Tuesday 20 June 2023
07:45
Serpentine Pavilion
Breakfast with Bettina Korek in the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion
Join us for a very special breakfast held at Serpentine South, within this year’s Pavilion designed by Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh. Serpentine’s CEO, Bettina Korek, will welcome guests, reflect on the commission, and share her vision for the future of the Serpentine.
Bettina is Chief Executive of Serpentine, Kensington Gardens, whose programme has built new connections between art and society since 1970. She has two decades of experience as an arts leader in her hometown of Los Angeles, most recently as founding Executive Director of Frieze Los Angeles, establishing the first two editions of the fair in 2018 at 2019 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. In 2006, she founded ForYourArt, an organization that has expanded the place of art in everyday life in Southern California through projects with institutions like The Getty, LACMA and Los Angeles Tourism, brands as well as municipal governments and especially local artists, including legends like Mark Bradford, Barbara Kruger, Raymond Pettibon and the late John Baldessari. She served on the Los Angeles County Arts Commissioner from 2011-2020 and was the organization’s President in 2016.
Designed by Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh and titled À table, the French call to sit down together at a table, Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will allude to a sense of unity with the form of its structure and an organic design of a table. Inspired by nature and echoing the grounds and canopies of the trees and its surroundings, the idea of togetherness and community will take centre stage in Ghotmeh’s structural architecture.
CEO of Serpentine
Bettina is Chief Executive of Serpentine, Kensington Gardens, whose programme has built new connections between art and society since 1970. She has two decades of experience as an arts leader in her hometown of Los Angeles, most recently as founding Executive Director of Frieze Los Angeles, establishing the first two editions of the fair in 2018 at 2019 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. In 2006, she founded ForYourArt, an organization that has expanded the place of art in everyday life in Southern California through projects with institutions like The Getty, LACMA and Los Angeles Tourism, brands as well as municipal governments and especially local artists, including legends like Mark Bradford, Barbara Kruger, Raymond Pettibon and the late John Baldessari. She served on the Los Angeles County Arts Commissioner from 2011-2020 and was the organization’s President in 2016.
