Norbert Bisky

Norbert Bisky (b. Leipzig, 1970) lives and works in Berlin and Málaga. He studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts with Georg Baselitz and Jim Dine and at Universidad Complutense in Madrid. From 2008 to 2010, Norbert Bisky was a visiting professor at the Geneva Academy of Fine Arts HEAD, from 2016 to 2018 at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2015, he swapped his studio in Berlin for three months with the artist Erez Israeli and worked in Tel Aviv.

Norbert Bisky is one of the most important representatives of contemporary figurative painting. The artist formulates personal experiences of terror, trips to Brazil and influences from the media world with colourful tones to create scenes of beauty, sexuality, violence and destruction.

In 2013, he created the stage design for the Staatsballett Berlin's performance of Masse, which took place in the Halle im Berghain. His work Vertigo has been permanently installed in the entrance area since May 2017. For the Stuttgart State Opera in cooperation with the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, he directed and created the stage design for the play Die Schöne Müllerin in 2024. Until December 2025, the series of works colaba is part of the new presentation This is Tomorrow of the 20th and 21st century collection at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.