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 conceptual artist and designer.

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 initially trained as an art restorer. In 1983, he went on to study graphics, design, and visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. At the same time, he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt and studied under Bruce McLean, among others.

Zizka founded the MEMORY conceptual art group together with Olaf Rahlwes. MEMORY's international exhibitions explored the interface between art and design in the early 1990s.

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,[1] 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 Kieler Woche Festival, 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 make the 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

2014 he writes about design for the Swiss Bilanz magazine, since 2015 he works also as a freelance curator for the Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt

Memberships

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

Bibliography

Works

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Bölinger, Mathias (29 November 2005). "Art Against Land Mines". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.theater-panoptikum.de/1636.0.html

External links

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