Norbert Bisky
The artist
Norbert Bisky was born in 1970 in Leipzig, Germany. His treatment of landscapes and exploration of the portrait and narrative structure place him firmly in the tradition of great European painting. But Norbert Bisky's experiments with breaking down forms and with blocks of colour also place him on the borderline of abstract art. His figurative style of painting, conjuring up the socialist realism he experienced as a child in GDR, suggests both hedonism and chaos in its contemporary form.
Exhibitions
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LUDOLOGY
May 2 - June 22, 2024
New York -
Utopianistas
November 5 - December 23, 2022
Paris - Beaubourg -
Desmadre Berlin
March 14 - May 23, 2020
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
From the Paper to the Wall
June 6 - July 26, 2019
Brussels -
Hérésie
October 29 - December 23, 2015
Brussels -
Works on Paper
June 7 - July 23, 2014
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Decompression
November 5 > December 24, 2011
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1970 in Leipzig, Germany |
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| Residence | Lives and works in Berlin, Germany |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Passengers, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Suisse Stage Design and Production: Franz Schubert , Die schöne Müllerin, Staatsoper Stuttgart / Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, Germany Walküren, Museum Andreasstift, Worms, Germany Ludology, TEMPLON, New York, USA |
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| 2023 | Im Freien, Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst, Zwickau, Germany Navot Miller & Norbert Bisky: Swing State, Weserhalle, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 | Utopianistas, TEMPLON, Paris, France Mirror Society, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Gerogia USA Walküren-Basislager, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Haptbahnhof, Stuttgart, Germany Kurpark, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Taumel, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2021 | Norbert Bisky - DISINFOTAINMENT, G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Germany |
| 2020 | Berlin Sunday, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Desmadre Berlin, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Pompa, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany Rant, Villa Schöningen, Postdam, Germany |
| 2018 | Fernwärme, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland Anatomie, König London, London, UK |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | This is Tomorrow, New Presentation of the 20th/21st century collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany |
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| 2023 | PINK SNOWFLAKES, ARC COLLECT SPACE by VogelArt, Munich, Germany unputdownable at Mountains Gallery, Berlin, Germany Sirani – Thirteen Contemporary Painters and an Arresting Baroque Masterpiece, Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany Transformative Boundaries, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Geneva et Lausanne, Switzerland "Fancy some Friction Honey?”, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands AXIS Festival, Volkstheater Rostock, Germany Unsere Sammlung 1891 – 2022, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany Die Zukunft der SPD 3, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Germany Schlossmuseum Murnau: new presentation of the collection, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany Menschenbild – der expressionistische Blick, Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Germany |
| 2022 | Kunst-Stücke, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany Jürgen Wittdorf (1932 – 2018), Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum & Statuepark, Dronningmølle, Denmark All you need is love, Schau Fenster, Raum der Kunst, Berlin, Germany Mixed Feelings, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany Liebe Grüsse, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland |
| 2021 | Deep Blue, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont, USA Kunst & Hallen Kunstsinn Über Mauern Hinweg, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany Perspektivwechsel, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany Kunst-Stücke, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany Die Zukunft der SPD #2, Provinzeditionen, Bochum, Germany Grün – von farblichen Akzenten zur Monochromie IV, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany |
| 2020 | HEART-100 Artists.1 Mission, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Szene Berlin, Hall Art Foundation – Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany Who Am I !?, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China How beautiful you are!, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | Die Zukunft der SPD, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin, Germany Szene Berlin Okt. 19, Kônig Galerie at Ketterer Kunst, München, Germany From the Paper to the Wall, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium 30 Years of Dutch Courage. A jubilee exhibition, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands I will be dead, König London, London, UK Tainted Love / Club Edit, Villa Arson, Nice, France Geheimnis der Dinge, Malstrücke, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany |
| 2018 | Boezemvriend, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Geheimnis der Dinge, Malstrücke, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany Studio d, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan, Italy Eros und Thanatos, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, Germany It smells like… flowers & fragrances, me Collectors Room/ Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany Wir nennen es Arbeit, Botschaft, Berlin, Germany G2 #9 – The Art of Recollecting, G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | |
| National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea | |
| Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany |
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Press Release
BLU - August, 2024
Ludology
Arts Magazine - décembre 2022
Les interrogations de Norbert Bisky sur notre avenir
Christian Charreyre
Connaissance des Arts.com - mars 2020
8 expos gratuites en galerie pour découvrir l'art contemporain
Welt.de - décembre 2019
Nichts war gut
Exberliner.com - novembre 2019
Former GDR painter Bisky on his new exhibition doublei-bill
Anna Larkin, Rene Blixer
Monopol-Magazin.de - octobre 2019
Maler Bisky üuer DDR und Mauerfall
Handelsblatt.com - mai 2019
Küustler Norbert Bisky: Noch ist der Krieg nicht zu Ende
Suzanne Schreiber
Têtu - juin 2014
Faux-Semblants
Télérama Sortir - juin 2014
Norbert Bisky, Works on Paper
La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot - juin 2014
Norbert Bisky, Works on Paper
News
Norbert Bisky
WALKüREN
Solo Show
Museum Andreasstift, Worms
From July 11 to September 29, 2024
The Museum Andreasstift is dedicating a solo show to Norbert Bisky through September 29, 2024 in Germany. The exhibition features oil on canvases and works on paper focusing on the theme of the valkyries.
