LONDON.- This year, from October 2025 to February 2026, Serpentine will stage House of Music, a new project by one of today’s leading British artists: Peter Doig. The exhibition will mark a return to Serpentine for Doig who first exhibited at the gallery in 1991 in the Barclays Young Artist Award.
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Presenting Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition will highlight the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, alongside the importance of sites of communal gathering and creative exchange.
Doig has accumulated a substantial archive of vinyl over decades and an in-depth knowledge of musical genres. For House of Music, Doig will bring his archive to life through a sculptural installation of rare, restored analogue speakers. During the course of the exhibition Doig will invite a roster of musicians and other music enthusiasts to animate this ‘high fidelity’ equipment with their own selection of vinyl through a series of residencies.
Envisaged as a multi-sensory environment, Doig will present new and recent paintings alongside the sound installation, inviting visitors to pause and linger as they listen, transforming the gallery into place of contemplation, reflection and conversation.
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and grew up in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London to study at Saint Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Since 2002, he has divided his time between London and Trinidad where he set up a studiofilmclub, an influential repertoire cinema club he hosted in his studio in Laventille.
Major survey exhibitions include Tate Britain, London (2008, travelled to ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2008– 09); No Foreign Lands, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2013, travelled to Musée des beauxarts de Montréal, 2014); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2014–15); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2020); and Courtauld Gallery, London (2023). In 2023–24, he curated the exhibition Reflections of the Century at Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which placed his works in dialogue with selections from the museum’s collection. Doig taught for many years, notably at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, where he held a professorship from 2004 to 2017. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, and in 2008 was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.
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