Even upon first sight, his paintings are imprinted in one’s mind as exuberant, colourful, image-laden works. When speaking about his early works, influences of East German social-realism aesthetics are usually mentioned – serving as inspiration were memories of his childhood in East Germany, images from children’s books and Pioneer posters, as well as from socialist propaganda ephemera. However, in recent years he has shifted to darker themes – of disaster, disease and decapitation – all the while retaining a consummate painterliness that is the hallmark of his work. All of this Bisky then intertwines with Christian ideology, art history, gay culture, pornography, and apocalyptic visions. His figures, in many cases, are floating, falling or tumbling, without any gravitational axis.