Serpentine Galleries

Closing tomorrow! Don't miss the exhibition 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' at Serpentine South. We're open 10am-6pm and entry is free 🤝

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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views.

Exhibition supported by , and The Marandi Foundation.

⏰ Last chance to visit! 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' closes this Sunday.

The exhibition is a vivid exploration of the possibilities – and impossibilities – of translating between painting, drawing and sculpture. Here's what you've been saying:

"There is a beautiful harmony and clarity to the exhibition."

"The amount of movement, dynamism and force you can feel through the mark making is awe inspiring."

"I've never seen an exhibition like this before, where you can sit so closely with the pieces, feel their presence and weight and contemplate them."

Don't miss it - here's the details to plan your visit:
🎟️ Free entry
📍 Serpentine South
📆 10am-6pm everyday until Sun 7 Jan

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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

Here are more of the places you've explored inside of the 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' video game ☄️☄️☄️

Play the game for free via Steam (PC-only) and share a snapshot of where you get to with us by tagging and 📸

📷 of artist , seen through the eyes of his wife, Elke.

"The decision to use yellow is very clear... For us, yellow stands for envy, while it might signify happiness or good fortune somewhere else. I find that yellow is a colour that outshines a lot of things... [it's] a state prior to gold. I would prefer to make these sculptures gold, but I've never dared to do so."
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Visit 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' for free at Serpentine South until 7 Jan 2024.

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Image: 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' installation views. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.

We recently visited the remarkable artist at her studio in Kent - a quiet haven where the floor is cushioned by infinite layers of newspaper and the walls, windows and furniture are encrusted in years worth of oil paint.

A studio tour is dropping tomorrow - keep your eyes peeled!

💌 A letter from to .

For the 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' catalogue, we asked artists what Baselitz's work means to them. Emin's contribution came in the form of a handwritten letter. It reads:

Dear Georg Baselitz,

First of all can I say, I have always loved your work - I like it a lot, I could very happily live with it because it never bores me - you, your ART is unapologetic.

You have spent your life emptying your soul.

You paint like a caveman, a primal being, who was there from the beginning and you will be there till the end.

In the 1990s when it felt to me that the emotional doors of art were close, you were there forcefully trying to smash them open. You did and you have kept them open.

You kept the gateways open for artists like me - you held the hand of Munch and marched swiftly into the future like a Time Lord moving from one world to another.

The love and emotion of your art will stand the test of time. History will be on your side because you always tell your truth.

The journey is yours.

Love,
Tracey Emin

To make the towering sculpture 'Zero Dom', artist first made a smaller version out of wood. This maquette, which is also on view in the gallery, was 3D scanned to create a silicone mould ten times the size. Bronze was then poured into this mould and the 30ft version of the sculpture was born! 

Describing the transformation of the work from timber to bronze, Baselitz says: "'Zero Dom' used to be a house made of wood, now it is coal... The house is empty, as the title says, but even an empty dome can stand on firm foundations."

You can visit 'Zero Dom' for free until 7 Jan. You'll find it in the park just outside Serpentine South - it's hard to miss!

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Images: Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 installation views, 2023. Photo 2: Hugo Glendinning.

The drawings on view in the exhibition 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' reflect the artist's sculptural process - they are a way for Baselitz to problem-solve and experiment with the possibilities and impossibilities of translating between painting, drawing and sculpture.

Drawn loosely in ink, these drawings show two recurring motifs - feet and hoops - which are also seen in the sculpture 'Winterschlaf (Hibernation)' (last image).

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Images:
[1-4] Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
[5] Georg Baselitz, 'Winterschlaf (Hibernation)', 2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.

“To me", says artist , "this game is a technology for other artists to proclaim it as theirs in a way of going wild with their own practice and taking it into the digital realm.”

Come and play 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' at Serpentine North - it's the last week of the exhibition!

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'Gabriel Massan & Collaborators: Third World: The Bottom Dimension' is led by and Serpentine Arts Technologies, featuring , , , and . Powered by . 



🎟️ Free admission
📍 Serpentine North
📆 Thu-Sun, until 26 Nov

👾 Closing soon! Don't miss your chance to experience & Collaborators: 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension'.

These are just a few of the latest memories you've minted from your gameplay on . Play in-person and explore Massan's expansive worlds until 26 Nov at Serpentine North. Open Thu-Sun, 10am-6pm.

