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William Kentridge

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Birthplace
Johannesburg
Birth year
1955
Lives in
Johannesburg, South Africa
Works in
Johannesburg, South Africa
Representing galleries
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Current Exhibitions and Events
May, 2013 Directed: The Intersection of Bookart and Film
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
 
Apr, 2013 LE THÉORÈME DE NÉFERTITI
Institut du Monde Arabe
 
Feb, 2013 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
Haus der Kunst
 
Statement

William Kentridge is a South African artist. He is best known for his animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art

William Kentridge Biography

 

1955

 

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa

1973

 

Schooling at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg, South Africa

1974 - 1976

 

BA, Politics/African Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

1976

 

Studied etching, Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa

1981 - 1982

 

Studied mime & theatre at the Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France

1989

 

First animated film in Soho Eckstein series

1992

 

Staged first theatre project in conjunction with Handspring Puppet Company

1998

 

Staged his first opera - Return of Ulysses, Brussels, Belgium

1998

 

European Museum travelling exhibition starts in Brussels, Belgium

 

Lives with wife and family, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

2009

 

Kentridge and Kudryashov: Against the Grain, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

2008

 

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2008

 

The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

2008

 

Haunch of Venison, London, England

2007

 

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2007

 

Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

2006

 

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2005

 

Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athina, Greece

2005

 

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2004

 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003

 

Augarten Contemporary, Wien, Austria

2001

 

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
William Kentridge Recent Editions, In association with David Krut Fine Art, Robert Brown Gallery, Wash. DC, & Gracie Mansion, N.Y.
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck Berlin, Chicago, New York, Vienna, Cape Town

2000

 

The Self is Something Else, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf, Germany
A Double View: Three Exhibitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Third Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Vertical Painting, P.S.1 New York, NY
Marian Goodman Gallery New York, NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery London, England
Annandale Galleries Sydney, Australia
NSISTENT MEMORY: THE Architecture of Time in Video, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, Fl
La Beaute, Beauty in Fabula, Papal Palace Avignon, France

1999

 

Venice Biennale: D'Apertutto, Giardini di Castello and Arsenale Venice
Istanbul Biennale: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul, Turkey
Unfinished History, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Carnegie International 1999/2000 CI 99:00, Carnegie Museum of Art, awarded the Carnegie Medal Pittsburgh
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Projects 68: William Kentridge, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Belgium
Kunstverein Munchen Munich, Germany
Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló
The Drawing Centre New York, NY
Museu d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona Barcelona
Neue Galerie Graz Graz
Serpentine Gallery London
Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels
Kunstverein Munchen Munich
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

1998

 

Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York

1997

 

Delta, Arc, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris Paris
Documenta X, Museum Fredericianum Kassel
Applied Drawings, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg

1996

 

Eidophusikon, Annandale Galleries Sydney

1995

 

Johannesburg Biennale Johannesburg, South Africa
Bernard Jacobson Gallery London, England
Istanbul Biennale Istanbul, Turkey

1994

 

Arts First London, England
Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa

1993

 

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
Retrospective of animated films at Edinbrgh Int. F
Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
Ruth Bloom Gallery Los Angeles, CA

1992

 

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa

1991

 

Newton Art Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa

1990

 

Cassirer Fine Art Johannesburg, South Africa
Museum of Modern Art Oxford

1989

 

Vanessa Devereux Gallery London, England

1988

 

Gallery International Cape Town

1987

 

Cassirer Fine art Johannesburg, South Africa

1986

 

Simon/Neuman Galleries New York, NY
Association of Art Gallery Pretoria

1985

 

Cassirer Fine Art Johannesburg, South Africa

1981

 

Association of Arts Cape Town

1979

 

Market Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Les Arts de la Résistance: Fin de Siécle, Johannesburg, Galerie Michel Luneau Nantes

 

Seventh Havana Biennale: Closer to One Another, Havana

 

Nominee for Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Soho) New York

 

Simunye: We Are One, Adelson Galleries New York

 

Recent Exhibits

William Kentridge participated in these exhibits:

Apr, 2013 The London Original Print Fair
Royal Academy of Arts
 
Mar, 2013 Editions
Goodman Gallery Cape Town
 
Feb, 2013 William Kentridge Poems I Used to Know
Volte Mumbai
 
Dec, 2012 NO, IT IS
Goodman Gallery Cape Town
 
Nov, 2012 I am not me, the horse is not mine
Tate Modern
 
Nov, 2012 William Kentridge Artist Talk
Tate Modern
 
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