Norbert Bisky

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Norbert Bisky portrayed by Oliver Mark , Berlin 2014

Norbert Bisky (born October 10, 1970 in Leipzig ) is a German painter . He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary German artists and representatives of figurative painting in the 21st century .

Life

Norbert Bisky grew up in the GDR . In 1990 he began studying German and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Three years later he attended the Free Art School in Berlin and decided to study art. He studied from 1994 to 1999 at the local University of the Arts under Georg Baselitz . In 1995 he spent a year in Madrid and was particularly influenced by the works of Francisco de Goya , Francisco de Zurbarán and Jusepe de Ribera . He took part in the Salzburg Summer Academy in Jim Dine's class and completed a master class with Baselitz in 1999 . From 2008 to 2010 Bisky was visiting professor at the Geneva art academy HEAD, from 2016 to 2018 at the HBK Braunschweig . In 2015 he exchanged his studio with the artist Erez Israeli for three months and worked in Tel Aviv.

Norbert Bisky is the son of Left Party politician Lothar Bisky (1941–2013) and his wife Almuth (1943–2016). He is the younger brother of the journalist and writer Jens Bisky . His younger brother Stephan Bisky died in 2008 at the age of 25. Norbert Bisky lives in Berlin.

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In his early years, Bisky painted bright, light pictures in oil . He himself once described them as " washed with Lenor ". He made works in which glistening brightly painted young, beautiful, happy and energetic men as well as pure untouched nature were central motifs. The Grand Guignol style in which the pictures are painted supports the view of an apparently ideal world: soft, flattering shapes reminiscent of cotton balls show children being eaten and torn limbs from which blood is dripping - the idyll deceiving. Even the titles of the pictures such as “Exercise in the field” (2002), “Lazarett im Paradies” (2005) or “Remote Detonator” (2005) suggest a subliminal threat.

In later paintings, Bisky transformed his own icons. The magazine Stern wrote: “The happy socialist world of his early pictures is over - cannibals and arsonists are now lurking , people throw up and urinate.” The artistic references from Renaissance to Pop Art remain, however. The art critic Christoph Tannert observed an increase in brutal canvas scenes and a rapid waste of body fluids. He noted the artist's unmistakable sense of body cult and body criticism. In doing so, Bisky refrains from being drawn to passion and from any sensitivity, according to Tannert. Newer titles are “Bukkake Tsunami” (2007), “Sputum” (2007), “Solaris” (2006) and “Torera” (2006).

In addition, Francisco de Goya's influence and iconographic references were particularly evident in works such as “Allesfresser” (2005) or “I wasn't it” (2003). But also through the use of certain colors, the pictures of this period referred in a subtle way to old Spanish masters such as Jusepe de Ribera .

In more recent works since 2010, Bisky has processed "personal experiences of experienced terror, trips to Brazil as well as influences from the media world (...) with color-intensive tones to scenes of beauty, sexuality, violence and destruction". Overall, the works are reminiscent of socialist realism , of painters like Alexander Alexandrowitsch Deineka , of Leni Riefenstahl's aesthetics, but also of the advertising images of the 1950s and 1960s and works of Pop Art . According to some estimates, its protagonists offer "projection surfaces for explicitly gay and sadistic practices."

Bisky designed a stage design for the first time for the play Masse by the Berlin State Ballet , which premiered in May 2013 in the Halle am Berghain . Since May 2017 his work "Vertigo" can be seen permanently on the ground floor of the club. The large-format picture shows the dance area “Pillar” as part of the Berghain art concept, which includes works by Wolfgang Tillmans and Joseph Marr in other areas of the building .

For the International Freedom of the Press Day , Norbert Bisky created the painting “Rauschen”, which was published on May 3, 2019 on numerous front pages of German daily newspapers in collaboration with the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers .

