George Condo will now be represented jointly by Sprüth Magers & Skarstedt.
Sprüth Magers has represented George Condo for over 40 years, an ongoing partnership that has produced 35 exhibitions to date across the gallery’s locations in Cologne, Munich, Berlin, London, Los Angeles and New York. Skarstedt previously represented George Condo from 2004 to 2019, presenting exhibitions of his work at its New York and London locations.
Condo is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris. In 2019, Condo was selected to participate in the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Other noteworthy exhibitions include The Mad and the Lonely, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Hydra (2024), Humanoïdes, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2023), The Picture Gallery, Long Museum, Shanghai (2021), George Condo at Cycladic, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2018), The Way I Think, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (both 2017), and Mental States, New Museum, New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Hayward Gallery, London (all 2011).
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to once again partner with Per Skarstedt. Both galleries look forward to this next chapter of collaboration, united in their admiration for and longstanding commitment to George Condo’s art.
About the artist
George Condo (*1957) folds centuries of art-historical language into a volatile, unmistakably his own visual vocabulary. Grotesque, tragicomic figures—at once monstrous and magnetic—surface through echoes of Venetian and Dutch painting, Cubism, Surrealism and Pop. Based in New York, he has shown with the gallery for more than three decades, beginning with a landmark solo exhibition in 1984 at Galerie Monika Sprüth.
Condo’s works are not quotations but transformations. Baroque light, Florentine cangiante, the drama of Caravaggio and the charge of modernism all feed a painterly project that explodes familiar pictorial structures and reconfigures the field of contemporary painting. He terms this restless synthesis “Artificial Realism.”
Across painting, drawing, collage and sculpture, Condo pushes the terrain between abstraction and figuration. His “psychological Cubism” builds figures from overlapping emotional states rather than shifting viewpoints.
Threading through it all is a dystopian yet strangely empathetic vision of humanity. Cartoonish portraits, grotesque grimaces and disjointed bodies collide in dark psychological landscapes where beauty and horror entwine—and damaged figures meet the chaos of their world with unsettling composure.
