Peter Zizka

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Exhibition "for a Mine-Free World -20 years of the international campaign to Ban Landmines" in the Main Gallery United Nations of Zizka's conceptual art installation "virtual minefield", New York 2013
celebrations of 25 years german reunification, typographic Installation of Peter Zizka on the St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt 2015

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

Peter Zizka, Talk on "Value of Design", Berlin 2016

Life

Zizka is the younger son of the social politician Walburga Zizka and Cyril Zizka, who came from a Prague sign painter family. After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main) , Zizka trained as a restorer and then studied graphics, design and visual communication at the Offenbach am Main University of Design a . a. with Adam Jankowski . At the same time he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt and studied a. a. at Bruce McLean .

In 1989 Zizka founded the design office Heine / Lenz / Zizka together with Achim Heine and Michael Lenz .

With Olaf Rahlwes, the conceptual art group Memory emerged in the mid-1980s and worked at the interface between art and design until the early 1990s. After separating from Memory , Zizka worked on projects in the field of socially relevant design and took a less agitative position in his work than that of the communication guerrilla or an adbuster like Banksy . The best-known work from this period is the floor installation Virtual Minefield, with which Zizka received Gold at the European Art Directors Club . The work was shown in the Kunsthal Rotterdam , in the Foreign Office in Berlin and in 2013 in the Main Gallery of the United Nations in New York . In 2008 Zizka won the competition for the appearance of the Kiel Week . In 2011, after Konstantin Grcic, he was the second design-oriented internship recipient at Villa Massimo in Rome. Since 2011 the installation Symbiosis u. a. at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, which uses the example of Burundi to deal with the global small arms problem. 1.5 tons of weapons from the Hutu - Tutsi conflict were demilitarized under UN supervision and transported to Germany. For the 25th anniversary of German reunification in 2015, he generated “word fusion” at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , a “language machine” controlled by a randomized algorithm that fuses typical language elements from the former GDR and West Germany into new terms.

Zizka is also a columnist on design for the Swiss balance sheet magazine . He works as a freelance curator for the Museum of Applied Art .

Zizka lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin .

Selected literature

  • “Ego collective. Peter Zizka «, ed. by Anna Duque y González and Matthias Wagner K , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-364-4 .
  • »Generative head theater with democratic design?«, In: Power of Diversity - the crossing lines project, ed. by Matthias Rettner Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95749-137-4 , pp. 96–113.
  • "Hostyienpyxis", in: Vom Verbergen, ed. by Matthias Wagner K, Julia Kartesalo, exhibition catalog Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Walther König bookstore , Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-155-8 , pp. 108–111.
  • “Bridges into nothing”, in: materialist, issue 03, 1/2017, pp. 60–69.
  • »Interview with Peter Zizka«, in: Successful as a designer. Evaluate and calculate design services, ed. by Joachim Kobuss and Alexander Bretz, Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-03821-991-0 , pp. 328–329.
  • "Word Fusion", in: Event Design Yearbook, ed. by Sabine Marines and Janina Poesch, Av edition , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-89986-242-3 , pp. 212-215.
  • "Golden Redistribution", in: Divine Golden Genial. World Formula Golden Section ?, ed. by Lieselotte Kugler and Oliver Götze, exhibition catalog Museum for Communication Berlin , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2689-1 , p. 208.
  • "Worrying solves nothing for me.", In: The Happy Show Paper, ed. by Matthias Wagner K and Peter Zizka, exhibition catalog Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 3-88270-118-8 , o. p.
  • "The monadic pixel juggler and the Frankfurt School", in: Alles neu! 100 Years of New Typography and New Graphics in Frankfurt am Main, exhibition catalog Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Verlag AV edition, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3899862461 , pp. 302–305.
  • »The good old and the best new«, in: art kaleidoscope 2/2013, press and publishing company for magazines and new media, Frankfurt 2013, p. 10.
  • "We the communication animators", in: Gestaltcreate, ed. by Prof. Bernd Kracke, Verlag AV edition, 2013, p. 174.
  • »Shrill or quiet«, in: beef magazine for communication, Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt, 2010, p. 76.
  • »Design and Art«, in: Design Report 5/09 ISSN  0932-3724
  • »Designing The Brand Experience«, with texts by Robin Landa, Peter Zizka and others. a., Page One Publishing, Beijing / Hong Kong / Singapore 2008, p. 11.
  • "Hasta la Vista Baby!", In: form magazine No. 213, Verlag Form, Frankfurt 2008.
  • "Peter Zizkas Graphic blows", in: Form 218/2008 ISSN  0015-7678
  • »Valuable in between«, in: Page Design Magazin 06/07, Ebner Verlag, Hamburg, 2007.
  • »The wrong step can be fatal«, in: TAZ, December 2, 2004.
  • »Francoforte-7Bello«, ed. by Achim Heine, Michael Lenz and Peter Zizka, Schaden Verlag, 2003.
  • "Objective Beauty", in: Welt am Sonntag, November 24, 2002.
  • »The color of taste«, in: Horizont 18/2002.
  • "The tool as the eye of sensitive stars", in: Horizont 23/2002.
  • "Memory 30 - a book", Walther König Frankfurt.

Curated and coordinated exhibitions

2020

2019

2016

Selected solo and group exhibitions

2016

2015

2013

  • "Symbiosis - 1.5 tons of global involvement", Kunsthalle E-werk, Freiburg
  • "For a mine-free world", United Nations , Main Gallery, New York
  • "Free View", Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden

2012

  • "Night of the Villa Massimo", Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • “Defense. Survival strategies in nature, economy, politics and everyday life «, Charles and Agnes Vögele Foundation, Zurich-Pfäffikon

2011

2009

2005

2004

1997

  • »Memory« with Olaf Rahlwes, Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen,

Further exhibitions by the group "Memory" from 1985-1994 a. a. at Fisherman's Studios, London, Kunstraum Konstantin Adamopulos, Frankfurt, Galerie AK, Hans Sworowski, Frankfurt, Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Berlin, Galerie Single 74, Amsterdam, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg and Galerie Schneider, Konstanz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Heine / Lenz / Zizka website
  2. ↑ [2] Bilanz Schweiz contributor page
  3. ^ [3] Exhibition website »Vom Verbergen« 
  4. ↑ [4] Exhibition website »Anette Lenz«
  5. ^ [5] Exhibition website »Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty«
  6. ↑ [6] Exhibition website "Happy Show"
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Exhibition website »Alles neu! 100 Years of New Typography and New Graphics in Frankfurt am Main « @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museumangewandtekunst.de
personal data
SURNAME Zizka, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1961