Peter Doig - House of Music
This catalogue is published on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition House of Music presented at Serpentine South, 10 October 2025 – 8 February 2026. Accompanying Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition highlights the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, while reflecting on the importance of communal gathering and creative exchange. Conceived as a multi-sensory environment, House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space, bringing together recent paintings by Doig with sound broadcast through two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums.
Designed by the Paris-based studio Faye and Gina, this publication echoes the design of a 12-inch record cover. It features a newly commissioned text by Michael Bracewell exploring the intersection of music and visual arts; a short history of sound systems development for theatres by Laurence Passera; poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Derek Walcott and an in-depth interview between the artist and Serpentine’s Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. Alongside these contributions, the publication also features reproductions of paintings and installation images, archival materials, and engineering diagrams of the speakers featured in the exhibition.
Edited by Natalia Grabowska and Alexa Chow
2026
31 x 31 x 0.9 cm
80 pages
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0936-1
© Serpentine
© Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
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Description
This catalogue is published on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition House of Music presented at Serpentine South, 10 October 2025 – 8 February 2026. Accompanying Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition highlights the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, while reflecting on the importance of communal gathering and creative exchange. Conceived as a multi-sensory environment, House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space, bringing together recent paintings by Doig with sound broadcast through two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums.
Designed by the Paris-based studio Faye and Gina, this publication echoes the design of a 12-inch record cover. It features a newly commissioned text by Michael Bracewell exploring the intersection of music and visual arts; a short history of sound systems development for theatres by Laurence Passera; poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Derek Walcott and an in-depth interview between the artist and Serpentine’s Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist. Alongside these contributions, the publication also features reproductions of paintings and installation images, archival materials, and engineering diagrams of the speakers featured in the exhibition.
Edited by Natalia Grabowska and Alexa Chow
2026
31 x 31 x 0.9 cm
80 pages
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0936-1
© Serpentine
© Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
