Peter Zizka

celebrations of 25 years German reunification, typographic Installation of Peter Zizka on the St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt

Peter Zizka (born December 16, 1961) is a German designer and conceptual artist.

Peter Zizka
Born (1961-12-16) 16 December 1961
Nationality German
Education Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
Städelschule
Bruce McLean
Known for conceptual art
Notable work The Virtual Minefield
MEMORY 1–24
Movement MEMORY
Elected German Designers Club

Life

Zizka is the younger son of the social politician Walburga Zizka (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) and Cyril Zizka, of czech descendant. Initially trained as an art restorer, Peter Zizka went to study graphics, design, and visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach in 1983. At the same time, he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt and studied under Bruce McLean, among others.

In 1989, together with Achim Heine and Michael Lenz, Zizka founded the design company Heine/Lenz/Zizka.[1]

Parallel, in the early 1990s, Zizka and Olaf Rahlwes explored the interface between art and design with their MEMORY conceptual art exhibitions.

After leaving MEMORY, Zizka worked on design projects that were socially relevant. In his work, Zizka adopts a less agitative position than that of a communication guerrilla or an adbuster such as Banksy. The most well known of his work from this series is The Virtual Minefield,[2][3] the first floor-based installation spanning art and design. Zizka won the gold award from the European Art Directors Club for The Virtual Minefield. It was shown at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Foreign Office in Berlin and the Hygiene Museum Dresden among others.

In 2008, Zizka won the design competition for the Kiel Week corporate design,[4] following the likes of Wim Crouwel (1998), Fons Hickmann (2002), and Klaus Hesse (2006).

2010 he starts an art Project in Burundi to render weapons of the Hutu Tutsi conflict harmless in real terms and at the same time initiate a process, by means of aesthetisation, which is relevant to society to open up a discussion on the issue of small arms tangible on a broad communication level.

2011 he received the fellowship of the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo.

Zizka writes about design for the Swiss Bilanz magazine[5] and is a freelance curator for the Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.

Peter Zizka works and lives in Frankfurt am Main und Berlin. His brother, Georg Zizka, is the Head of Botany and Molecular Evolution of the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt.[6]

Memberships

Since 2009, Zizka is a board member of the German Designers Club.

Curated Exhibitions

2016

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2016

2015

2013

2012

2011

2009

2005

2004

1997

Further exhibitions of the »Memory«-Group from 1985-1994 include Fisherman’s Studios, London, Kunstraum Konstantin Adamopulos, Frankfurt, Galerie AK, Hans Sworowski, Frankfurt, Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Berlin, Galerie Single 74, Amsterdam, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg und Galerie Schneider, Konstanz.

Works

Bibliography

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Heine/Lenz/Zizka
  2. ↑ Deutsche Welle about the virtual minefield
  3. ↑ virtual minefield
  4. ↑ Kiel Week 2008
  5. ↑ swiss bilanz magazine contributor peter zizka
  6. ↑ Senckenberg Research Institute and History Museum
  7. ↑ Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Happy Show
  8. ↑ New Everything! Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, A Century of New Typography and New Graphic Design in Frankfurt am Main
  9. ↑ Under Arms. Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Fire & Forget 2
  10. ↑ Kunstverein Wiesbaden »Open View«
  11. ↑ Villa Massimo, »Night of the Villa Massimo«,,
  12. ↑ Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, »Symbiosis – 1.5 Tons of Global Entanglement«
  13. ↑ theater PAN.OPTIKUM about »symbiosis«
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