George Condo
The Mad and The Lonely
Book launch and conversation between George Condo and Dakis Joannou, moderated by Massimiliano Gioni
Strand Book Store at Union Square, New York
March 25, 2026
7pm

Join George Condo at Strand Books for a launch event discussing his new catalog, The Mad and the Lonely. The catalog documents Condo’s 2024 exhibition The Mad and the Lonely, the site-specific installation at the DESTE Foundation’s Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra in Greece, which included a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist’s long career and recontextualized in the storied space. With a vivid 40-page leporello, this square hardcover book includes a text by Dakis Joannou and an essay by Condo himself that probes the many sites and sources of inspiration for The Mad and the Lonely.

George Condo
Pastels
January 29–March 1, 2025
New York

George Condo’s forthcoming two-part exhibition – opening at Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York City – exclusively offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and limitless inventive drive in the medium of pastel on paper. Both galleries will present new works in which Condo pushes the limits of improvisation – spontaneously employing gesso, fields of color, and gestural pastel without any preparatory sketches – to delve deep into the challenges of expressing various states of the human psyche. Condo relies upon abstraction to reflect the fragmented, elusive nature of thought and feeling.

GO FIGURE!?
Henni Alftan, John Baldessari, Cao Fei, George Condo, Diane Dal-Pra, Thomas Demand, Alex Foxton, Lenz Geerk, Elizabeth Glaessner, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Oscar yi Hou, Gary Hume, Clementine Keith-Roach, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jo Messer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Scheibitz, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Andro Wekua
May 19–May 26, 2021

GO FIGURE!? is an online exhibition in collaboration with Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung. It presents works by artists from Sprüth Magers roster alongside a selection of emerging artists from around the globe and across various media, aiming to welcome a playful dialogue between the exhibiting artists and works.

George Condo
Linear Expression
April 28–August 25, 2021
Berlin

Linear Expression, George Condo’s first solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery in over eight years, presents new works on canvas and paper. The artist’s compositions are well known for their intricate renderings of faces and figures, made possible by his virtuosic use of line, color and volume. Often begun using quick, linear gestures, then overlaid with rich tones and brushwork, Condo's imaginary portraits invoke the kaleidoscopic range of human emotion. In this new body of work, abstracted characters hold space together but rarely connect through eye contact or touch—a reflection, perhaps, of the past year of uncertainty and distance. At times tender, at times violent, Condo's new works illustrate his long-standing pursuit to capture the complex and often contradictory nature of human life.

George Condo
George Condo and the Unappeasable Eye
June 2–July 19, 2020

George Condo’s recent painting Smiling Female Portrait (2020) depicts a woman with four eyes, each one with a different expression. Her left eye gazes contentedly into the outside world, while her right bursts with cartoonish surprise. A third eye seems to extend from her cheek, expressing a curiosity all its own, while the bulbous eye at the top her head apprehends the space above with a wide-eyed glare.

George Condo
What's the point?
April 9–June 1, 2019
Los Angeles

What’s the Point of consistency in art?

Every time I put a brushstroke down on a canvas I ask myself, “What’s the Point?”

What’s the Point of each and every mark going onto the painting? It is important for an artist to ask themselves that question. I am intentional with every move I make as a painter. Even if it appears to be random or an accident, or just a part of a painting that seems less important than another, it is not and cannot ever be.

George Condo
Entrance to the Void
April 20–June 11, 2016
Los Angeles

In Entrance to the Void, George Condo condenses the disparate styles of his previous artistic periods into individual paintings that broach the void between figuration and abstraction. Moreover, his new body of work becomes a philosophical exercise in counteracting ideas of ‘nothingness’ through the visual consolidation of a personal, and in this case, artistic history. Condo’s exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles marks over three decades with the gallery since his very first solo show at Monika Sprüth Gallery in Cologne, 1984.