You asked for more Moore, so we took another dive into the archive - this time to the year 1995, when exhibited this sculpture depicting a reclining figure for the exhibition 'Here & Now'.

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Image: 'Reclining Figure', Henry Moore, 1995.

Let's take a closer look at some of the video game assets designed for Gabriel Massan's 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension'.

[1] Passing Power 👻
[2] Air Crystal 🔮
[3] Bag of Infinite Seeds 🌱
[4] Fire Power 🔥
[5] Eye Mask 👁️
[6] Crystal Energy 🌞

🎮 Play the game in-person at Serpentine North for free until 26 Nov and play online via Steam (PC-only) https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/gabriel-massan-collaborators-third-world-the-bottom-dimension-exhibition/

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Assets designed by Masako Hirano.

Takashi Murakami 🍄

In 2002, we presented ’s work in the galleries - it was the first time his work was shown in the UK.

The exhibition included portrayals of Murakami’s 1993 invention, Mr DOB, a comic-like character that became his signature, logo and alter ego, and makes a regular appearance in his paintings and sculptures, some of which see Mr DOB morphed into a half-cartoon, half-monster figure.

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Images: Takashi Murakami, installation view from the exhibition 'Takashi Murakami' at Serpentine South © 2002 Takashi Murakami.

"My carvings are best described by Immanuel Kant: 'Out of the crooked wood of humanity, nothing entirely straight can be built. It is only the approximation of this idea that nature imposes upon us.'” —

Swipe for a detail of Baselitz’s sculpture 'Yellow Song', where you can see the texture of the timber, as well as distinctive incisions and notches across the surface.

Visit 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' at Serpentine South until 7 Jan.

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Images: Georg Baselitz, 'Yellow Song', 2012-2013. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.

It's the last chance to visit the 2023, which closes on Sunday at 6pm.

'À table' by is free to visit and open to all. Inside, you'll find a café and a large table along the perimeter, so it's the perfect place to take a break during your stroll in the park. Don't miss it!

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Photo: Andy Stagg

'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015' opens next Thursday!
 
“Sculpture is a thing like a miracle. It is built up, decked out, made arbitrarily not as the sign of thoughts but as a thing within the limits of the shape.” - Georg Baselitz

See the artist's towering sculptural works and inky drawings at Serpentine South from Thu 5 Oct until 7 Jan. Free to visit.

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Image: Georg Baselitz, Zero Mobil (Zero Mobile), 2013-2014. © Georg Baselitz 2023. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.

Exhibition supported by , and The Marandi Foundation.

➡️ Swipe for Lina Ghotmeh's advice to a young architect

And if you're keen to know more about this year's or want to hear about the first building Ghotmeh designed, head over to our YouTube channel where we've just published a conversation between the architect and Hans Ulrich Obrist held in the Pavilion earlier this summer.

Here are some of the memories you've minted as NFTs from the 'Third World: The Bottom Dimension' video game!

"The exhibition makes spaces available for communities to be started and by minting this record or snapshot on Tezos we can build a public archive of multiple perspectives and actions.” – Gabriel Massan

View the public archive of minted tokens on Objkt and share your memories with us using https://objkt.com/collection/KT1RJdGjRk8u319k4RhqYTeSEBzbQVuBPHrF

When Baci met Biscotti...

The West Gallery at Serpentine South is the new meeting place for pups!

🌩️ The form of these sculptures by are inspired by cumulonimbus clouds, more commonly known as thunderclouds, which forewarn of stormy weather and occur more frequently as a result of climate change.

They also serve as models for interspecies encounters: nests and water baths for birds, houses for hedgehogs, objects conceived for dogs, nooks for invertebrates and steps for squirrels to climb. The works are a part of Saraceno’s project 'Cloud Cities', where he asks what forms of urban architecture might emerge when large cities are not only built from a human perspective.

You can see the sculptures inside the gallery, on the roof of the building and within the park as part of the exhibition at Serpentine South.

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Images: Installation views at Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life, Serpentine, London, 2023. Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno.

This is the lightwell at the centre of the roof the 2023. It invites natural light into the space and echoes the shape of the Pavilion's overall structure.

"The Pavilion serves as a place of meeting, togetherness, conviviality, and joy" says Lina Ghotmeh, “I began by looking at the circles made by the canopies of the trees, and set the structure back to avoid their roots, making it the least invasive on the living surroundings as possible.”

Visiting the Pavilion is free and it's open until Oct 2023 at Serpentine South!

Photo: Harry Richards