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Exhibition
I am not me, the horse is not mine
As the part of this Solo Exhibition is the documentary of "The Making of L’Orfeo", that traces the full operatic process, engaging with every layer of production—from conceptual development and rehearsals to staging, music, projection, and technical execution. Conceptualized and edited by Žana Marović
Bozar, Brussels
September 18 2026 -- March 7 2027
Performance, Film with Orchestral Performance
Oh To Believe in Another World
Single channel projection to accompany a live performance of Shostakovitch Symphony No.10 in E Minor by Lucerne Symphony orchestra. The film themes of utopia and historical struggle are set inside what appears to be an abandoned Soviet museum made of cardboard, on the table in the artist’s studio.
Co-edited and composited with Janus Fouché and Joshua Trappler.
Henry Le Boeuf Hall
September 18, 2026
Exhibition
A Nicely Built City
"The Making of Soho 12", a short film showing the process of making the Nicely Built City film for exhibition at the Goodman Gallery.
Goodman Gallery, London
24 September 2026 - 7 November 2026
Exhibition
L'Orfeo
The Greek National Opera presents Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for the first time, in a new production by William Kentridge with a contemporary arrangement by Nico Muhly.
Stavros Niarchos Hall
30 October 2026 -- 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Nov 2026
Performance
The Head & the Load
The Head & the Load explores the role of Africa and Africans in World War I, focusing on the contradictions and paradoxes of colonialism that the war intensified. It highlights the historical invisibility and inaudibility of African experiences during this period.
Co-edited with projection designer Catherine Meyburgh and Janus Fouché
November 12 -- 15, 2026
Performance
Sibyl
A chamber opera, premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, inspired by the myth of the Cumean Sibyl incorporates signature elements of Kentridge’s visionary practice—projection, live performance, recorded music, dance/movement, and shadows cast by the performers against a hand-painted backdrop.
Video editing and Projection design.
DE SINGEL, Belgium
December 12 -- 13, 2026
Exhibition
BREATHE DISSOLVE RETURN
Film-concert by William Kentridge & Philip Miller
A visual and musical experience, inviting the audience to think of history not as a linear narrative, but as a collage of memories, contradictions, and acts of resistance. A vast ribbon of moving images and an enveloping soundscape immerse the viewer in the fragmented memory of history.
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo Rome
29 January 2026 - 6 April 2026
Exhibition, Animation Film
FUGITIVE WORDS
A video work staged entirely in one notebook, its drawing, incidents of figures, text and glyphs play out between the twinned frames of the the bound pages set on a studio desk.
Showing as part of the Solo exhibition by William Kentridge: Sharpen Your Philosophy\
Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
January 29 – March 28, 2026
Performance, Animation Film
O, Quickly Disappearing Photograph
Animation film
WORLD PREMIERE BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
A film about Quaderno musicale di Annalibera by Luigi Dallapiccola
Commissioned by the piano festival “Le Piano Symphonique”
Mirabelle Kajenjeri, Piano
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975)
Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for piano
Konzertsaal, KKL, Lucerne
January 17, 2026
Performance
The Great Yes, The Great No
A Surrealist chamber opera set in march 1941: A cargo ship leaves Marseille for Martinique with, on board, several artists and intellectuals escaping from Vichy, France, led by the Charon, the ferryman of the dead who has now been promoted a captain.
Co-edited with Janus Fouché and Joshua Trappler.
Grand Théâtre de la Ville de, Luxembourg
October 25 – 26, 2025
Berliner Festspiele
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage, Berlin
October 16 – 18, 2025
Festival di Spoleto
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto
July 12-13, 2025
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