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
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
POMPA AND RANT – SOLO SHOWS
RANT – Solo show VILLA SCHÖNINGEN, POTSDAM, GERMANY From 9 November, 2019 to 23 February, 2020 POMPA- Solo show ST. MATTHÄUS-KIRCHE, BERLIN, GERMANY From 10 November 2019 to16 February, 2020
“I would never have been an artist without the fall of the Wall.” In November 2019, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, painter Norbert Bisky reflects on the end of the GDR, the chaos of the post-reunification era and his personal experience with two parallel exhibitions, POMPA and RANT, in Berlin and Potsdam.
Norbert Bisky
TAINTED LOVE – GROUP SHOW
VILLA ARSON, NICE, FRANCE From 08/02/2019 to 26/05/2019
Following the exhibition Tainted Love (Where did our love go) held in Poitiers in 2017 for the reopening of the Confort Moderne, Villa Arson offers a “Club Edit” version with the complicity of Yann Chevallier and some 30 artists from all walks of life.
This exhibit will not speak, the image is still, the sound is off. Elegant attire, fragmented bodies, suggested silhouettes dancing to the hit with words of black hearts, all enhance the feeling of suspension and simulate a sentimental form of mysticism. The pieces pose, lives run into each other, sensitivity reveals itself. Intimacy, secrecy, alcoves, bedrooms and other meeting places become the space itself for an exhibition and an explicit. Cheap sentiments and morality often give power to the cynical. To wear hybrid, reversible and moving identities, made of games, masks and cross-dress ups, means you’re entirely free to embrace a scandalous reality.
Curator: Yann Chevallier
In partnership with the Confort Moderne – Poitiers
Norbert Bisky
«TAINTED LOVE/CLUB EDIT » GROUP SHOW
Villa Arson, Nice, France From 08/02/2019 to 26/05/2019
Following the exhibition Tainted Love (Where did our love go) held in Poitiers in 2017 for the reopening of the Confort Moderne, Villa Arson offers a “Club Edit” version with the complicity of Yann Chevallier and some 30 artists from all walks of life.
Rita Ackermann, Aude Anquetil, Fabienne Audéoud & John Russell, Fabienne Audéoud, avaf, Nina Beier, Alexandra Bircken, Norbert Bisky, Travis Boyer, Anne-Lise Coste, Liz Craft, Brian DeGraw, DSCTHK, Vava Dudu, Elmgreen & Dragset, Théodore Fivel, Sylvie Fleury, Lise Haller Baggesen, Celia Hempton, Jacob Kassay, Tarik Kiswanson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Lily McMenamy, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Émilie Pitoiset, Eileen Quinlan, Pierre René-Worms, Azzedine Saleck, Segondurante, Apolonia Sokol, Cheyney Thompson, Betty Tompkins, We Are The Painters, Nicole Wermers
Curator : Yann Chevallier
In partnership with le Confort Moderne – Poitiers
Norbert Bisky
NORBERT BISKY, BALAGAN
BÖTZOW, BERLIN
Balagan – the Persian term for chaos and confusion, which can also be linked to partying and exuberance – brings together new works by Norbert Bisky. The majority of the pieces were completed in Tel Aviv where the German artist experimented an atelier swap with fellow artist Erez Israeli, from January to March. His burnt bus installation, his large scale colourful paintings and smaller works on paper give some insights into both sides of his ambiguous work : angst and ‘joie de vivre’.
Norbert Bisky
LABORATORIES OF THE SENSES(GROUP SHOW)
Marta Herford, Garmany
From May 12th to September 16th 2012 This top-class exhibition developed at Marta Herford addresses the diverse relationship between two creative production centres: the artist’s studio and the kitchen. Connected by the pleasurable use of new materials and ingredients as well as the close involvement of the senses, both these rooms have also undergone a process of transformation over the centuries. Artists’ studios have developed from master craftsmen’s workshops into mysterious studios of brilliant creators and later factory-like studios or multimedia laboratories. And a parallel path has been charted by the kitchen, which has evolved from an archaic fireplace into a rural kitchen-cum-living-room, the small kitchens found in blocks of flats, and modern open high-tech units. (…)
Norbert Bisky
I AM A BERLINER(GROUP SHOW)
Museo dell’arte del novecento e del contemporaneo – Covento del Carmelo, Sassari, Italy
From April 13th to June 13th 2012 What does it mean to speak of “the persistence of painting”? In Berlin today, this expression represents a remarkable diversity of practices ranging from abstraction and realism to highly expressive, narrative, and post-narrative painting. These distinct painterly positions, which are represented by the 18 artists featured in this exhibitions, all involve a self-reflexive investigation of the painterly process and of the nature of contemporary painting. (…)
Norbert Bisky
I AM A BERLINER(GROUP SHOW)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israël
From January 21th to March 24th 2012 What does it mean to speak of “the persistence of painting”? In Berlin today, this expression represents a remarkable diversity of practices ranging from abstraction and realism to highly expressive, narrative, and post-narrative painting. These distinct painterly positions, which are represented by the 18 artists featured in this exhibitions, all involve a self-reflexive investigation of the painterly process and of the nature of contemporary painting. (…)