George Condo
Paintings and Sculptures
April 27–June 22, 2013
Berlin

Condo has been connected with the gallery for almost thirty years now. In February 1984, when he lived for a short time in Cologne, the Monika Sprüth Galerie hosted one of the first solo exhibitions of the artist's career. Today Condo is considered to be one of the pioneers of the international revival of figurative painting. With a sensibility schooled in Pop Art, he single-handedly reintroduced the pictorial language of the Old Masters into the discussion concerning contemporary art.

George Condo
Drawings
October 12–December 11, 2011
London

George Condo
Family Portraits
January 30–April 1, 2010
Berlin

George Condo, who in 1984 had his first solo exhibition at the Monika Sprüth Galerie in Cologne, resided at the beginning of the 1980s for an extended period in Cologne and moved within the context of the 'Jungen Wilden'. The style of this group of young painters, to which such artists as Walter Dahn and Jiri Dokupil belonged, was typified by an emphatically painterly and expressive character which deliberately distanced itself from the artistic movements in vogue at that time, such as Minimalism and Concept Art.

George Condo
Drawings
October 18–November 22, 2008
Berlin

Condo’s work is marked by the unification of perceived contradictions; it combines the formal language of classical painting such as Diego Velazquez and Pablo Picasso with the aesthetics of modern cartoons and mass media. While Condo refrains from citing images directly, subtly integrating art historical references into his own image world, his work is unique. Condo contaminates the legacy of the art historical canon through dark humor and the grotesque.

Accrochage: Zeichnungen
George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Marie Luise Lebschik, Michail Pirgelis
September 12–October 14, 2006
Cologne

George Condo
April 24–June 19, 2004
Cologne

Malerei 7
Peter Fischli David Weiss, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Walter Dahn, Siegfried Anzinger, Thomas Scheibitz
October 30, 2003–January 31, 2004
Cologne

Babylon
George Condo, Marcel Dzama, Christoph Lohmann, Andreas Schulze, Karen Yasinsky
curated by Tanja Pol
September 22–October 28, 2000
Munich

Malerei VI
George Condo, Lucy McKenzie, Andreas Schulze, Monika Baer, Dirk Bell, Gillian Carnegie, Thomas Eggerer, Michael Krebber, Picco Gabriele
September 8–October 21, 2000
Cologne

George Condo
March 23–June 19, 1999
Cologne

George Condo
November 7, 1997–January 24, 1998
Cologne

Malerei IV
George Condo, Peter Doig, Axel Kasseböhmer
April 25–June 28, 1997
Cologne

Jahreswechsel 1995/96
Siegfried Anzinger, Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Peter Bömmels, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jenny Holzer, Karen Kilimnik, Max Mohr, Wilhelm Mundt, Raymond Pettibon, Philip Pocock, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
December 17–December 22, 1995
Cologne

Malerei I
Siegfried Anzinger, Ross Bleckner, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Albert Oehlen, Terry Winters
November 11, 1995–January 14, 1996
Cologne

Tutto Tondo
Curtis Anderson, Guglielmo Aschieri, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Ilaria Bona, Angela Bulloch, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jürgen Drescher, Peter Fend, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Anne Loch, Piero Manzoni, Annette Messager, A. R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel
February 4–March 13, 1993
Cologne

George Condo
November 15–December 21, 1991
Cologne

Von den Ursprüngen bis zur Gegenwart
George Condo, Jean Fautrier, Alexander Graf von Schlieffen, Andreas Schulze, Charles Topino, Rosemarie Trockel
October 6–October 28, 1989
Cologne

Das Licht von der anderen Seite – Teil I Malerei
Donald Baechler, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Rene Daniels, Marc Innerst, Axel Kasseböhmer, Milan Kunc, Albert Oehlen, Salvo, Andreas Schulze, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool
June 7–August 31, 1988
Cologne

George Condo
Neue Arbeiten
February 19–April 30, 1988
Cologne

George Condo
Neue Arbeiten
March 24–April 20, 1985
Cologne

Nouveau Boheme
Laure Chenard, George Condo, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Gerard Kever, Milan Kunc, Kenny Scharf, Andreas Schulze, Dieter Teusch
November 15–December 31, 1984
Cologne

George Condo
Bilder-Zeichnungen
February 15–March 13, 1984
Cologne