William Kentridge's new 9-episode series, Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, will premiere in Venice in an installation curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Shot during, and in the aftermath of, the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic, and completed in 2023, these works will be viewed in a unique, concentrated environment that partially recreates Kentridge's Johannesburg studio where they were made.

"Filming began in the first lockdown and the studio mimicked the closed spaces of Covid", states William Kentridge, "but the studio is also an enlarged head, a chamber for thoughts and reflections where all the drawings, photos and detritus on the studio walls become these thoughts".