Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park – Until 8 February 2026

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist (from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades) plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers. Each painting in the exhibition engages with music in a different way: some depict spaces where music is played or heard, others show musicians performing or people dancing.