Serpentine Gallery

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Serpentine Gallery

The Serpentine Gallery is an art museum in Kensington Gardens in central London . It essentially exhibits modern and contemporary art. According to the company, more than 750,000 people visit the exhibition every year. Entry is free. The gallery is financed by the British government and private patrons.

development

The gallery was founded in 1970 by the Arts Council of Great Britain and is housed in a classicist tea house from 1934. On the floor in the entrance area of ​​the building is a work of art by Hamilton Finlay in collaboration with Peter Coates in honor of Lady Diana , who was the patron of the gallery. The gallery takes its name from the nearby Serpentine Lake . Works by Man Ray , Henry Moore , Andy Warhol , Maria Lassnig , Marisa Merz and Damien Hirst have been shown to this day.

Julia Peyton-Jones was director from 1986 to 2016 . A completely new exhibition concept was created under her leadership. British businesswoman and philanthropist Yana Peel was elected as her successor in 2016 . Hans-Ulrich Obrist , who works as a curator and co-director of the Serpentine Galleries since 2003, took on the same date the post of artistic director ( Artistic director ). In June 2019, Yana Peel resigned from her position as GEO.

At first the gallery was only open in the summer months. Since 2000, some architects have been building a temporary pavilion on the site every year and presenting it to the public. In 2016, four additional pavilions were built as public summer houses. The architects were the Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi , the German-American firm Barkow Leibinger , the London architect and designer Asif Khan and the Hungarian-French architectural utopian Yona Friedman .

Exhibitions

Pavilions

The following architects designed a pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery:

  • Toyo Ito Pavilion 2002

  • Pavilion 2009, SANAA

  • Pavilion 2012, Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron

  • Pavilion 2013, Sou Fujimoto

  • Pavilion 2016, Bjarke Ingels

  • Pavilion 2018, Frida Escobedo

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery has existed near the gallery since 2013, and is housed in a former gunpowder magazine from 1805. The gallery is named after the two patrons Mortimer and Theresa Sackler, whose foundation, The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation , made it possible to finance the project.

The modern extension was planned by the architect Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Patrik Schumacher . The gallery has an exhibition area of ​​905 m² as well as a restaurant and a shop.

Exhibitions
  • 2013/2014: Wael Shawky : Myths and Legends .
  • In 2014, works by the Italian designer Martino Gamper entitled Design is a State of Mind and the American sculptor Trisha Donnelly were also on view.
  • 2015: Simon Denny. Products for Formalized Organizations .

literature

  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006: Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond with Arup. König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-393-7 .
  • Peter Zumthor. Hortus Conclusus. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011. König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-055-0 .
  • Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Gallery Pavillion (2013), Ed. Sophie O'Brian, König, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86335-408-4 .

Web links

Commons : Serpentine Gallery Pavilion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  2. ^ Gareth Harris: Philanthropist Yana Peel appointed chief executive of London's Serpentine Galleries In: The Art Newspaper. April 13, 2016, accessed April 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Alex Greenberger: Galleries CEO Yana Peel Is Indirect Owner of Company with Stake in Controversial Tech Firm Artnews, June 15, 2019
  4. ↑ We build summer houses for everyone in FAZ from June 10, 2016, page 11
  5. ↑ Gina Thomas: “Pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery. A snail shell by Eliasson and Thorsen ” , FAZ , August 24, 2007.
  6. ↑ Zaha Hadid, Serpentine Pavilion , Zaha Hadid architects, archive, accessed June 30, 2019
  7. ↑ Rory Scott: SelgasCano's 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Opens , archdaily.com, 22nd June 2015, accessed June 30, 2019
  8. ^ "Serpentine Galleries Pavilion 2016 by Bjarke Ingels" , accessed April 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Protection and shield in FAZ of June 27, 2017, p. 11
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  14. ↑ Reboot the planet . In: FAZ of October 1, 2013, p. 33.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 0 ° 10 ′ 30.2 ″  W.