Giuseppe Madonia was born in 1958 in Palermo. From 1975 onwards he took part in numerous theatre projects, for example for the Palermo Theatre. In 1984 he moved to West Berlin. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a stage-set designer for theatre productions in Treviso (near Venice). In the 1990s he began working in three-dimensional media in addition to painting. Madonia lives and works in Berlin.