Friends dined on Bangladeshi-inspired delicacies on the Serpentine Summer season Social gathering 2025

Serpentine Galleries marked the official begin of summer season with its annual social gathering final evening (24 June 2025), bringing a plethora of friends collectively in a celebration of 25 years of the Serpentine Pavilion.

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her Dhaka-based agency, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), designers of the twenty fifth Anniversary Serpentine Structure Pavilion, titled A Capsule in Time, have been friends of honour on the occasion hosted by Michael R Bloomberg, chairman of Serpentine’s Board of Trustees; Bettina Korek, Serpentine CEO; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine creative director; and actor, producer and humanitarian Cate Blanchett.

Friends, who have been capable of browse Giuseppe Penone’s exhibition ‘Ideas within the Roots’ at Serpentine South and luxuriate in Sir Peter Prepare dinner’s Play Pavilion, dined in type on dishes together with conventional dum pot biryanis, topped with pastry, layered marinated meats and greens with basmati rice. London restaurant Dorsia was readily available with a tempting meals trolley, providing rooster tenders and caviar.

Chef Skye Gyngell, of Spring, stepped in for desserts. Bangladesh’s seven-layered tea was the inspiration, leading to infusions of lychee and saffron, in addition to coconut, mango and sesame truffles.

‘From our loyal patrons to our impressed companions, we’re deeply grateful to all who made this 12 months’s Serpentine Summer season Social gathering successful,’ mentioned Korek and Obrist. ‘Final evening was a celebration of the artists whose initiatives prolonged from contained in the galleries and past their partitions into the encircling park, of Serpentine supporters in every single place, and of the Serpentine Pavilion’s twenty fifth anniversary. Within the phrases of our very first Pavilion architect, Zaha Hadid, “There must be no finish to experimentation.” Because of the generosity of the worldwide Serpentine neighborhood, and particularly our inaugural Summer season Social gathering Host Committee, the Serpentine spirit of experimentation will proceed all through the summer season and all 12 months spherical.’