William Kentridge, Still from Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, Episode 6: A Harvest of Devotion, 2022, ©️ William Kentridge

Grand Invité

William Kentridge

William Kentridge is our first Grand Invité. Every season, we invite an artist to help shape the programme: with an exhibition, but also by working with a new generation of artists. Kentridge is doing this with The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an artistic workshop in Johannesburg focused on the creative process.

Browse through all the events related to William Kentridge below. The Films programme will follow in August.

Keep an eye on this page for interviews, articles and more news about Kentridge.

Related events

Exhibitions

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

18 Sept.'26 →
7 Mar.'27

William Kentridge

I am not me, the horse is not mine

Films

Art & Film

18 + 19
Sept.'26

Open air cinema: William Kentridge short films

Concerts

Film concert

Highly Recommended

18 Sept.'26
- 20:00

Belgian National Orchestra, Aadland & Gatto - William Kentridge

Oh to Believe in Another World

Talks & Debates

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

19 Sept.'26
- 20:00

Meet the Artist: William Kentridge

Performances

Highly Recommended

28 Nov.'26
- 20:00

William Kentridge & The Centre for the Less Good Idea

A Defence of the Less Good Idea + Sounding Pictures

Performances

Contemporary Art

12 + 13
Dec.'26

SIBYL - William Kentridge

Concerts

14 Apr.'27
- 20:00

William Kentridge, Matthias Goerne & Markus Hinterhäuser

Winterreise
I make drawings and sometimes the drawings are filmed and become animated films. Sometimes there are performers in front of the animated film and they become theatre or opera. So it becomes a drawing in four dimensions.
- William Kentridge

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William Kentridge: “The world itself is irrational”

Curator Tarek Abou El Fetouh met the South African artist to discuss Brussels, collaboration and the ideas that continue to drive Kentridge’s work.

Tarek Abou El Fetouh