Overview

• The Museum Folkwang retrospective opened with the artist present and links to a 25–26 September Essener Philharmoniker concert presenting his Shostakovich film as a multimedia event.
• Dresden launched with the public procession “Foot Power,” featuring HfBK students, Banda Comunale and the Singasylum choir, using props devised with Bronwyn Lace and the Centre for the Less Good Idea and acquired as a work by the SKD friends association.
• At the Albertinum, the video installations “Oh To Believe in Another World” (2022) and “More Sweetly Play the Dance” (2015) are shown alongside large studies for the Fürstenzug, while the Kupferstich-Kabinett surveys experimental prints and the Puppentheatersammlung debuts new “Pepper’s Ghost” showcases by the Centre.
• Processions frame Kentridge’s longstanding engagement with migration, protest, mourning and the legacies of apartheid, colonialism and extractive labor.
• The exhibitions run on staggered schedules: Folkwang through 18 January 2026, Albertinum through 4 January 2026, Kupferstich-Kabinett through 15 February 2026 and Puppentheatersammlung through 28 June 2026.