Current Events

William Kentridge: History on One Leg

Exhibition

History on One Leg
December 21, 2024 – April 17, 2025

A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town

William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance

Exhibition

More Sweetly Play the Dance
November 21, 2024 – April 20, 2025

Museo Picasso, Málaga

William Kentridge: The True Size of Africa

Group Exhibition

The True Size of Africa
November 9, 2024 – August 17, 2025

Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen

William Kentridge: William Kentridge

Solo exhibition

William Kentridge
October 22, 2024 – July 30, 2025

Fundació Sorigué, Lleida

William Kentridge: Tuning In – Acoustique de l’émotion

Group Exhibition

Tuning In – Acoustique de l’émotion
October 3, 2024 – August 25, 2025

Foundation of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Museum,
Geneva

Forthcoming Events

William Kentridge: Sibyl

Performance

Sibyl
April 11 – 13, 2025

Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei

 

William Kentridge: Wozzeck

Performance

Wozzeck
April 25  – May 16, 2025

Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto

William Kentridge: Sibyl

Performance

Sibyl
May 9 – 10, 2025

GS Arts Center, Seoul

 

William Kentridge: William Kentridge

Exhibition

William Kentridge
June 28, 2025 – April 26, 2026

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton

William Kentridge: From Dawn Till Dusk:  The Shadow in Contemporary Art

Group Exhibition

From Dawn Till Dusk: The Shadow in Contemporary Art
July 3, – November 2, 2025

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo

Exhibition

Listen to the Echo
September 4, 2025 – January 18, 2026

Museum Folkwang, Essen

William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo

Exhibition

Listen to the Echo
September 6, 2025 – January 18, 2026

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

A sporadic record of what happens in the studio, in video, words and images

Idiosyncratic lines of enquiry into particular aspects of studio practice or bodies of work

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William Kentridge: Creative Machines

William Kentridge puts to use a diversity of ‘creative machines’ in making work. He methodologically rethinks drawing, as an unfinished process, a means of collecting and generating iconography, with the aim of maximizing narrative amplitude that goes beyond the limits of graphic representation by resorting to sound and cinematography.

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Stumbling to Utopia

“Why continue with these gestures, with these drawings, these words, in the face of their imminent failure? Because without some idea of utopia, of a rescued world implicit not just in these gestures but in the act of making a drawing, a performance, a speech – without this we feel a gap, a hollow.” WK, 2016

Listening to the Trees Cabinet

Listening to the Trees

An anecdotal account of the making of the book “Waiting for the Sibyl” and a consideration of Kentridge’s ongoing series of tree drawings, by book designer Oliver Barstow

9 WORDS and one more

Making art is a uniquely human endeavour and an artist, the maker of art, is someone who distills what they feel and think about the world and expresses this visually. This requires one to read, to see, to listen, to feel, to question and be curious; to know, and yet to doubt; to have humility and to be brave.

William Kentridge All So Different

All so different from what you expected

Things which are obvious in studio practice, like uncertainty, doubt, provisionality, are not about the COVID pandemic. They are themes I have worked on for many years – but these themes in the outside world have become much more present in these months.

William Kentridge Cursive

Cursive

Cursive is the third set in a series of small bronze glyphs, following “Lexicon” (2017) and “Paragraph II” (2018). The glyphs started as a collection of ink drawings and paper cut-outs, each on a single page from a dictionary.