Norbert Bisky
IM FREIEN
Solo Show
Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst, Zwickau
From July 1 to September 29, 2023
Norbert Bisky’s solo show Im Freien will open on July 1, 2023 at the Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst in Zwickau.
Norbert Bisky
PERMANENT COLLECTION – CROSSING
G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
The artwork Crossing by Norbert Bisky joined the permanent collection of G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig.
Norbert Bisky
SOLO SHOW – MIRROR SOCIETY
Norbert Bisky - Mirror Society
SCAD Museum of Art, United States
Through August 1st, 2022
In Mirror Society, the artist presents a series of recent works uniquely collaged with canvas from previous paintings that has been slashed and reapplied to a mirrored surface. These composite arrangements deconstruct the figure into fragments of torsos, limbs, and faces violently intersecting with abstracted bursts of saturated color and the mirror’s fractal reflections. The viewer is confronted with half-hidden, half-bared images of beautiful youth as well as their own gaze, trapped in a voyeuristic feedback loop. With these works, Bisky comments on the narcissism of a society deeply engaged in the production and consumption of a dizzying onslaught of images in viral media, ambivalent to the violence and turmoil of global events.
Norbert Bisky
DEEP BLUE – GROUP SHOW
Hall Art Foundation, 544 VT Route 106, Reading, Vermont, USA
Until November 28, 2021
The show examines the “deep blue” from various perspectives: both visually, as a color, but also linguistically, as a phrase describing abstract concepts such as mood, the natural environment, music and even a region’s political landscape. Over 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper and videos by 70 artists from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections will be presented.
Norbert Bisky
“D I S I N F O T A I N M E N T” – SOLO EXHIBITION
G2 Kunsthalle, Dittrichring 13, Leipzig, Germany
From June 4 to September 26, 2021
Norbert Bisky’s first exhibition in Leipzig, where he was born, combines earlier works from the holdings of the Hildebrang Collection with a new painting cycle and an expansive installation inspired by the altered conditions of communication in the pandemic age. The title refers to G2 Kunsthalle’s architectural history –it was meant to a host municipal data processing center. The show turns the spotlight on the use of data and information in a world ruled by digital technology. In the recent work “Trollfarmer” (2021), Bisky grapples with “doom-scrolling”, in which people compulsively search the web for fear-inducing images and information, and explores the ways in which such new cultural practices serve the interests of unseen actors.
Norbert Bisky
THE LATEST EXHIBITION OF NORBERT BISKY AT THE GALERIE TEMPLON, IS TRAVELLING TO POITIERS.
From June 15 to August 25, 2020
Confort Moderne, 185 Rue du Faubourg du Pont Neuf, 86000 Poitiers
As of mid-June, the Galerie Templon’s latest exhibition of works by the artist, will travel to Le Confort moderne, a former industrial building turned into a trending place for the cultural life of Poitiers. In this new series, Bisky has chosen to swap the pastel blue of his skies for darker hues and the luminous smiles of his models for more serious expressions. His baroque scenes feature bronzed models who bring to mind the communist propaganda which marked the artist’s youth in GDR. Alongside them are the night birds, hipsters and outsiders who populate the streets of Berlin Friedrichshain every evening, drifting among the post-industrial facades that characterise the district, a favourite haunt of the city’s denizens of the night.
Norbert Bisky
Jim Dine
Billie Zangewa
TEMPLON LAUNCHES A NEW VIEWING ROOM
We invite you to experience our new online viewing room for an immersive visit of our Paris and Brussels spaces.
Currently on view: Norbert Bisky: Desmadre Berlin, Jim Dine: The Classic Prints, and Billie Zangewa: Soldier of Love.
Click on the link below and on each work to explore!
