Key Points
- George Condo returns to Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation.
- He left the gallery in November 2025 for Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt.
- Hauser & Wirth will stage 2027 Condo shows in Paris and Palo Alto.
- Condo keeps his longtime relationship with Sprüth Magers.
George Condo is going back to Hauser & Wirth less than a year after he left it. The mega-gallery said it has resumed representing the painter worldwide and will stage exhibitions of new and historical works at its Paris and Palo Alto spaces in 2027, ARTnews reported — a reunion for a relationship that first began in 2019.
The reversal is fast even by the art world's standards. Condo left Hauser & Wirth in November 2025, after six years, to rejoin Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, dealers he had worked with for decades. Eight months later he is back with Hauser & Wirth for global representation while keeping his relationship with Sprüth Magers. The 2027 shows follow his 2025 career survey at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.
The read: this is a snapshot of who holds the leverage at the top of the art market. A painter of Condo's stature — a blue-chip name whose canvases move at the level tracked by the same auction houses that just set a $181.2 million Pollock record — can leave a mega-gallery and be courted back within a year, on terms that let him keep another dealer too. Representation at this level has become fluid and artist-driven, the same dynamic visible when Amy Sherald signed with a Hollywood agency or when Zwirner absorbed 52 Walker. The galleries need the marquee names more than the names need any single gallery, and Condo just proved it.
Source: ARTnews.
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