Salma Hayek Pinault to co-host Serpentine Summer Party as Lanza atelier unveils this year’s pavilion
The Serpentine Summer Party, long a fixture of London’s art calendar, will return on 23 June with Salma Hayek Pinault among its co-hosts. The invite-only fundraiser has become one of the city’s most visible crossovers between contemporary art, fashion, film, and philanthropy, and this year’s edition arrives with a distinctly Mexican thread.
Hayek Pinault will co-host alongside Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Last year, Cate Blanchett helped lead the event, which is tied to the Serpentine pavilion in Kensington Gardens, the temporary architectural commission that has become a summer landmark in its own right.
This year’s pavilion, titled a serpentine, is designed by Mexico City-based architecture firm Lanza atelier. In a statement, Hayek Pinault said she felt an immediate connection when she visited Frida Escobedo’s pavilion in 2018, describing that work as a Mexican architect in conversation with one of the world’s great parks. She said Lanza atelier’s project continues that dialogue.
Her involvement also carries a personal resonance. Hayek Pinault starred in and produced the 2002 film Frida, which brought Frida Kahlo’s life to a wider international audience. The pairing of the pavilion and the party’s co-hosts underscores how the Serpentine has increasingly used its summer programming to link architecture, celebrity, and global cultural influence.
With Lanza atelier’s pavilion now set to anchor the season, the party once again places the Serpentine at the center of London’s summer art circuit — where architecture is not just displayed, but staged as a social event.
