William Kentridge

William Kentridge

(b. 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg.)

William Kentridge studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He was a founding member of the Free Filmmakers Co-operative in 1988. In 1998, a major retrospective exhibition opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. A second exhibition, co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, took place in 2001. Kentridge has participated in a number of international biennales and in Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002). He has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Kaiserring Prize (2003), the Carnegie Prize, the Carnegie International (2000), Standard Bank Young Artist Award (1987), and the Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction (1982).

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2013
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Refuse the Hour, Festival Quartier d'Ete, Paris; ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna
Refuse the Hour, ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
Paris Cinema Festival, Paris
Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, Japan
2012
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
William Kentridge: ¿No se unirá usted al baile?, CAC Málaga, Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine, Tate Modern, London, UK
2011
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Other Faces, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2010
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna
2009
William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2008
William Kentridge: 10 Tapestries, Philadelphia Museum of Art

RECENT GROUP SHOWS

2013
DEEP FEELINGS. From antiquity to now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris
Paisaje. Revision de un genero (Landscape. A revision of a genre,) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico
Le Pont,” Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Marseille
Festival Paris Cinema, Forum des images, Paris
2012
Documenta (13),Kassel, Germany
ARTandPRESS, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (through 2013); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Thresholds, Liverpool Biennial
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Center of Photography, New York
Video Musics III: Floating Oceans, performance by Alexis Gideon with films by William Kentridge, New Museum, New York
2011
El intervalo luminoso: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Regress/Progess, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
William Kentridge & Ingeborg Lüscher, Campagne Premiere, Berlin
Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2010
Dystopia, UOliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung, South Africa; Jan Colle Galerij, Ghent, Belgium
Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy
Wünsche und Erwerbungen - Zeitgenössische Zeichnung, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Le Meilleur des Mondes, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2009
Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Play – Film and Video," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2008
Peripheral Look and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Sydney Biennale: Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia
2007
StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary. Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
Zona Franca – Free Zone, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Interview with William Kentridge on Sunday Arts.
Interactive feature on the MoMA website: William Kentridge Five Themes.
Special Exhibition Videos from the MoMA website.

William Kentridge Exhibitions

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William Kentridge Publications

Carnets d'Egypte
William Kentridge

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