Peter Zizka

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

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Peter Zizka
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Peter Zizka giving a design talk in Berlin
Born (1961-12-16) 16 December 1961 (age 63)
NationalityGerman
Education Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
Städelschule
Bruce McLean
Known forconceptual art
Notable work The Virtual Minefield
MEMORY 1–24
MovementMEMORY
ElectedGerman Designers Club

Life

Zizka is the younger son of politician Walburga Zizka (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) and Cyril Zizka, of Czech descendant. Initially trained as an art restorer, Zizka studied graphics, design and visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach in 1983. He also 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] In the early 1990s, Zizka and Olaf Rahlwes explored the interface between art and design with their MEMORY conceptual art exhibitions.

He then created The Virtual Minefield , [2] [3] a 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).

In 2010 he started an art project in Burundi about the weapons of the Hutu Tutsi conflict. In 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.

Zizka works and lives in Frankfurt am Main und Berlin.

Curated exhibitions

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

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.

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