Born in Sontrondio, Spain, in 1952. Julio Rondo immigrated to Germany with his parents in 1962, studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany under Prof. KRH Sonderborg from 1974 to 1980. Since 1989 Professorship at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, and studies in the USA 1997-1998, Since 2000 he lives and works in Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany.
Rondo works with acrylic and spray painted behind glass in a technique he has developed over many years. He pays particular attention to the phenomenon of involuntary emergence of memory. It is, however, not the recovery of the past as a figurative or narrative that is significant for the artist, but the "essence" of stored perceptions of people, events and places that surface in his compositions.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
O.K., LET'S PANIC LATER, Gröllepass:projects, Wuppertal
as is, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2017
report_images, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2015
slope, Bendana-Pine l Art Contemporain, Paris
2014
revolve, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Little White Lies, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2011
Miles From Here, Adam Gallery, London
2009
Amp., Adam Gallery, London
Buy A Bigger House, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2008
Rented Rooms, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Comb Your Hair With Water And Go To Church, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
2007
You Know, I Know, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Julio Rondo, Galeria Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
2006
Mating Call, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2005
The Mating Call, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Julio Rondo, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2004
The Mating Call, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Julio Rondo, Galeria Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
2002
Julio Rondo, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Julio Rondo, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2001
Julio Rondo, Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Julio Rondo, Galeria Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
Julio Rondo, Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2000
Julio Rondo, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin
1999
Julio Rondo, Gasser & Grunert Gallery, New York
Julio Rondo, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1988
Julio Rondo, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1997
Julio Rondo, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1996
Julio Rondo, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Julio Rondo, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1995
Julio Rondo, Galerie Klaus Peter Göbel, Stuttgart
1993
Julio Rondo, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
1991
Julio Rondo, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart
Julio Rondo, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg
1990
Julio Rondo, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Julio Rondo, Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich
1989
Julio Rondo, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg
1988
Julio Rondo, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Julio Rondo, Galerie Ralph Wernicke Stuttgart
Group Exhibitions
2018
Abstract Art 11 - Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China, PIFO Gallery, Beijing
Fifty-seventh Show. 3654 Days after, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
2017
GEOMETRICS, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2016
CLAIRE OBSCURE, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2013
1825 Days, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris
2012
Summer in the City, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2011
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1991-2011: 20 Jahre Galerie Andreas Binder, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Rainer Gross, Julie Oppermann, Julio Rondo, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2009
365 Days, Bendana-PinelArt Contemporain, Paris
Playing With Space, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2007
Jubilee, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2003
... you sure about this place?, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City
2002
... you sure about this place?, The Pond, Chicago
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2001
Galerie Klaus Peter Göbel,Stuttgart
geo & metric, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2000
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1999
Drei Positionen in der Malerei, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1997
Klemens Gasser & Tanja GrunertInc., New York
1995
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
In between, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich
1994
In between, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Archäologisches Museum,Xanten
1993
In between, La Biennaledi Venezia, Venice
1992
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
1991
Das goldene Zeitalter, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
36. Salon de Montrouge, Jeune Création Allemande, Montrouge, Paris
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg
Gullivers Reisen, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne
1990
Vanitas, Galerie JanineMautsch, Cologne
90 a.s.o, Auvers sur Oise
1989
Jet Lag, Turon Travel, New York, NY
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne
1988
Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart
Galerie Marie-Luise Wirth, Zurich
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne