Peter Zumthor

Serpentine Gallery

For his 2011 Serpentine Pavilion commission, Peter Zumthor provided visitors with a hortus conclusus--a "secret garden" whose contents were designed by Piet Oudolf, hidden within an enigmatic plain black structure. This volume records the pavilion, which received rave reviews, with photographs and a fully illustrated index of the plants used.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011

Peter Zumthor. Hortus Conclusus

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Dominic Molon

Carol S. Eliel

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Marjorie King

Margery King

Andy Warhol Museum

Mariko Mori

Lisa Corrin

The futuristic, sci-fi like scenarios created by the artist Mariko Mori in her photographs and video installations often include Mori herself, dressed in outlandish costume, and are intriguing and imaginative works which combine elements of Japanese popular culture, such as Japanimation, as well as fashion, cyberspace, and video art. Mori, who studied fashion in Tokyo and art in London and New York, has become one of the freshest young artists working in the '90s, and this book, which is the first on her work, comprehensively catalogs her upcoming exhibitions. Recent video work by Mori has included such works as Nirvana (shown at the '97 Venice Biennale), in which the artist depicts herself making symbolic Buddhist hand-gestures as she floats above the Dead Sea. Still another piece is a video in which Mori, in futuristic space wear, rolls a crystal ball through an airport to the haunting melodies of a Japanese song. These works involve a surrealistic interplay of imagery which suggests something akin to the art of Yayoi Kusama, the costs of funk icon George Clinton, science fiction, and the film works of Matthew Barney.

Leonora Carrington

Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures 1940-1990

Sōsuke Fujimoto

From the Gallery website: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine's annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000. We are thrilled to be working with one of the most fascinating architects in the world today. A visionary, who has conceived an extraordinary response to our invitation to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Sou Fujimoto has designed a structure that will enthral everyone that encounters it throughout the summer. --Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013

Sou Fujimoto

Tilda Swinton

Isaac Julien

Brutal Beautypresents Isaac Julien's refreshing vision of Derek Jarman as a true Renaissance man--a painter, director, activist, diarist and gardener--whose infectiously prolific range of enterprises belies a consistent preoccupation with liberated sexual politics and the defiance of inherited mores.

Brutal Beauty

Derek Jarman

Gerhard Richter

This book showcases a major new work '4900 Colours', which comprises of brightly coloured squares randomly arranged in a grid formation. The 196 panels of 25 coloured squares can be re-configured in 11 variations ranging from one large-scale painting to multiple, smaller paintings of varying sizes.

4900 Colours

27 Artists Chosen from an Open Submission

Summer Shows 1,2,3

Zhen Chen

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 28 April - 3 June 2001.

Serpentine Gallery, London : 28 April-3 June, 2001

Chen Zhen

Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas : 5 December - 27 January

Olafur Eliasson

Doreen B. Massey

Ilka Ruby

Andreas Ruby

Kjetil Thorsen

Olafur Eliasson is based in Berlin where he has established Studio Olafur Eliasson, a laboratory for spatial research. His work explores the relationship between individuals and their surroundings, as experienced in his awe-inspiring large-scale installation The weather project (2003) at Tate Modern, London. Kjetil Thorsen is co-founder of Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia's leading architectural practices, with offices in Oslo and New York. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt 1995-2001, is the commission that brought Snoehetta to international acclaim.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007

Gabriel Orozco

Briony Fer

B. H. D. Buchloh

Rochelle Steiner

Considered to be one of the greatest conceptual and installation artists of his generation, this text surveys key aspects of the practice of Gabriel Orozco.

Takashi Murakami

Hélène Kelmachter

Une présentation de l'oeuvre de cet artiste, considéré comme l'un des chefs de file du néopop japonais, créateur en 1993 de Mr Dob qui devient sa signature. Décliné en peintures, sculptures gonflables, T-shirts ou montres, ce personnage mi-drolatique mi-monstrueux connaît au Japon une notoriété sans précédent dans le monde de l'art contemporain.

expositions , Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 27 juin-27 octobre 2002 , Serpentine gallery, London, November 2002-January 2003

Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki

Ken Kiff

Serpentine Gallery, London, 11 January-23 February 1986, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 22 March-20 April 1986, Arnolfini, Bristol, 10 May-15 June 1986

Ken Kiff, Paintings 1965-85

Serpentine Gallery

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