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The Serpentine Gallery was founded
by the Arts Council of Britain in 1971 as a temporary exhibition
space for modern and contemporary art.
Housed in a Grade II-listed former
tea pavilion, dating from 1908, the gallery is set in Kensington
Gardens, near the Serpentine lake and amid lawns,
trees and shrubberies.
In 1998 the gallery re-opened
after undergoing redevelopment and renovation by architects
John Miller and Partners. The gallery now provides a
flexible, state-of-the-art environment for international art,
as well as an education area.
The gallery houses temporary
exhibitions of contemporary painting and sculpture, which
often spill out into the surrounding park. Since the
early 1990s the gallery has become one of London's leading
venues for important shows of recent work by established British
artists, among them Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst.
It also hosts retrospectives of artists such as Bridget Riley,
Henry Moore and Man Ray.
The Serpentine Gallery's independent
curatorial policy has won it an enthusiastic following. In
2001 a separate temporary pavilion was installed on the lawn
in front of the gallery, called 'Eighteen Turns', designed
by Daniel Libeking with Ove Arup.
The gallery's small shop has
a selection of art books.
Admission free
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