Norbert Bisky Echo, 2026

In Echo, executed in oil on canvas, Norbert Bisky depicts a bare-chested young man caught in mid-motion, surrounded by dynamic color fields in vibrant oranges, blues, and yellows. Bisky's figures—painted in bright and seductive colors yet fragmented, falling, untethered—have always been a symbol of the precarious nature of man in totalitarian societies and under capitalism. The state of the city, and society at large, is represented by a heady mix of quotations from urban life. The streets are alive in these paintings but also in a feverish dream of change, upheaval, and decay.