Zaha Hadid exhibition to be staged in her Sackler Gallery

An exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s art is to be staged at the gallery she converted for the Serpentine.

The show at the Sackler in Kensington Gardens was conceived by Hadid and the gallery’s curators before her death in March aged 65.

Rarely seen paintings, drawings, calligraphy and digital work will go on display this winter.

Hadid had a long relationship with the Serpentine, becoming a trustee in 1996, and designing the inaugural Serpentine Pavilion in 2000 – her first structure in the UK.

She completed the extension and conversion of a grade II* gunpowder store into a new gallery for the Serpentine in 2013. It is here that the exhibition will be held from December 8 to February 2017.

A statement from the Serpentine said Hadid was “widely regarded as a pioneering and visionary architect”.

“She was also an accomplished artist and highly skilled calligrapher, influenced by Malevich, Tatlin and Rodchenko,” it said.

“Serpentine Galleries presents her rarely seen paintings, drawings – including calligraphy drawings which would later be transformed into architecture – and her visionary digital visual work, all of which echo the lightness and weightlessness of her buildings.”

The news comes as an abridged retrospective of her work opens in Venice, at the 16^th-century Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal. It contains models, paintings, drawings and photographs of built and unbuilt work.

In a 2011 conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, Zaha Hadid said: “I know from my experience that without research and experimentation not much can be discovered. With experimentation, you think you’re going to find out one thing, but you actually discover something else. That’s what I think is really exciting. You discover much more than you bargain for. I think there should be no end to experimentation.”

Meanwhile, Hadid designed the exhibition for a major retrospective of artist Kurt Schwitters which opens in Zurich next month. Kurt Schwitters: Merz will take over an entire floor of the Galerie Gmurzynska from June 12 to September 30.

A statement from the gallery said: “This collaboration results from the idea of an architectural homage by Zaha Hadid to the famous ‘Merz Bau’ of Kurt Schwitters. Having successfully realised a similar project seven years ago, where Hadid transformed Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich into a suprematist space in reference to Kasimir Malevich, this collaborative project pays tribute to the second important artistic influence on Hadid’s work – Kurt Schwitters.”