Norbert Bisky

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Norbert Bisky (born 1970, Leipzig) is a German painter, known for his frescos depicting adolescents. Bisky is the most well-known figure in a group of rising German artists who have ushered in a new age of German painting centered in Berlin^[1].

His works often create a puzzle for the viewer. For as paintings they do not pursue the flatness and two dimensionality of high modernism, and neither do they show the at times acerbic neo-expressionism of his teacher Georg Baselitz. Though the manner in which the white gesso-ed ground stands in for light reveals a clear awareness and knowledge of post-impressionist practices found at the beginnings of ‘the modern’. But, this said, Bisky is definitively a figurative painter and he makes no bones about it. The past is an open territory to be visited and appropriated at will.

Born at Leipzig during the former DDR, he often speaks of the ideological certainties that turned out for him to be the stolen childhood of retrospect. And, it is, perhaps, the principle of lost certainties that most colours the timbre of his paintings. On the surface they appear paintings of luminous celebration, masking the hidden disturbance and anxiety that shaped their development. The colors on his works create a kitsch that questions the perfection of images. Having studied through the second half of the 90s at the Hochschule der Künste, and in the master class of Georg Baselitz in Berlin, the paintings reveal a resistance to, as much as an embracing of the general tenets his teacher espoused.

[edit] Exhibitions

2007

• "Behind Innocence", Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

2006

• "Total Care", Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
• "es tut mir so leid", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin

2005

• Studio d´Arte Cannaviello, Milan
• "Déluge", Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris
• "Malerei", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004

• "The Proud, the Few", Leo Koenig Inc., NYC
• "Abgesagt", Mannheimer Kunstverein
• "Opkomst en Verval" , Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

2003

• "Schlachteplatte", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin

2002

• Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O.

2001

• "Wir werden siegen", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
• "Vorkämpfer", Chelsea Kunstraum, Köln

[edit] Public Collections

• MoMA
• Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
• Museum Ludwig
• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

[edit] External links

• www.norbertbisky.com
• Leo Koenig Inc.: Norbert Bisky
• Artnet.com profile