Condo is back in London once again after a brief pandemic hiatus, having become a highlight of the London gallery calendar. Founded in 2016 by Vanessa Carlos (director of London-based Carlos/Ishikawa), Condo was envisioned as a large-scale exchange scheme encouraging the extension of gallery programmes beyond borders. Taking its name from ‘condominium’, galleries in host cities share their spaces with other galleries from across the globe, providing a rare opportunity for resource sharing and experimental exhibition-making. Condo has had many iterations over the years, with exchanges taking place in cities such as New York, São Paulo and Shanghai. This year‘s London edition sees 50 galleries taking part across 23 London spaces all over the capital, kickstarting the year with an influx of fresh creative energy.

Below, see our guide to the best shows to see at Condo London 2024, which runs from 20 January – 17 February 2024.

Maureen Paley: Studio M, hosting Sweetwater (Berlin) – Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondji
East London powerhouse Maureen Paley hosts the cool and conceptual Berlin-based gallery Sweetwater, presenting art by Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondji, whose work explores the boundaries between public and private. Khondji's Dams is a site-specific intervention in the space, which uses readymade aluminium floodgates to cut the room in two, altering the dynamics of the gallery space. Acque presents images from his Ebb and Flow series, photographic diptychs that feature a body of water accompanied by the body of a person. The framing is almost erotic in its voyeurism, with anonymous bodies caught unaware. The grainy, dreamlike hues of the labour-intensive gum-bichromate printing process lend an ethereal quality to the transient nature of the images, too.

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