William Kentridge
   
 


Painter

Animator

Filmmaker

 

 
 

Johannesburg,

South Africa

 


interview

 

 

wkentr@netactive.co.za

 
   
 


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999 Museu d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (survey exhibition) Museum of Modern Art (Project Room), New York: Projects 68 MIT List, Cambridge, Massachusetts Serpentine Gallery, London (survey exhibition) Centre de la Vielle Charite, Marseille (survey exhibition) Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (survey exhibition) Marian Goodman Gallery,Premiere of Stereoscope, animated film at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa Paris Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

1998 The Drawing Centre, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (survey exhibition touring Kunstverein MŸnchen, Munich; MACBA, Barcelona; Serpentine Gallery, London; Vielle Charite, Marseille; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz) Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (survey exhibition)

1997 Applied Drawings, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

1996 Eidophusikon, Annandale Galleries, Sydney

1994 Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

1993 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles 1992 Drawings for Projection, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, travelling to Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London

1991 Five Gouache Collage Heads, Newtown Galleries, Johannesburg 1990 William Kentridge: Drawings and Graphics, Cassirer Fine Art and Gallery on the Market, Johannesburg 1989 Responsible Hedonism, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London

1988 Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg

1987 In the Heart of the Beast, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London Standard Bank Young Artist Award; associated exhibition in Grahamstown touring nationally

1984 Market Theatre Award for New Visions exhibition AA Vita Award for William Kentridge, at Cassirer Fine Art,

1985 Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg South African Arts Association, Pretoria

1985 Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg

1981 Domestic Scenes, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg 1979 Exhibition, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999 La Memoire (1999 phase of La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire), Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome Act 1, (1999 phase of Act 1, Act 2, Act 3), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen 48th International Venice Biennale: d'APERTutto, Giardini di Castello and the Arsenale, Venice 6th Istanbul Biennale: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul Unfinished History, MCA Chicago, Chicago A Sangre y Fuego / No Quarter Given, Espai d'art contemporane di Castello, Castello, Spain Life Cycles, Galerie fŸr Zeitgenšssische Kunst, Leipzig Tachikawa Arts Festival, Tachikawa, Japan CI:99/00 Carnegie International 1999/2000 Artery, various art venues, Cape Town

1998 Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Nominee for Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York Shoot at the Chaos, SPIRAL / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York XXIV Bienal de S‹o Paulo, Sao Paulo Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Cinca Continentes y Una Cuidad, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City

1997 Sexta Bienal de la Habana El Individuo y su Memoria Cittˆ/Nattura: Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea, Villa Mazzante, Rome Documenta X, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa FŽ, New Mexico 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Trade Routes: History and Geography Les Arts de la RŽsistance: Fin de SiŽcle,Johannesburg, Galerie Michel Luneau, Nantes Delta, ARC MusŽe dÕArt Moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris UBU ±101, collaborative exhibition with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown

1996 Simunye: We Are One, Adelson Galleries, New York Faultlines, The Castle, Cape Town 10th Sydney Biennale Jurassic Technologies Revenant Ici et Ailleurs, film section within Inklusion-Exklusion, Graz DonÕt Mess with Mr Inbetween, Culturgest, Lisbon Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica dÕArte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin Colours: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

1995 Africus 1st Johannesburg Biennale: Memory and Geography, collaboration with Doris Bloom Memory and Geography, collaboration with Doris Bloom, Stefania Miscetti Gallery, Rome Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, touring USA and South Africa Mayibuye iAfrika, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London On the Road, Delfina Studio Trust, London 4th Istanbul Biennale Kentridge exhibition Eidophusikon

1994 Trackings: History as Memory, Document and Object, Art First, London Displacements, Block Gallery, North Western University, Chicago Spacex Gallery, University of Exeter, UK

1993 Easing the Passing of the Hours, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 45th Venice Biennale South African group exhibition, In Croc Del Sud

1991 Little Morals, collaboration with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Taking Liberties Gallery, Durban 1990 Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, touring UK

1988 African Encounters, Dome Gallery, New York, touring to Washington DC

1984 Hogarth in Johannesburg, collaboration with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg, touring nationally

1986 Claes Eklundh, William Kentridge, Thomas Lawson, Simon/Neuman Galleries, New York But this is the Reality, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg

1985 Cape Town Triennal Ô85, South African National Gallery, Cape Town Tributaries, Market Theatre precinct; touring Germany

 

SELECTED THEATRE

Theatre productions have been created in association with Handspring Puppet Company, with animated film backdrops created by, and directed by William Kentridge.

1998 Il Ritorno dÕUlisse multi-media opera Performances in Brussels, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich

1997 Ubu and the Truth Commission multi-media theatre production Performances in Weimar, Grahamstown, Avignon, Johannesburg, Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Romainmotier, Hanover, Rungis, Ludwigsberg, Nantes, Kristiansand, Neuchatel, Dijon, Erlangen, Munich, New York Washington, Los Angeles

1995 Faustus in Africa! multi-media theatre production Performances in Weimar Berlin, Grahamstown, Johannesburg, Zurich, Ludwigsburger, Munich, Prague, Stuttgart, Hanover, Basel, London, Remscheid, Gutersloh, Erlangen, Lisbon, Adelaide, Brussels, Bochum, Hanover, Dijon, Jerusalem, Ellwangen, Hamburg, copenhagen, St Polten, Polverigi, Avignon, Seville, Marseille, Rome, Tarbes, toulouse, Strasbourg, Paris, Sochaux, Bourg en Bresse, Chambery

1992 Woyzeck on the Highveld multi-media theatre production Awards for production, set design and direction Performances in Grahamstown, Munich, Antwerp, Toronto, Brussels, Stuttgart, Granada, Glasgow, Bochum, Braunshweig, Berlin, Goteborg, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Adelaide, Wellington, Bogota, Jerusalem, Avignon, and cities in Scandinavia, France, Belgium, Italy

 

SELECTED FILM

1998 ECHO: slide scan bottle, a triptych projection using animated and documentary material 1997 Ubu Tells the Truth, animated film WEIGHINGÉ and WANTING; 6Õ20" animated film

1996 Retrospective of animated films, Festival des Dessins AnimŽ, Brussels Retrospective of animated films, Culturgest, Lisbon History of the Main Complaint, 5Õ50" animated film

1995 Retrospective of animated films, Annecy International Film Festival, Annecy

1994 Felix in Exile, 8Õ43" animated film Another Country, animated music video for Mango Groove; wins Loerie Award Memo, collaborative animated film including live actor

1993 Retrospective of animated films, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old shown at Annecy International Film Festival, Annecy; and subsequently at MOMA, New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1992 Easing the Passing of the Hours, 10Õ computer animated film collaboration

1991 Mine, 3Õ animated film; wins Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old, 9Õ animated film; wins Rembrandt Gold Medal, Cape Town Triennal

1990 Monument, 3Õ animated film; wins Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Directs T&I, 12Õ video fiction Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris shown at ICA, London

1989 Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris, 7Õ animated film 1988 Freedom Square and Back of the Moon, 50Õ co-directed documentary film 1987 Exhibition, 3Õ animated film

1985 Vetkoek/Fete Galante, 2Õ animated film 1984 Salestalk, 30Õ film fiction using actors; in 1985 wins Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York

1981 Howl at the Moon, 40Õ co-directed video fiction; in 1982 wins Red Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York