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Serpentine Galleries

Serpentine Galleries
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Serpentine Galleries is located in Central London
Serpentine Galleries
Location within Central London
Established 1970; 47 years ago (1970)
Location Kensington Gardens
London, W2
United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°30′17″N 0°10′30″W / 51.50466°N 0.17505°W / 51.50466; -0.17505
Visitors

734,353 (2009)

Director

Yana Peel

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Public transit access London Underground Lancaster Gate; South Kensington
Website www.serpentinegalleries.org

734,353 (2009)

Yana Peel

The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Comprising the Serpentine Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, they are within five minutes' walk of each other, linked by the bridge over the Serpentine Lake from which the galleries get their names. Their exhibitions, architecture, education and public programmes attract up to 1.2 million visitors a year. Admission to both galleries is free.

The Serpentine Gallery was established in 1970 and is housed in a Grade II listed former tea pavilion built in 1933–34 by the architect James Grey West. Notable artists whose works have been exhibited there include Man Ray, Henry Moore, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Allan McCollum, Anish Kapoor, Christian Boltanski, Philippe Parreno, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gerhard Richter, Gustav Metzger, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Marina Abramović. On the ground at the gallery's entrance is a permanent work made by Ian Hamilton Finlay in collaboration with Peter Coates, and dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales, the gallery's former patron.


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