The journalist Hajo Schumacher describes Bisky as one of the most important contemporary German artists. Bisky is represented by the König Galerie in Berlin.

criticism

Bisky vehemently rejects the criticism of his visual worlds, which states that they are close to Leni Riefenstahl's aesthetics and thus to Nazi art. In an interview he said that he had nothing to do with this “Nazi shit […].” In another interview he stated: “I'm gay, I come from communists - I think I'm the first that you would immediately hang on the lantern, so I'm the first to speak out very clearly against Nazis and against the law and everything that is crawling around in disgusting stuff and says that I have nothing to do with that. "

Another reading of Bisky's style sees an orientation towards socialist realism . The artist himself points out that he uses elements in his pictures with which he grew up. "That was socialist realism and that was the painting of the Russians."

Exhibitions

2019

2018

  • “District heating”, Langmatt Museum, Baden / Switzerland
  • "Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros", curated by Eric Fischl , Hall Art Foundation, Reading, USA
  • “Boezemvriend”, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

2017

  • “Trilemma”, König Galerie , Berlin
  • "The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution!", Kunstmuseum Bern
  • "MISSING: The Tower of the Blue Horses by Franz Marc - Contemporary artists in search of a lost masterpiece", Haus am Waldsee , Berlin

2016

  • “Dies Irae”, Crone Vienna
  • “A FUGA”, Galeria Baró, São Paulo
  • "Elective Affinities - German Art Since The Late 1960s", Latvian National Art Museum , Riga
  • "Zeitgeist - Arte da Nova Berlim", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

2015

  • “Hérésie”, Daniel Templon Gallery, Brussels
  • “Levinsky Street”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • "Balagan", Bötzow Berlin
  • "Black Bandits", house on Lützowplatz , Berlin

2014

  • "Centrifuge", Rostock art gallery
  • “Works on Paper”, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris
  • “Riots”, Espacio Minimo, Madrid
  • "10", Berghain , Berlin
  • “Utopie Picturale 2”, Fonderie Kugler, Geneva

2013

  • "Norbert Bisky: Special Report", MEWO Kunsthalle , Memmingen
  • “Paraisópolis”, Galerie Crone, Berlin

2012

2011

  • "A retrospective. Ten Years Of Painting ”, Marcel Duchamp Art Gallery, Cully, Switzerland
  • “Decompression”, Daniel Templon Gallery , Paris

2010

  • “Befall”, Galerie Crone, Berlin
  • “Maudit”, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva

2009

  • "Mandelkern", Kunstverein Dortmund
  • “Crossing jordaan”, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam and Amsterdam
  • “Nefasto Máximo”, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
  • "Norbert Bisky: Paintings", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

2008

  • “Cloud cuckoo land”, Mirchandani + Steinruecke Gallery, Mumbai
  • “Private”, Galerie Crone, Berlin
  • “Minimental”, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam

2007

  • “It wasn't me”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • “What's wrong with me”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
  • "Behind Innocence", Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

2006

  • “Total Care”, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
  • "I'm so sorry", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin

2005

  • "Norbert Bisky", Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan
  • “Déluge”, Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery, Paris
  • “Painting”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004

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

2003

  • “Schlachteplatte”, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin

2002

2001

  • “We will win”, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
  • “Almauftrieb”, Kulturbrauerei, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
  • “Champion”, Chelsea Kunstraum, Cologne

