Poster The Battle Between YES and NO William Kentridge x Kunsthalle Praha

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The poster was created for the exhibition The Battle Between YES and NO at Kunsthalle Praha, presenting the work of one of the most distinctive contemporary artists. Kentridge works across drawing, film, text, and performance, exploring themes of memory, language, history, and personal and collective experience.

The exhibition title refers to his early prints and animations in which the words YES and NO merge into NOISE. This play with meaning and the instability of language is central to Kentridge’s work – instead of fixed answers, it opens space for interpretation, doubt, and imagination.

The poster captures this approach, functioning not just as exhibition material but as a visual trace of Kentridge’s process – layered, shifting, and open-ended.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge (*1955, Johannesburg) is one of the most influential contemporary artists. His multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, printmaking, film, animation, theatre, and installation, exploring the relationship between image, time, and memory.

Deeply shaped by the political and historical context of South Africa, particularly apartheid, his work addresses themes of power, injustice, collective memory, and human responsibility. He often works through fragmentation, repetition, and shifting meaning.

Drawing remains central to his practice as a process in flux – images are never fixed but constantly erased, redrawn, and transformed. This openness gives his work a distinctive and enduring relevance.