This December the Serpentine is set to open an exhibition of paintings and drawings by renowned architect Zaha Hadid (1950-2016). The works will be presented within the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which was itself renovated and extended by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2013.

The exhibition, first conceived by Hadid, will reveal her as an artist, with drawing at the very heart of her work. The show will include calligraphic drawings – influenced by Russian avant-garde artists Malevich, Tatlin and Rodchenko – alongside rarely seen notebooks with sketches revealing the architect’s complex thoughts about architectural forms.

The exhibition will open to the public on 8 December 2016 and runs until 12 February 2017.