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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. 

£30

Dimensions: 31 x 31 x 0.9 cm
Pages: 80 pages  
ISBN: 978-1-908617-93-4
Serpentine, London
978-3-7533-0936-1
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

Edited by: Natalia Grabowska and Alexa Chow
Publication date: 2026
© 2026. Photo: readsreads.info

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Peter Doig (b. 1959, Edinburgh, Scotland) 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. Doig was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Painting in 2025.

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