iBOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)Mont des Arts
William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine
Solo overview of Kentridge's work from the early 1980s to today: drawings, animated films, sculpture, prints, installations and stage productions.
Gehiago: Brusela
Near the end hangs a 2007 drawing that maps nothing but William Kentridge's own footsteps: the pacing and circling he does around his Johannesburg studio before a drawing begins. His day, the wall text says, starts with tea, tidying up and a list of "the less good ideas".
You walk in through a room built like that studio, full of set models, backdrops, notebooks and videos, then move through sections grouped by stage production rather than date: Gogol's The Nose, Faustus in Africa! (first staged in Brussels in 1995), Waiting for the Sibyl, The Refusal of Time and The Great Yes, The Great No. Some drawings are made straight onto Bozar's walls.
Le Soir called it a journey where every art form interacts, and De Tijd a theatrical trip through his mind and studio. Much of it is film and animation, so allow time. Tickets are €20, €14 under 26, free under 18, or €28 with Jean Brusselmans the same day.
Erredakzioaren aukera
Charcoal drawings erased and redrawn frame by frame, the method behind William Kentridge's animated films, set beside four decades of sculpture, prints, installations and stage productions.
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Parcours d'Atelier
Look for the 2007 drawing in the final room whose lines trace Kentridge pacing and circling his studio, a map of thinking on foot.
I am not me, the horse is not mine
The 2008 installation that names the show mixes stop-motion, shadow play and archive footage around Gogol's official whose nose walks off dressed as a superior.
The Refusal of Time
Look for the breathing mechanical sculptures and big projected charcoal drawings from his project on how empires wired the world to one clock.
The Sibyl's pages
Drawings made across thousands of encyclopedia and dictionary pages, the swirling leaves behind his chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl.
A ship full of exiles
The Great Yes, The Great No puts Breton, Lévi-Strauss, Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker on one 1941 boat to Martinique, captained by Charon.
Norentzat
- Bakarrik
- Xehetasun-zaleak
- Kanpoko bisitariak
Haurrekin
Under-18s get in free, and the same ticket covers Basil Al-Rawi's VR piece House of Memory that day, which Bozar recommends from age 12.
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- William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mineWilliam Kentridge, Still from Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, Episode 5: As If, 2024. © William Kentridge, DACS 2024, courtesy the artist, Goodman Gallery, Galleria Lia Rumma and Hauser & Wirth
- Tapta meets JuddDonald Judd, Untitled, © Judd Foundation / SABAM Belgium; Tapta, Découper/assembler/appuyer, n.d., Maurice Verbaet Collection. Photo: Cathy Christiaen (LAAC Dunkirk, 2022)
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- Magritte Museum (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)EmDee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)iMahesh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0