About

Born in 1970 in GDR, Norbert Bisky has spent the last 25 years delving into the notion of political utopia, looking at its practical ambiguities and the importance of the ideology. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and his discovery of the West led him to choose a career as an artist. He has since built an exuberant and engaged art practice on what was both a historical and personal upheaval.

The series of oils on canvas with their shimmering colours, almost unbearably vivid, are rooted in the socialist realism of his childhood as well as the codes of contemporary hedonism. Ludology is …