Serpentine Pavilion, with the new leadership of CEO Yana Peel and Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, announced a series of programmes and partnerships which will begin an exciting new chapter in the development of the Serpentine. 

The team of Serpentine outlined the new direction that the Serpentine will take with an emphasis on artists, audiences, technology, partnerships, innovation and accessibility for everyone. This includes the announcement of a year-long programme of exhibitions, the appointment of two new trustees, a new approach to the Serpentine Summer Pavilion and a series of innovative artists’ partnerships.

There will be a new approach to the Serpentine Pavilion programme, in which a group of architects have been invited to submit designs for the 2017 commission. The selection will be made by Yana Peel and Hans Ulrich Obrist together with a new Pavilion advisory group that includes Richard Rogers and David Adjaye. The Serpentine's Pavilion commission, conceived in 2000, has become an international site for architectural experimentation and has presented projects by some of the world's greatest architects.

The presentation of outstanding exhibitions will remain the lifeblood of the Serpentine. A major exhibition of works by Zaha Hadid, which was jointly conceived with the architect before she died, will present rarely seen paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations by the architect as well as her visionary digital work. The exhibition will also include a selection of her notebooks, which will be shown in public for the very first time, giving a fascinating insight into her ideas and working practices between December 8, 2016 - February 12, 2017.

From 2017, there will be an artist-led Congress of Ideas. Inspired by John Latham and Barbara Steveni’s Artist Placement Group, the Congress will address urgent issues, bringing artists together with politicians, scientists and business leaders to pool knowledge and offer solutions to pressing 21st century problems.

''Zaha Hadid once said that ‘there should be no end to experimentation’ and this has become a mantra for the Serpentine team. It is the reason why we continue to put artists at the core of everything we do, crossing disciplines, innovating and reaching out to new audiences,'' said Yana Peel, CEO, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director.

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