A shift in artistic perspective
The artists Norbert Bisky and Erez Israeli are swapping their studios in spring 2015.
Norbert Bisky is regarded as one of Germany’s leading contemporary artists. Just recently, until mid-February 2015, the Baltic Sea city of Rostock devoted a major exhibition to the artist, who was born in Leipzig in 1970. It presented 80 paintings from all periods of his creative work. The exhibition prompted Art, the German fine arts magazine, to publish a 16-page feature describing how Bisky’s art has changed in recent years: from bright and colourful subjects featuring young men with curly blond hair to dark, gloomy and explosive landscapes. It may well be the case that Bisky’s view of the world is currently undergoing another fundamental transformation: in spring 2015 he is spending several weeks as visiting artist in Tel Aviv. Organised by schir – Art in the German-Israeli Context, an initiative by Friederike Schir that realises projects between cultural professionals in German-speaking countries and Israel, Bisky and the Israeli artist Erez Israeli are swapping their studios in Berlin and Tel Aviv for a number of weeks. Whether this shift in perspective has any influence on the work of the two artists can be discovered in 2016, when Galerie Crone and Givon Art Gallery stage exhibitions in Tel Aviv in which the results of the studio swap are presented. In spring 2015 both artists show their works already in two exhibitions in Berlin.
