William Kentridge Calendar
Current Events
Forthcoming Events
Performance
Oh To Believe in Another World
February 13, 2026
Dresdner Philharmonie
Kulturpalast Konzertsaal, Dresden
Past Events
The Great Yes, The Great No
October 16 – 18, 2025
Berliner Festspiele
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage, Berlin
Oh To Believe in Another World
October 9 – 12, 2025
Philharmonie Paris
Salle de conférence – Philharmonie, Paris
Oh To Believe in Another World
September 25 & 26, 2025
Essen Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfried Krupp Hall, Essen
Oh To Believe in Another World
September 19 – 20, 2025
Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
The Great Yes, The Great No
July 12-13, 2025
Festival di Spoleto
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto
Unhappen Unhappen Unhappen – Pepper’s Ghost Dioramas
June 28 – July 13, 2025
Ex Battistero della Manna d’Oro, Spoleto
Pensieri Fuggitivi / Fugitive Thoughts
June 27 – July 13, 2025
Palazzo Collicola Arte Visive, Spoleto
The Great Yes, The Great No
June 6-8, 2025
Ruhrfestspiele
Ruhrfestspielhaus Großes Haus, Recklinghausen
Oh To Believe in Another World
May 24, 2025
Bergen International Festival
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Grieghallen, Bergen
A Natural History of the Studio
May 1 – August 1, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
22nd Street and 18th Street, New York
Wozzeck
April 25 – May 16, 2025
Canadian Opera Company
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
Oh To Believe in Another World
April 24, 2025
Philharmonia Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
The Great Yes, The Great No
February 5 – 8, 2025
Brad Goldsmith Theater, The Wallis Center, Beverly Hills
Oh To Believe in Another World
December 5-7, 2024
New York Philharmonic
Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, New York
The True Size of Africa
November 9, 2024 – August 17, 2025
Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen
I am not me, the horse is not mine
October 24, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Tuning In – Acoustique de l’émotion
October 3, 2024 – August 25, 2025
Foundation of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Museum,
Geneva
A Shadow of a Shadow
September 28 – December 8, 2024
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
Bait Al Serkal Arts Square
The Great Yes, The Great No
July 16 – 18, 2024
Austrian Première
Impultanz Festival
Burgtheater, Vienna
William Kentridge & Homi K. Bhabha in Conversation
July 10, 2024
La Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers
LUMA Foundation, Arles
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
Life in Print: William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso
May 10 – December 29, 2024
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot
April 17 – November 24, 2024
11 Drawings for Projection, Journey to the Moon & Second-hand Reading
February 27 – March 3, 2024
More Sweetly Play the Dance
January 25 – 28, 2024
EVI Lichtungen
International Light Art Biennale
BWV Wohnquartier, Hildesheim
William Kentridge & Judith Butler in Conversation
January 25, 2024
A Natural History of the Studio
January 17 – February 21, 2024
Slade Lecture Series
University of Oxford
View recording
What Have They Done with All the Air?
November 25, 2023 – January 20, 2024
Oh To Believe in Another World
November 18 – 19, 2023
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
HK City Hall Concert Hall
William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
June 25 – September 10, 2023
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Audrey Jones Beck Building
Forms of Life: William Kentridge & Judith Butler in Conversation
March 16, 2023
Arion Artist Talk: William Kentridge & Adam Hochschild
March 11, 2023
Arion Press | Grabhorn Institute, San Francisco
View recording
Orchestrating Time : The Films of William Kentridge
09 March – 02 April, 2023
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley
William Kentridge and Walter Murch in Conversation
February 3, 2023
SO | The Academy for the Less Good Idea, Maboneng
View recording
The Head & the Load
December 1 – 3, 2022
Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami
presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center
To What End?
November 18, 2022
Barbro Osher Theater
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
View recording
The Un-Private Collection: William Kentridge + Claudia Rankine
November 13, 2022
Zipper Hall at The Colburn School, Los Angeles
View recording
Finding the Less Good Idea
November 8, 2022
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
in association with the Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee
View recording
William Kentridge and Samira Ahmed in Conversation
November 3, 2022
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts, London
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy
September 24 – December 11, 2022
Words, Ah Yes, Words: Text and Image
September 22, 2022
The Rothschild Foundation Lecture
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre
Royal Academy of Arts, London
William Kentridge: Tapestry, drawing, etching, bronze film
July 5 – 23, 2022
Oh To Believe In Another World
June 29 – 30, 2022
Teatro Grande del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Pompeii
Espressioni. L’Epilogo
April 24 – July 17, 2022
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli – Torino
From South Africa: Santu Mofokeng, William Kentridge, Banele Khoza
February 19 – May 1, 2022
I am not me, the horse is not mine
March 26 – June 26, 2022
Expired: Kinetismus: 100 Years of Art & Electricity
February 22 – June 19, 2022
Expired: William Kentridge: That Which We Do Not Remember
January 22 – November 30, 2022
Feeling the Stones: The First Ad-Diriyah Biennial
December 10, 2021 – March 11, 2022
JAX district, Ad Diriyah, Riyadh
City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium
May 22 – July 11, 2021
Making Prints: Selected Editions 1998 – 2021
March 16 – April 17, 2021
William Kentridge: Universal Archive
January 5 – May 22, 2021
Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings To Work
October 23, 2020 – August 1, 2021
That Which Is Not Drawn
October 9, 2020 – February 21, 2021
Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture Series for University of Pennsylvania
October 2, 2020
