William Kentridge remains a central figure in drawing, film, and theater, with a practice shaped by collage, animation, and public-scale image making.

Let it be said, the studio is a safe space for stupidity. A space where impulses can be given the benefit of the doubt.

We go behind the scenes at rehearsals for William Kentridge’s new staging of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera l’Orfeo

More exciting still is the staging: this marks Glyndebourne’s very first production of the piece, directed by South African visual artist and Olivier Award-winner William Kentridge in his Glyndebourne debut.

We watch a three-screen film set on a sloping wooden stage that rocks side to side, mimicking the rolling of a ship.

We are pleased to launch our first audio guide to accompany William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity in the Underground Gallery.

Du 6 février au 5 avril 2026, la salle Stirling du Palazzo Citterio, à Milan, accueillera un nouveau projet de William Kentridge consacré à Giorgio Morandi.

From January 29 to April 6, 2026, MAXXI's Gallery 5 hosts BREATHE DISSOLVE RETURN, an unprecedented project by William Kentridge and Philip Miller that weaves cinema and live music into an immersive experience inspired by key works by the South African artist.

The year will also feature the return of William Kentridge to MAXXI; a new edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE; an ambitious research project on the relationship between architecture and geopolitics

2025 has been a particularly strong year for the South African artist. His centrality to contemporary art is now taken for granted but a dual museum show as part of a celebration of his 70th birthday is a reminder of how innovative his work is.

Scribble, smudge, repeat: the passage of time and the emergence and dissipation of information conveys the difficult work of experiencing coherence and retaining memory.