Condo London 2026: The Best Art Shows to See This January

The cure to your seasonal blues, Condo returns this year with a selection of stimulating new exhibitions to visit in London this January. The globe-spanning initiative, founded by Vanessa Carlos of eponymous Carlos/Ishikawa, sees the international gallery community come together for a month of collaborative exhibition with over 50 galleries participating across 23 London spaces. Despite a shifting economic landscape and an ever-changing cultural climate, Condo, as a community-centred programme, explores the possibility of resource sharing as a solution to uncertainty. It is a demonstration of resilience and the bonds that can help to fuel creativity, which sees the benefits of mutual support delivering exciting exhibitions. A rare opportunity to see works from artists less-exhibited within London, Condo is the perfect excuse to brave the cold and explore galleries all across the capital, from Lambeth Road to London Fields. This year’s programme is accompanied by an unorthodox A-Z map curated by Isaac Rangaswami, highlighting hidden gems from Chinatown restaurants to pieces of wartime history to discover between gallery hopping. 

Below, read more about six of the best Condo London exhibitions to visit.

Arcadia Missa hosting Kayokoyuki (Tokyo) – Jan Vorisek and Kazuki Matsushita 

Bears anus like a X’mas ornament is a new collection of paintings by Kazuki Matsushita, whose practice explores language, with a strong interest in words and anagrams. Rather than a simple means for description, titles become a tool to uncover how desire and beliefs are embedded within linguistic structures. His paintings are abstract and fragmented, mirroring the way that words are chopped and reconfigured in his titles. Works like Humanist Sans-Serif “Star Finishes Manus” (2024) transform letters into subjects using text in a subversive way, disrupting our expectations of language as a container for meaning. 

Jan Vorisek’s investigations into architecture through found objects continue in his witty exhibition Elbows, transforming objects used as part of the construction process into end products themselves. Occupying much of the gallery, this new series of works builds on earlier explorations of Roman column moulds with new 3D printed extension modules, suggesting a sense of being in-between states. 

Brunette Coleman hosting Zero… (Milan) - Paride Maria Calvia, Hubert Duprat, Irene Fenara

Paride Maria Calvia uses a diverse array of found materials within his work, from salvaged rocks and fibreboard panels to animal hair and sebum. Concerned with tracing the history of objects and how the materials have been affected by time, he establishes continuity by morphing already existing materials. Hubert Duprat’s beguiling sculptures are made in collaboration with the natural world, working with caddisfly larvae’s natural instinct to construct protective structures. While they would typically be built using debris found in their natural freshwater habitats, the artist provides them with precious materials such as gold and pearls to create alluring sculptures. Irene Fenara presents a video from her ongoing Supervision series, which investigates the aesthetics and politics of surveillance. 

Carlos / Ishikawa hosting Castle (Los Angeles) - Lloyd Corporation and James Iveson

In The Vital Difference, Lloyd Corporation continues their investigation of power structures and economic forces through site-specific installation. Harnessing found objects, their practice often reframes our relationship with material culture and contemporary ephemera – posters, bureaucratic forms, internet cafes, and, in this instance, donation boxes, examining the politics of giving with a critical distance. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication which expands the discourse, drawing upon the urgency and emotional intensity which appeals for aid often elicits, distorted by the saturation of digital media.

Castle presents paintings by James Iveson, the intimacy of which reflects the ethos of the gallery’s apartment space beginnings. Iveson’s colour-blocked portraits are tender and meditative, peeking into an interior life. Figures are caught in moments of stillness and washed in saturated tones; his delicate paintings have a playfulness which captures the essential quality of his subjects. 

Nicoletti hosting Magician Space (Beijing) - Inès di Folco Jemni and Yasmine Anlan Huang

Inès di Folco Jemni uses personal and historical references as a starting point to explore the bonds that unite us between this life and the next. Memory and ritual are key themes within her practice, weaving together divergent mythologies. In The Smell of Freshness, large paintings exude feminine iconography and are embedded with spiritual references that open up parallel worlds. In a similar spirit, Yasmine Anlan Huang’s work blurs the line between personal and larger cultural stories to explore wider universal truths, resisting the compression of simplified narratives. In her exhibition Whisperer, works require a vigilance to peer beneath the surface. She works across a number of mediums, presenting moving image, sculpture, installation and text. Mixed media works like Which version of my body (truth seeker) sees a bird’s wing transfixed in flight, exploring fragile moments of flux between states of being.

Public hosting Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City) - Raheel Khan, Hellen Ascoli, Maya Gurung‐Russell Campbell, Sayan Chanda, Mark Corfield‐Moore, Sarah Crowner, Regina José Galindo, Xin Liu, Felipe Mujica, Rose Nestler, Johanna Unzueta, Elisabeth Wild

In the group show The Fold, Public Gallery and Proyectos Ultravioleta present works by eleven international artists, exploring how textile practices can embed spatial and social histories. The exhibition takes inspiration from Deleuze’s concept of ‘the fold’, which sees the world as a continuously extended fold, compressing time and space. Featured artists adopt a variety of mediums, from hand-woven canvas to performance. Echoing the gallery’s location adjacent to Petticoat Lane Market, a site synonymous with textile trade since the 17th century, the works trace rich histories of labour and migration.

On show in Public’s space next door, a former textile shop, Raheel Khan presents Grid Systems. The exhibition continues his exploration of design infrastructures and material culture, responding to the space through newly created works produced through reclaiming materials from the gallery. Working across two floors, the exhibition is emblematic of his multidisciplinary practice incorporating installation, sculpture and sound. 

Rose Easton hosting ZaZa (Milan/Naples) - Arlette and Sylvano Bussotti 

Craft and humour converge in Arlette’s sensual sculptures, which explore her continued interest in luxury, spirituality and popular culture. Her practice bridges the fashion and art worlds, with her wearable art pieces worn by the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott. Metal features often in her work, playing with the materials’ association with art history and religious iconography. It’s through this medium that she is able to give weight to the intangible, granting physical form to desire. 

In a similar vein, Bussotti’s multidisciplinary practice spanned music, visual art and theatre, collaborating with prominent cultural figures from John Cage to Federico Fellini. Uncomplicated compositions are created through delicate lines and pertinent details. Stripped back, decisive and often erotically charged, his sublime draughtsmanship creates sensual works designed to entice. 

Condo London 2026 is on show from 17 January. During the preview weekend, galleries will open both Saturday and Sunday from 12-6pm.