William Kentridge Calendar
Current Events




Group Exhibition
The True Size of Africa
November 9, 2024 – August 17, 2025
Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen


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


Performance
The Great Yes, The Great No
March 14 – 16, 2025
Zellerbach Hall, CalPerformances, Berkeley


Performance
Wozzeck
April 25 – May 16, 2025
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto





Past Events

Past EventPerformance
The Great Yes, The Great No
February 5 – 8, 2025
Brad Goldsmith Theater, The Wallis Center, Beverly Hills

Past EventPerformance
The Great Yes, The Great No
December 5 – 8, 2024
US Première
Arsht Center, Miami


Past EventPerformance
Oh To Believe in Another World
October 18-19, 2024
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona


Past EventSolo exhibition
A Shadow of a Shadow
September 28 – December 8, 2024
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
Bait Al Serkal Arts Square


Past EventPerformance
The Great Yes, The Great No
July 16 – 18, 2024
Austrian Première
Impultanz Festival
Burgtheater, Vienna

conversationPast Event
William Kentridge & Homi K. Bhabha in Conversation
July 10, 2024
La Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers
LUMA Foundation, Arles

Past EventPerformance
The Great Yes, The Great No
July 7 – 10, 2024
WORLD PREMIÈRE
Grande Halle Ouest
Luma Foundation, Arles
in partnership with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence




Group ExhibitionPast Event
Life in Print: William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso
May 10 – December 29, 2024





ExhibitionPast Event
The Refusal of Time
February 28 – September 1, 2024
Louisiana Museum
Humlebæk, Denmark

Past EventFilm Festival
11 Drawings for Projection, Journey to the Moon & Second-hand Reading
February 27 – March 3, 2024

BiennalePast Event
More Sweetly Play the Dance
January 25 – 28, 2024
EVI Lichtungen
International Light Art Biennale
BWV Wohnquartier, Hildesheim


Lecture SeriesPast Event
A Natural History of the Studio
January 17 – February 21, 2024
Slade Lecture Series
University of Oxford
View recording

Past EventPerformance
Oh To Believe in Another World
December 2, 2023
Wiener Konzerthaus
Vienna, Austria

Past EventSolo exhibition
What Have They Done with All the Air?
November 25, 2023 – January 20, 2024


conversationPast Event
On the Making of Oh To Believe in Another World
December 1, 2023
Auditorium, Die Angewandte
Vienna

Past EventPerformance
Oh To Believe in Another World
November 18 – 19, 2023
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
HK City Hall Concert Hall




Past EventSolo exhibition
Oh To Believe in Another World
September 13 – October 21, 2023
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Past EventSolo exhibition
William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
June 25 – September 10, 2023
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Audrey Jones Beck Building






conversationPast Event
Forms of Life: William Kentridge & Judith Butler in Conversation
March 16, 2023

conversationPast Event
Arion Artist Talk: William Kentridge & Adam Hochschild
March 11, 2023
Arion Press | Grabhorn Institute, San Francisco
View recording


Past EventFilm Festival
Orchestrating Time : The Films of William Kentridge
09 March – 02 April, 2023
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley


conversationPast Event
William Kentridge and Walter Murch in Conversation
February 3, 2023
SO | The Academy for the Less Good Idea, Maboneng
View recording

Past EventPerformance
The Head & the Load
December 1 – 3, 2022
Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami
presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center


Past Eventlecture
To What End?
November 18, 2022
Barbro Osher Theater
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
View recording

Past EventPerformance
Houseboy
November 17 – 20, 2022
Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles

conversationPast Event
The Un-Private Collection: William Kentridge + Claudia Rankine
November 13, 2022
Zipper Hall at The Colburn School, Los Angeles
View recording


Past Eventlecture
Finding the Less Good Idea
November 8, 2022
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
in association with the Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee
View recording

conversationPast Event
William Kentridge and Samira Ahmed in Conversation
November 3, 2022
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts, London



Past EventPerformance
Ursonate
September 28, 2022
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts, London


Past Eventlecture
Words, Ah Yes, Words: Text and Image
September 22, 2022
The Rothschild Foundation Lecture
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts, London



Past EventSolo exhibition
William Kentridge: Tapestry, drawing, etching, bronze film
July 5 – 23, 2022



Past EventPerformance
Oh To Believe In Another World
June 29 – 30, 2022
Teatro Grande del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Pompeii

Past EventPerformance
Oh To Believe In Another World
June 15 – 16, 2022
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne





Group ExhibitionPast Event
Espressioni. L’Epilogo
April 24 – July 17, 2022
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli – Torino





Group ExhibitionPast Event
From South Africa: Santu Mofokeng, William Kentridge, Banele Khoza
February 19 – May 1, 2022



Group ExhibitionPast Event
Expired: Kinetismus: 100 Years of Art & Electricity
February 22 – June 19, 2022



Past EventSolo exhibition
Expired: William Kentridge: That Which We Do Not Remember
January 22 – November 30, 2022

Group ExhibitionPast Event
Feeling the Stones: The First Ad-Diriyah Biennial
December 10, 2021 – March 11, 2022
JAX district, Ad Diriyah, Riyadh














Group ExhibitionPast Event
City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium
May 22 – July 11, 2021





Past EventSolo exhibition
Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings To Work
October 23, 2020 – August 1, 2021




Online lecturePast Event
Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture Series for University of Pennsylvania
October 2, 2020


Online conversationPast Event
Conversation with Ruti Direktor for Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
September 13, 2020
