Marina Tabassum Architects is an internationally-acclaimed architecture and studio-based practice from Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a mission of establishing a global language for architecture that is at the same time, locally rooted, and sensitive to geography and climate in a time when both are rapidly changing.

Tabassum is the architect commissioned for the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion – unveiled this week – bringing their unique vision and environmentally conscious work to London in A Capsule in Time. An elongated capsule-like form with a central court aligns with Serpentine South’s bell tower, inspired by long summer days spent in the park. The structure is edged by a translucent facade that diffuses the light in striking ways throughout the space. This aspect – changing with the weather – is key to Tabassum’s design concept.

From the sensory to the spiritual: the interplay of light thanks to the cleverly constructed pavilion – which takes inspiration from Shamiyana tents and awnings typical to South Asia – the openness of the pavilion invites passage, communing and the flow of ideas, conversations and bodies to move seamlessly in and out.

London-born artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan is one of the UK’s most exciting and promising young artists. At 31, this is her first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, having joined the gallery in 2024 and participated in a residency at the gallery’s Somerset studios. Yearwood-Dan has become sought-after for her dreamy, large-scale and luscious paintings, semi-abstract meanderings through her personal world.

This all-new body of work is in part inspired by an article Toni Morrison wrote for The Nation responding to the re-election of George W Bush, “There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilisations heal.” Finding startling similarities with today’s political context, Yearwood-Dan’s work set about imagining, creating, collaborating, comforting.

There’s an emotive, breathtaking new 11-metre work, with an accompanying sound piece made in collaboration with Alex Gruz, benches made in collaboration with Homewrk Design, plinths made in collaboration with Theodore Vass, and new ceramic pieces that have become part of Yearwood-Dan’s work in more recent years. All of these works insist and don’t let go of the idea, – the sustained belief – in beauty, in joy, and in coming together. Yearwood-Dan will be in conversation with Ekow Eshun on June 6 from 6pm.