Public collections

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Texts on Art, June 2010, Volume 20, Issue 78, p. 250
  2. ↑ Gabriela Walde: Norbert Bisky and the fall from hell in Friedrichshain . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 10, 2015, accessed on December 17, 2019
  3. ↑ Susanne Schreiber: Artist Norbert Bisky: “The Cold War is not over yet” . In: Handelsblatt Magazin, May 23, 2019, accessed on December 17, 2019
  4. ↑ Sabine Küchler: I came back from New York and was still the Ossi. Zeit Online , January 28, 2011: Interview with Bisky; Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ arte.tv: Everything for Art - The Mentors of the Masterclass ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ Lecturer website of the HBK Braunschweig, events from winter semester 2016/2017 to summer semester 2018 , accessed on March 13, 2019.
  7. ^ Website of Norbert Bisky
  8. ↑ juedische-allgemeine.de , accessed on April 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ Christoph Amend : These biscuits . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/2004
  10. ↑ Norbert Bisky: The worst thing is indifference ww-asset.com, January 13, 2011; accessed on December 23, 2015.
  11. ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Norbert Bisky: "And I'm neither old nor dead" , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on November 19, 2019.
  12. ^ Artist portrait at Lempertz , accessed on November 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ Barbara Wiegand for NDR Kultur : Boundless Art: In Norbert Bisky's studio , accessed on November 19, 2019.
  14. ^ Kirsty Scott, Kate Connolly: UK news in letter . The Guardian, January 1, 2009, accessed September 10, 2019.
  15. ↑ Almut F. Kaspar: Nightmare in the idyll at stern.de
  16. ↑ Christoph Tannert, Norbert Bisky Art Workshop , Prestel Verlag 2007, p. 9.
  17. ^ Mark Gisbourne: The sacred and the profane , art. Es No. 23, 2007; Katja Blomberg: It wasn't me , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, 2007.
  18. ^ International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), courses for 2013, accessed on November 14, 2013
  19. ↑ Oliver Koerner Von Gustorf: Modern catastrophes under baroque skies: The Berlin house on the Waldsee shows the new works of Norbert Bisky . In: Die Welt , November 4, 2007
  20. ↑ cf. z. B. Tanja Hoffmann: Contemporary painting: dealing with Nazi art . lehrer-online.de, August 19, 2004
  21. ↑ Michael Loeckle: Politclowns, Staatsnieten, Kabinettsluschen - From the decline of political culture . bruecke-saarbruecken.de
  22. ↑ Max Henry: Norbert Bisky . New York, 2004.
  23. ↑ Nobert Bisky's heavenly gay fantasies . Welt Online , November 3, 2007
  24. ↑ staatsballett-berlin.de
  25. ↑ welt.de: I was in ballet much more often than in Berghain , May 4, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2013
  26. ↑ taz.de: The Life of Fossils , August 2, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2017
  27. ↑ Article on artnet.com , April 28, 2017, accessed August 28, 2017
  28. ↑ Anja Pasquay: Norbert Bisky: I know what freedom of the press means , in: Berliner Morgenpost , May 3, 2019
  29. ↑ Norbert Bisky on the Day of Press Freedom 2019 , Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers on YouTube , published on May 2, 2019
  30. ↑ dw.com , July 12, 2009, accessed March 27, 2019
  31. ^ Artist website of the König Galerie
  32. ↑ My pictures are foreign bodies Interview Spiegel, October 29, 2007, p. 211.
  33. ↑ Who needs all of this mass production? Interview with Deutschlandradio, May 3, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2013.
  34. ^ Judka Strittmatter: Not always just politically . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 27, 1999.
  35. ↑ Norbert Bisky: The worst thing is indifference ( memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ww-asset.com, January 13, 2011; accessed on October 31, 2013.
  36. ^ Website Villa Schöningen
  37. ^ Website of the St. Matthew Foundation
  38. ^ Website Villa Arson
  39. ^ Website Museum Langmatt
  40. ^ Website Hall Art Foundation
  41. ^ Website of the König Galerie
  42. ^ Website of the Kunstmuseum Bern
  43. ^ Website Haus am Waldsee
  44. ^ Museum website
  45. ↑ site CCBB
  46. ↑ http://www.hal-berlin.de/ausstellung/black-bandits/
  47. ↑ https://usinekugler.ch/fonderie/fonderie-kugler/news-fonderie/280-utopie-picturale-2
  48. ↑ mewo-kunsthalle.de
  49. ↑ http://www.tamuseum.org.il/about-the-exhibition/i-am-a-berliner
  50. ↑ http://marta-herford.de/en/atelier-kueche-labore-der-sinne/
  51. ↑ freundevonfreunden.com
  52. ^ Norbert Bisky: German, born 1970. In: MoMA.org , accessed on February 9, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Bisky, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig