Journal

A sporadic record of what happens in William Kentridge’s studio, in video, words and images

Remove not the old landmark

Fugitive Words, 2024
Single channel HD video
8 min 33 sec

Animation
William Kentridge

Editing
Žana Marović

Music
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 97
“Archduke”: III. Andante cantabile
Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim

Video: Excerpt from “Fugitive Words” currently showing as part of the exhibition:
William Kentridge “History on One Leg”
December 21, 2024 – April 17, 2025
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town

A browsable selection of Kentridge’s notebooks made over the past fifteen years, shown alongside a new flipbook film, tools, materials and ephemera which focus on the process of making work in the studio.

Curated by
Josh Ginsburg
William Kentridge

Remove not the old landmark

Fugitive Words, 2024
Single channel HD video
8 min 33 sec

Animation
William Kentridge

Editing
Žana Marović

Music
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 97
“Archduke”: III. Andante cantabile
Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim

Video: Excerpt from “Fugitive Words” currently showing as part of the exhibition:
William Kentridge “History on One Leg”
December 21, 2024 – April 17, 2025
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town

A browsable selection of Kentridge’s notebooks made over the past fifteen years, shown alongside a new flipbook film, tools, materials and ephemera which focus on the process of making work in the studio.

Curated by
Josh Ginsburg
William Kentridge
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OPENING TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES

“The Great Yes, The Great No”
The Wallis Center
for Performing Arts
Beverley Hills
February 5 to 8, 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 SASC
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.

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

This production is made possible by generous support from:
Brenda R. Potter
Sakurako and William Fisher Family
Roy Cockrum Foundation
Joan Selwyn and Marc Selwyn, Geof and Laura Wyatt in Memory of Paul Selwyn
South Coast Plaza

Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Video: Performance at LUMA Arles, July 2024

OPENING TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES

“The Great Yes, The Great No”
The Wallis Center
for Performing Arts
Beverley Hills
February 5 to 8, 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 SASC
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.

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

This production is made possible by generous support from:
Brenda R. Potter
Sakurako and William Fisher Family
Roy Cockrum Foundation
Joan Selwyn and Marc Selwyn, Geof and Laura Wyatt in Memory of Paul Selwyn
South Coast Plaza

Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Video: Performance at LUMA Arles, July 2024
...

Making the drawing “Enough” (2025)
Paint, Indian ink, charcoal and collage on canvas
250 x 242 cm

Part of the current exhibition, “To Cross One More Sea” at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
25 January - 20 March, 2025

Making the drawing “Enough” (2025)
Paint, Indian ink, charcoal and collage on canvas
250 x 242 cm

Part of the current exhibition, “To Cross One More Sea” at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
25 January - 20 March, 2025
...

OPENING TODAY

“To Cross One More Sea”
William Kentridge
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
25 January - 20 March, 2025

Video: Extract from “To Cross One More Sea”, 2024
Three channel HD film installation,
two megaphone speakers on tripods
19 min 10 sec

Editor
Janus Fouché

Associate Editors
Joshua Trappler
Žana Marovič

Composers
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Tlale Makhene

Music created and performed by:

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)

Sound Recording
Gavan Eckhart

OPENING TODAY

“To Cross One More Sea”
William Kentridge
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
25 January - 20 March, 2025

Video: Extract from “To Cross One More Sea”, 2024
Three channel HD film installation,
two megaphone speakers on tripods
19 min 10 sec

Editor
Janus Fouché

Associate Editors
Joshua Trappler
Žana Marovič

Composers
Nhlanhla Mahlangu
Tlale Makhene

Music created and performed by:

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)

Sound Recording
Gavan Eckhart
...

“Paper Procession IV”, 2025
Painted steel, Edition of 5

Installed in the gardens of @goodman_gallery Johannesburg, in advance of the opening of “To Cross One More Sea” on Saturday the 25th of January, 2025.

“Paper Procession IV”, 2025
Painted steel, Edition of 5

Installed in the gardens of @goodman_gallery Johannesburg, in advance of the opening of “To Cross One More Sea” on Saturday the 25th of January, 2025.
...

‘William Kentridge: Creative Machines’
A Cabinet by Noémia Herdade-Gomes and Francisco Providência

Herdade-Gomes and Providência see Kentridge’s rotating sculptures, such as ‘Construction for Waiting for the Sibyl (Tree / Typewriter)’ as a “playful trivialisation of a ‘miracle’ “ and describe “the surprising epiphany of chaos transformed into order” as the observer “experiences the pleasure of witnessing a ‘miracle’, which becomes as predictable as it is false.”

Explore the second series of ‘Creative Machines’, now live on Kentridge Studio website:
https://www.kentridge.studio/william-kentridge-creative-machines/

‘William Kentridge: Creative Machines’
A Cabinet by Noémia Herdade-Gomes and Francisco Providência

Herdade-Gomes and Providência see Kentridge’s rotating sculptures, such as ‘Construction for Waiting for the Sibyl (Tree / Typewriter)’ as a “playful trivialisation of a ‘miracle’ “ and describe “the surprising epiphany of chaos transformed into order” as the observer “experiences the pleasure of witnessing a ‘miracle’, which becomes as predictable as it is false.”

Explore the second series of ‘Creative Machines’, now live on Kentridge Studio website:
https://www.kentridge.studio/william-kentridge-creative-machines/
...

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Dada Masilo - a remarkable dancer and choreographer; a fiery, gentle being.  After many years of collaboration, we will miss her creativity, her playfulness and her grace. Farewell, dear Dada.

Photo: Detail from image by Stella Olivier

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Dada Masilo - a remarkable dancer and choreographer; a fiery, gentle being. After many years of collaboration, we will miss her creativity, her playfulness and her grace. Farewell, dear Dada.

Photo: Detail from image by Stella Olivier
...

The studio in repose

The studio in repose ...

“History on One Leg”
William Kentridge
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town

December 21, 2024 – April 17, 2025

A browsable selection of Kentridge’s notebooks made over the past fifteen years, shown alongside a new flipbook film, tools, materials and ephemera which focus on the process of making work in the studio.

Curators:
Josh Ginsburg
William Kentridge

Production: 
János Cserháti

Fabrication and installation:
Kyle Morland

Notebook production coordinators:
Jessica Jones
Anne McIlleron

Handpainted wall phrases:
Damon Garstang
Claire Zinn

Parcours d’atelier wall mural:
Keren Setton

Printer programmer:
Mitchell Gilbert Messina

“History on One Leg”
William Kentridge
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town

December 21, 2024 – April 17, 2025

A browsable selection of Kentridge’s notebooks made over the past fifteen years, shown alongside a new flipbook film, tools, materials and ephemera which focus on the process of making work in the studio.

Curators:
Josh Ginsburg
William Kentridge

Production:
János Cserháti

Fabrication and installation:
Kyle Morland

Notebook production coordinators:
Jessica Jones
Anne McIlleron

Handpainted wall phrases:
Damon Garstang
Claire Zinn

Parcours d’atelier wall mural:
Keren Setton

Printer programmer:
Mitchell Gilbert Messina
...