Hauser & Wirth has announced its representation of Conny Maier, in collaboration with Société Berlin.
German artist Conny Maier lives and works in Portugal. Shaped by the distinctly different environments of her home country and the place she now calls home, her multi-perspectival practice forges new relationships between landscape, climate and human psychology, unfolding through climactic scenes that merge geological distress with instinctual urges. Maier has attracted international attention for bold, brawny, assertively hued paintings populated by misshapen figures, interspecies entanglements, and symbolically charged motifs. Symbolic objects—flowers, animals, offerings and ritual elements—appear throughout her paintings and sculptures, acting as anchors for the emotional and psychological currents her work traces.
In exploring the complexities of humankind’s relationship with nature, she infuses vivid, seemingly paradisiacal landscapes with a sense of latent unease, reflecting the ever-shifting equilibrium between human intention and contemporary ecological reality. With their graphic precision and tendency toward narrative, Maier’s tableaux reflect a particularly keen awareness of the patterns that emerge from—and further reshape—the moments in which natural and manmade orders converge. Maier’s art invites reflectionnon the systems we build and the forces that challenge them.
Marc Payot, President at Hauser & Wirth, says,
‘We are delighted to welcome Conny Maier to Hauser & Wirth, to engage with the vivid world she is creating—a realm she populates with creatures and objects born from her own imagination but somehow familiar and powerfully resonant. In its rawness and poetic impact, her work seems to take its place with that of such gallery artists as Maria Lassnig and Erna Rosenstein, and a younger cohort that includes Angel Otero and Firelei Báez. We look forward to sharing Conny’s universe with ever wider audiences worldwide and to introducing her to our West Coast friends when we present a solo stand of her latest paintings at Frieze LA.’
This work will be presented at Hauser’s Frieze Los Angeles stand in February 2026 © Conny Maier. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Société, Berlin Photo: Trevor Good
Daniel Wichelhaus, Société founder and CEO, commented,
‘It has been deeply exciting to be a partner in Conny Maier’s remarkable journey, and I am thrilled that Société will join forces with Hauser & Wirth to shape the next chapter of her career.’
About the artist
Conny Maier has developed a unique practice outside formal ‘trained’ structures and refined her approach to artmaking through years of independent experimentation. Her wide-ranging and voracious reading habit—what she describes as a form of exploration—frequently informs the symbolic and psychological framework of her imagery, drawing ideas from philosophy, ecology, literature and everyday observation. Through carefully structured scenes and a distinctive handling of form, she gives shape to questions of balance and interdependence, frequently placing human and non-human figures in shared states of vulnerability or friction.
Maier has presented work in numerous solo exhibitions across Europe. Recent highlights include ‘Drowning’ at Société, Berlin (2024); ‘Beautiful Disasters’ at the Langen Foundation, Neuss, curated by Udo Kittelmann (2023–24); ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’ at De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg (2022); and ‘Feels like rabies’ at Société, Berlin (2022). Her work has appeared at major fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Unlimited, Frieze London, Art Basel Paris, ARCO Madrid and Art Cologne, among others. She has been featured in group exhibitions at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; MUDEC, Milan; Palais Populaire, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Villa Schöningen, Potsdam; Neue Galerie Gladbeck; and Sprüth Magers, London. In 2021, Maier was selected as one of Deutsche Bank’s Artists of the Year, with dedicated exhibitions at Palais Populaire, Berlin and Museo delle Culture (MUDEC), Milan the following year.
Maier’s work is represented in notable public and private collections, including the Boros Collection (Berlin), Deutsche Bank Collection (Frankfurt), Hildebrand Collection (Leipzig), Kistefos Museum (Norway), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and the Alkar Contemporary Collection (Bilbao).
