Serpentine Galleries

Kensington Gardens · South Kensington or Lancaster Gate tube

The Serpentine Galleries occupy two spaces in Kensington Gardens: Serpentine South, a 1934 tea house, and Serpentine North, an 1805 gunpowder store with a 2013 Zaha Hadid extension. Admission to the exhibition programme is free. In late August 2026, David Hockney: A Year in Normandie is in its final days at North (until 23 August — the artist's last London show; he died in June aged 88). Cecily Brown: Picture Making is at South until 6 September. Outside, LANZA atelier's 25th Pavilion, 'a serpentine', stands until 25 October, and a Hockney garden mural remains until 20 September.