William

Kentridge

pays

homage

to

Franz

Kafka

in

a

major

Prague

exhibition

at

Kunsthalle

Praha

Kunsthalle Praha presents The Battle Between YES and NO, a large-scale exhibition by William Kentridge, one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Running from 16 April to 7 September, the exhibition will bring together early charcoal films, theatrical installations, recent video works, and sculptures, the exhibition also introduces a new work created specifically for the Kunsthalle. A Letter to Felice (2026) is a tribute to Franz Kafka that anchors the exhibition in its Prague context. Through drawing, animation, opera, and installation, Kentridge articulates his belief in complexity and ambiguity as an antidote to rigid certainty.

Raised in Johannesburg during apartheid, William Kentridge developed an artistic practice shaped by South Africa’s political realities while addressing universal questions of power, memory, responsibility, and hope. Over more than four decades, he has worked across drawing, printmaking, sculpture, performance, film, and opera, developing a distinctive visual language.

The exhibition takes its title from a series of early prints and animations in which Kentridge merges the words “Yes” and “No” to create “Noise”. This gesture captures a defining quality of his work: the exposure of contradictions and the sustained tension between meaning and absurdity, visibility and erasure.