Current Events

William Kentridge: Wozzeck

Wozzeck
April 25  – May 16, 2025

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

William Kentridge: The True Size of Africa

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

Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen

William Kentridge: William Kentridge

William Kentridge
October 22, 2024 – July 30, 2025

Fundació Sorigué, Lleida

William Kentridge: Tuning In – Acoustique de l’émotion

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: A Natural History of the Studio

A Natural History of the Studio
May 1 – August 1, 2025

Hauser & Wirth
22nd Street and 18th Street, New York

William Kentridge: Sibyl

Sibyl
May 9 – 10, 2025

GS Arts Center, Seoul

 

William Kentridge: The Great Yes, The Great No

The Great Yes, The Great No
May 21-22, 2025

Bergen International Festival
Grieghallen, Bergen

William Kentridge: Oh To Believe in Another World

Oh To Believe in Another World
May 24, 2025

Bergen International Festival
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Grieghallen, Bergen

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
May 29-31, 2025

Kunsten Festival des Arts
KVS Bol, Brussels

 

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
June 5-7, 2025

Printemps des Comediens
Opéra Comédie, Montpellier

 

William Kentridge: The Great Yes, The Great No

The Great Yes, The Great No
June 6-8, 2025

Ruhrfestspiele
Ruhrfestspielhaus Großes Haus, Recklinghausen

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
June 14-15, 2025

Thalia Theater, Hamburg

 

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
June 20-22, 2025

Athens Epidaurus Festival
Peiraios 260, Athens

 

William Kentridge: William Kentridge

William Kentridge
June 28, 2025 – April 26, 2026

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
July 2-3, 2025

Campania Teatro Festival
Teatro Mercadante, Naples

 

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

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

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

William Kentridge: The Great Yes, The Great No

The Great Yes, The Great No
July 12-13, 2025

Festival di Spoleto
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto

William Kentridge: Faustus in Africa!

Faustus in Africa!
August 20-23, 2025

Edinburgh International Festival
The Lyceum, Edinburgh

 

William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo

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

Museum Folkwang, Essen

William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo

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

Unseen footage from the cutting room floor, Episode 3, ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot’, 2024 

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE STUDIO

Hauser & Wirth, New York
May 1 - August 1, 2025

22nd Street - a presentation of the film series ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot’, drawings related to the series and sculptural works.  Exhibition design by #sabinetheunissen
18th Street -  a selection of prints related to various projects, made over the last two decades, at Hauser & Wirth’s dedicated editions space

To mark the opening of the exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Publishers will release the new publication ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot’ which documents the series with stills and dialogue.
OPENING TONIGHT IN TORONTO 

WOZZECK
April 25  – May 16, 2025

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

Composer
Alban Berg

Librettist
Alban Berg

Director
William Kentridge

Co-director
Luc De Wit

Projection designer
Catherine Meyburgh

Set designer
Sabine Theunissen

Costume designer
Greta Goiris

Lighting designer
Urs Schönebaum

Video control
Kim Gunning
PERFORMANCE TONIGHT IN LONDON

OH TO BELIEVE IN ANOTHER WORLD
A film by William Kentridge for Shostakovich Symphony No. 10

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
24 April, 2025

Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Marin Alsop

Director
William Kentridge

Editors
Janus Fouché, Žana Marović, Joshua Trappler

Costume & Puppet Designer
Greta Goiris

Set and Model Designer
Sabine Theunissen

Cinematographer
Duško Marović SASC

Executive Producer
THE OFFICE performing arts + film

Commissioned by
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
OPENING TONIGHT IN TAIPEI 

