Renowned South African artist William Kentridge’s latest project is a dynamic, intimate archive that seamlessly blends mediums to reveal his creative journey, memory and collaborations.
For more than four decades, William Kentridge has cultivated a protean artistic practice that defies easy categorisation. His work navigates between drawing, animation, theatre, opera and installation, creating a complex, layered world in which memory, history and identity intertwine.
Within this vast body of work, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot (2025) stands out as both a culmination and an intimate archive — a book and film series that invites the reader and viewer into the artist’s studio, his mind and his collaborations.
The title itself — derived from a surreal image of Kentridge’s head replaced by a coffee pot — encapsulates the blend of humour, absurdity and self-reflection that permeates the project. As Kentridge revealed in a voice recording sent during the book’s production, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is about “not knowing exactly where the next page will lead, but trusting that something, in its own way, will connect”.