The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris Inaugurates Two Fall Exhibitions Dedicated to Otobong Nkanga and George Condo
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is featuring the artist Otobong Nkanga’s first monographic exhibition in a Parisian museum in fall 2025. Since the late 1990s, Otobong Nkanga (born in Kano, Nigeria in 1974 and now living in Antwerp, Belgium) has been addressing themes related to ecology and relationships between the body and the territory in her practice. Drawing upon her own personal history and her research bearing witness to an array of transhistorical influences, she creates networks and constellations between humans and landscapes, while broaching the reparative capacity of natural and relational systems.
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is also inaugurating, in collaboration with the artist, the most significant exhibition to date of George Condo’s work. A painter, draftsman, and sculptor, George Condo has created a unique pictorial world, drawing inspiration from a profuse visual culture spanning Western art history, from the Old Masters to the present. Born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, George Condo moved to New York in 1979, subsequently living in Cologne and then Paris, his primary place of residence from 1985 to 1995. His broad knowledge of European art led him to develop a personal approach to figurative painting and a fierce take on his times.
Among the guests who came to celebrate this double inauguration were India Mahdavi, Lorena Rae, and many friends of the museum and the art world.
Photos: Michael Huard
