WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: Listen to the Echo

299pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Steidl, Göttingen, 2025

ISBN: 9783969994757

Co-published with Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

On the occasion of William Kentridge's 70th birthday, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Museum Folkwang dedicated a major double exhibition to Kentridge's interdisciplinary practice. 

This catalogue includes works from four decades: early graphic series on apartheid and its end; drawings and films from the series "Drawings for Projection" (1989–2020); the video installation More Sweetly play the Dance (2015); the large-format woodcut series "Triumphs and Laments" (2016–2019), as well as the recent three-channel film installation To Cross One More Sea, and new sculptures from the series “Paper Procession”. The book also features The Centre for the Less Good Idea, a Johannesburg-based performance incubation space co-founded by Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace.

Includes contributions by Mailena Mallach, Stephanie Buck, Tobias Burg, Nike Bätzner, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Ashraf Jamal, Mathias Wagner, Martin Buhlig and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, as well as William Kentridge in conversation with Stephanie Buck, Tobias Burg, Mailena Mallach and Hilke Wagner, and Bronwyn Lace in conversation with Kathi Loch.

William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) is internationally acclaimed for his artworks, theater and opera productions. His method combines drawing and erasing, tearing, gestural painting, collage, weaving, casting, writing, film, performance, music, theatre and collaborative practices.