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The Serpentine Summer Season 2018

By Lucy Scovell on 20/7/2018

The opening of the Serpentine Pavilion marks the beginning of the Serpentine Summer Season. From Frida Escobedo's 'living timepiece' to radical feminist art installations as part of the Friday Night Park series, here's everything you need to know.

The Serpentine Pavilion

The Serpentine Pavilion

She's young, she's cool and she's the first woman to design the Pavilion since the late, great Zaha Hadid. Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion marries Mexican and British influences in the most harmonious of ways. For the duration of the summer, the Pavilion hosts a jam-packed programme of events, including the popular Park Nights arts series, and Radical Kitchen lunches, intended to trigger debate about food, politics, and art. For the full Park Nights programme, click here.

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15 June 2018 - 7 Oct 2019
WHERE
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
Tomma Abts, Feke, 2013. Courtesy Private Collection, New York

Tomma Abts, Serpentine Sackler, London

This summer, the Serpentine Sackler Gallery presents the work of Turner-Prize winning German artist Tomma Abts in her first UK solo exhibition to date. Best known for her colourful geometric patterns, mesmerising illusions in oil and acrylic and her 48cm x 38cm format, Abts' is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation. A retrospective not to miss.

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07 Jun 2018 – 09 Sep 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
West Carriage Drive , Kensington Gardens, London , W2 2AR
Christo and Jeanne-Claudeexhibition, Serpentine Galleries

Christo and Jeanne-Claude exhibition, Serpentine Galleries

The name Christo conjures up many things: the Reichstag shrouded in silvery fabric in Berlin; the Pont Neuf wrapped in fabric in Paris in 1985; and the 92,900 square meters of wrapped coastline in Australia. Over the last 50 years, the Bulgarian sculptor, together with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, has created some of the most dramatic outdoor sculpture and art installations in the world. Now, Christo presents his first major work in the UK, on the Serpentine.

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WHEN
19 Jun 2018 – 09 Sep 2018, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
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