practice, as evidenced by his award-winning primary school in Burkina Faso, pioneering solo museum shows in Munich and Philadelphia, and his immersive installation in the 2014 exhibition Sensing Spaces at London’s Royal Academy |
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| A SEASON OF JOHN LATHAM |
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| FLAT TIME HOUSE |
| 210 BELLENDEN ROAD, SE15 4BW |
In dialogue with the Serpentine's show, A World View: John Latham, Flat Time House (FTHo) opens on 6 April with a new exhibition and a programme of talks and events. For full details, please visit flattimeho.org.uk
Flat Time House: Living Sculpture
6 April - 21 May
Open Thursday – Sunday 12-6pm, Free
John Latham declared FTHo a living sculpture in 2003. This exhibition introduces FTHo and John Latham’s conception of Flat Time, with artists Giles Bailey, Anna Barham, Laure Prouvost and David Toop
Tours of Flat Time House
Saturdays 8, 15, 22 and 29 April, 2PM, Free
Tour FTHo with curator/director Gareth Bell-Jones
Talks
Sundays 9, 23 and 30 April, Free
A series of informal in-conversations moderated by Gareth Bell-Jones will take place over successive weeks addressing the Mind, Brain, Body Event and Hand of FTHo as a living sculpture |
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| UNWRITTEN HANDBOOK: HELEN KAZAN IN CONVERSATION |
6 APRIL 2017, 7PM
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED |
Join Helene Kazan for Imperiled House, a lecture- performance, followed by a conversation with artist and filmmaker Rania Stephan. Kazan's residency with the Serpentine Galleries will outline the need to investigate into the structural violence that affects the urban fabric of Beirut, as a condition historically connected to the evolving state of London |
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CALLY SPOONER: UNITED IN STOMACH FLU, LONDON WEEPS
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21 APRIL 2017, 8PM
SERPENTINE GALLERY
TICKETS £5/£4 VIA TICKETWEB |
A reading by Cally Spooner from her novel in progress, interspersed with some unwritten thoughts for 2017, possibly on states of rehearsal, Galileo's telescope, out-of-work speech writers, sweat, shame, structured reality, fake news, false tears and outsourcing
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| FROM OUR FRIENDS |
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| INTO THE UNKNOWN: A JOURNEY THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION |
3 JUNE – 1 SEPTEMBER
BARBICAN CENTRE
TICKETS £14.50
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| Book now to experience Science Fiction on an unprecedented scale in this genre-defining exhibition of art, design, film and literature, including work by contemporary artists Conrad Shawcross and Larissa Sansour |
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| DRAWING BIENNIAL 2017 |
UNTIL 26 APRIL
THE DRAWING ROOM
FREE |
Explore how artists contend with a world in rapid and disorienting flux through drawing. This snapshot of contemporary drawing practices, including more than 200 new and recent works on paper by leading international artists, culminates in an online auction |
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