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The Kensington Gardens institution will host surveys of modernists Giuseppe Penone and Arpita Singh, and a solo exhibition of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's interactive video game project.

Serpentine Galleries Announces 2025 Exhibitions

Giuseppe Penone, Respirare l'ombra (To Breathe the Shadow) (1999). Wire mesh, laurel leaves, bronze. Total dimension determined by the space. Exhibition view: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin. Photo: © Archivio Penone.

Serpentine in London have announced their exhibition programme for 2025, which includes surveys by modern artists whose works have yet to be thoroughly introduced to the U.K., as well as a new media project commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies.

In March, Serpentine North will present over six decades of Indian artist Arpita Singh's work, marking the artist's first exhibition outside of India. Remembering will showcase the breadth of Singh's practice, featuring large-scale oil paintings, watercolour, and ink drawings.

Born in 1937 in Kolkata, Singh garnered attention in the 1960s with a figurative practice that incorporates surrealist elements and is inspired by Indian miniature painting and Bengali folk art. Her later work explored themes of gender, motherhood, and political unrest.

Singh's exhibition builds on Serpentine's history of showcasing work by artists under-recognised in London, and has included presentations by Barbara Chase-Riboud, James Barnor, and Faith Ringgold.

Arpita Singh, My Lollipop City: Gemini Rising (2005). Vadehra Art Gallery.

Arpita Singh, My Lollipop City: Gemini Rising (2005). Vadehra Art Gallery. © Arpita Singh.

In April, Serpentine South will present a survey of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone's sculptures and works on paper from 1977 to today.

The exhibition will be the Arte Povera artist's most comprehensive in London to date. It will explore his interest in the relationship between people and nature, traced to his upbringing amid the forested region of Northern Italy, and highlight his material experimentations.

In autumn, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley will present a video game exhibition and research and development project commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies.

Brathwaite-Shirley, who graduated from London's Slade School of Fine Art in 2019, works in animation, sound, performance, and video game development, building a practice that employs fiction and personal experience to archive and uphold Black trans stories.

The exhibition centres a video game the artist will develop over the coming year, which will invite audiences to choose their own adventure in a speculative future scenario.

Finally, Serpentine will unveil a new Pavilion as part of its annual commission for a temporary structure in Kensington Gardens, which has featured some of the biggest names in architecture in the past 25 years. Its latest commission went to South Korean architect Minsuk Cho. —[O]

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