SIBYL
Taipei Performing Arts Centre
April 11 - 13, 2025

Concept and Director
William Kentridge

Music Director / Composer
Kyle Shepherd

Associate Director / Choral Composer
Nhlanhla Mahlangu

Costume Designer
Greta Goiris

Set Designer
Sabine Theunissen

Lighting Design
Urs Schönebaum

Associate Lighting Design
Elena Gui

Sound Engineering
Zach Williamson

Projection Design
Žana Marović

Cinematography
Duško Marović SASC

Photography
Stella Olivier

Created and performed by
Kyle Shepherd (Piano)
Nhlanhla Mahlangu (Vocalist | Dancer)
Xolisile Bongwana (Vocalist | Dancer)
Thulani Chauke (Dancer)
Teresa Phuti Mojela (Dancer)
Thandazile ‘Sonia’ Rabede (Dancer)
Ayanda Nhlangothi (Vocalist)
Zandile Hlatshwayo (Vocalist)
Siphiwe Nkabinde (Vocalist)
S’busiso Shozi (Vocalist)

Technical Direction
Boyd Design

Production Manager
Brendon Boyd

Technical Director
Carly Levin 

Stage Manager
Meghan Williams

Costume Supervisor
Mathilde Baillarger 

Props Master
Lissy Barnes-Flint

Video Control
Matthew Deinhart

Voice over ‘Starve the Algorithm’
Joanna Dudley

Studio Fabrication & Technical Director
Chris Waldo de Wet

Costume Fabricators
Emmanuelle Erhart, Carlo Di Mascolo, David Engler

Specialist Prop Fabricator
Jonas Lundquist

Scenic Painter
Anaïs Thomas

Studio Assistants
Jacques van Staden, Jessica Jones

Produced by
THE OFFICE performing arts + film

Managing Director
Laurie Cearley
Executive Producer
Elly Obeney
Company Manager
Catherine DeGennaro

Toured in association with Quaternaire
OPENING TONIGHT IN BERKELEY

“The Great Yes, The Great No”
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley
March 14 to 16, 2025

A chamber opera by William Kentridge, commissioned by LUMA Foundation, in partnership with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Creative team
Concept | Director: William Kentridge
Associate Directors: Nhlanhla Mahlangu | Phala O. Phala
Choral Composer: Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Music Director: Tlale Makhene
Dramaturg: Mwenya Kabwe
Costume Design: Greta Goiris
Set Design: Sabine Theunissen
Lighting Design: Urs Schönebaum | Elena Gui
Projection Editing | Compositing: Žana Marović | Janus Fouché | Joshua Trappler
Cinematography: Duško Marović
Video Control: Kim Gunning

Performed and created by
Performers: Xolisile Bongwana, Hamilton Dhlamini, William Harding, Tony Miyambo, Nancy Nkusi, Neil McCarthy
Dancers: Thulani Chauke & Teresa Phuti Mojela
Chorus: Anathi Conjwa, Asanda Hanabe, Zandile Hlatshwayo, Khokho Madlala, Nokuthula Magubane, Mapule Moloi,Nomathamsanqa Ngoma
Musicians: Marika Hughes (Cello), Nathan Koci (Accordion | Banjo), Tlale Makhene (Percussion), Thandi Ntuli (Piano)

Produced by
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
A project of the Centre for the Less Good Idea

Lead commissioner
LUMA Foundation, Arles, France

Co-Commissioners
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami USA; CAL Performances, Berkeley USA; Centre d’Art Battat, Montreal Canada; The Wallis Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills USA

Foundational commissioning support for the development and creation of “The Great Yes, The Great No” provided by Brown Arts Institute, Brown University
Toured in partnership Quaternaire

Support for this performance is provided by The Great Yes, The Great No Council for Kentridge.
Lead Sponsors: The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation; Nadine Tang
Major Sponsors: Bob Ellis (March 15); Janice and Nicholas E. Brathwaite (March 15)
Sponsors: The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation; Divesh & Diksha Makan
Additional support is provided by Helen Berggruen for Five Arts Foundation, John Berggruen, and Diana Nelson and John Atwater
Commissioning support is provided by William and Sakurako Fisher

Video: Workshop for “The Great Yes, The Great No”, Johannesburg 2024

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

Creative Machines Square Crop

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.

STU STU Cabinet Cover Image

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.

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