Gilbert & George Reveal New Collaboration with Street Artist Endless
The iconic artist duo Gilbert & George have teamed up with London street artist Endless, whose work caught their eye. Their joint exhibition is now on display at the Gilbert & George Centre.
Gilbert Prousch, 82, and George Passmore, 84, known collectively as Gilbert & George, have lived and worked in a Georgian townhouse in Fournier Street, Spitalfields, east London since the late 1960s. Their home famously lacks a kitchen – they consider cooking a waste of time better spent making art – so they eat out or have food delivered.
Recently, they have been joined by 41-year-old street artist Endless, the first graffiti artist to exhibit at Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Endless caught their attention with a mural near their home featuring his signature piece, Crotch Grab, a reworking of a 1990s Calvin Klein advert. In 2018, Endless created a work showing Gilbert & George grabbing their crotches in Union Jack boxer shorts.
Endless now visits them weekly. "You learn how to be an artist from people who are greater than you," he said. George added: "How to learn to be big-headed, idiotic artists."
The duo's new exhibition, Our George Crompton, Worlds and Windows, is on view at the Gilbert & George Centre, a converted 19th-century brewery that opened in 2023. It reworks their 1990 London and New York exhibition. The show features George Crompton, a homeless man who often sat in their studio chair. He died in a hospice, and his image now appears in two new works standing outside their famous front door.
Gilbert & George plan to leave their artworks to the centre, free to the public. Endless noted that legacy isn't about ownership but about attitude: "carry the spirit forward."
The exhibition runs until 2027, while Endless's solo show Endless X London is at Cris Contini Contemporary, London, until 25 July.
