# Peter Zizka

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German designer and conceptual artist

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**Peter Zizka** (born 16 December 1961) is a German designer and [conceptual artist](/source/Conceptual_art).

Peter Zizka Peter Zizka giving a design talk in Berlin Born (1961-12-16) 16 December 1961 (age 64) 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 politician Walburga Zizka ([Christian Democratic Union of Germany](/source/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](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Gestaltung_Offenbach) in 1983. He also attended the [Städelschule](/source/St%C3%A4delschule) in Frankfurt and studied under [Bruce McLean](/source/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](/source/Conceptual_art) exhibitions.

He then created *[The Virtual Minefield](/source/Virtual_minefield)*,[2][3] a floor-based installation spanning art and design. Zizka won the gold award from the European [Art Directors Club](/source/Art_Directors_Club) for *The Virtual Minefield.* It was shown at the [Kunsthal](/source/Kunsthal) Rotterdam, the [Foreign Office](/source/Foreign_Office) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and the [Hygiene Museum Dresden](/source/German_Hygiene_Museum) among others.

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

In 2010 he started an art project in Burundi about the weapons of the [Hutu](/source/Hutu) [Tutsi](/source/Tutsi) conflict. In 2011, he received the fellowship of the Deutsche Akademie Rom [Villa Massimo](/source/Villa_Massimo).

Zizka writes about design for the Swiss [Bilanz](/source/BILANZ) magazine[5] and is a freelance curator for the [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt).

Zizka works and lives in [Frankfurt am Main](/source/Frankfurt_am_Main) und [Berlin](/source/Berlin).

## Curated exhibitions

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

2016

- »[Stefan Sagmeister](/source/Stefan_Sagmeister): The Happy Show«, [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), Frankfurt. This exhibition was originally organized by the [Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art%2C_Philadelphia) and curated by [Claudia Gould](/source/Claudia_Gould).[6]

- »New Everything! A Century of New Typography and New Graphic Design in Frankfurt am Main«, together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Klemp, Prof. em. Friedrich Friedl and Matthias Wagner K, [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), Frankfurt.[7]

## Selected solo and group exhibitions

2016

- »Under Arms. Fire & Forget 2«, curated by Ellen Blumstein, Dr. Daniel Tyradellis und Matthias Wagner K, [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), Frankfurt[8]

2015

- »Secret Compartments«, [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), Frankfurt

- »Favourites. Favourite pieces from the private collections of Beckers and Landau«, Galerie Braubachstrasse9, Frankfurt

2013

- »Symbiosis - 1,5 Tonnen globale Verwicklung«, Kunsthalle E-werk, Freiburg

- »For a mine-free world«, [United Nations](/source/United_Nations), Main Gallery, New York

- »Open View«, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden[9]

2012

- »Night of the Villa Massimo«, [Martin-Gropius-Bau](/source/Martin-Gropius-Bau), Berlin[10]

- »Abwehr. Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag«, Stiftung Charles und Agnes Vögele, Zürich-Pfäffikon

2011

- »Symbiosis – 1.5 Tons of Global Entanglement«, ZKM [Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe](/source/Center_for_Art_and_Media_Karlsruhe), Karlsruhe[11]

- »Festa del‘ estate«, German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, Rome

2009

- »War and Medicine«, [German Hygiene Museum](/source/German_Hygiene_Museum), Dresden

2005

- »De soldaat die nooit slaapt«, [Kunsthal](/source/Kunsthal), Rotterdam

- »The virtual Minefield«, Stadthalle (Freiburg im Breisgau), Freiburg

- »The virtual Minefield«, [Schauspiel Frankfurt](/source/Schauspiel_Frankfurt), Frankfurt

- Lew Kopelew Forum, Cologne

2004

- »The virtual Minefield«, [Auswärtiges Amt](/source/Ausw%C3%A4rtiges_Amt), Lichthof, Berlin

1997

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

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

- *MEMORY 1-24*

- *Der Frankfurter Bankstuhlgang* (performance)

- *Bois de Boulogne* (fotoinstallation)

- *The Virtual Minefield* (installation)

- *IPRAY* (2006)

- *Outliner* (2008, installation)

- *Symbiosis/Burundi* (2010/11, installation) constructed from weapons which have been rendered unusable [12]

## Bibliography

This article contains a list that has not been properly sorted. Specifically, it does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, though not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order). See MOS:LISTSORT for more information. Please improve this article if you can. (November 2016)

- *Memory 30 – a book*, Walther König: Frankfurt

- ROGUE, Konstantin Adamopoulos: MEMORY, a sign of intelligence

- Page Designmagazin 10/95 a perfect triangle, Page Verlag

- FrancoForte, Verlag: Schaden u. Schaden [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-932187-31-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-932187-31-8)

- Horizont 18/2002 *colors of taste*

- Horizont 23/2002 *Das Werkzeug als Auge sensibler Stars*

- Welt am Sonntag, 24. November 2002 *Objektive Schönheit*

- TAZ, 2. Dezember 2004 *Der falsche Tritt kann tödlich sein*

- Gestalte / Create – Design Medien Kunst, Hrsg. v. Bernd Kracke 2007,HFG of–main, Wir die Kommunikationannimateure [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-89986-092-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-89986-092-6)

- Hundert t-Variationen, editor Jan Teunen, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-87439-544-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-87439-544-8)

- form 213, Hasta la Vista Baby!, Verlag Form [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-936560-50-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-936560-50-1)

- Padamm, Verlag otto Lembeck, die Zweiweltenoper, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-87476-520-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-87476-520-6)

- *Design Walk*, Psyrri, Greek Graphic Designers Association

- Page Designmagzine 06/07 Wertvolles Dazwischen, Page Verlag

- Form 219/2008 "Peter Zizkas Graphic blows" [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-7643-8615-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7643-8615-0)

- Beef 03/2008 (interview) *Designer geben den Takt vor* ISSN 1866-1890

- Lookbook 2.0 2009 *Simple, Multiple*

- *Designing the Brand Experience*, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [981-245-732-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/981-245-732-1)

- Revision 1/2009 "Design-lotto easy going"

- Egokollektiv. Peter Zizka«, edited by Anna Duque y González and Matthias Wagner K, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2018, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-96098-364-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-96098-364-4).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [\[1\]](https://www.hlz.de/en/start) Heine/Lenz/Zizka

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [\[2\]](http://www.dw.com/en/art-against-land-mines/a-1796258) [Deutsche Welle](/source/Deutsche_Welle) about the virtual minefield

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [\[3\]](http://symbiosisproject.de/Symbiosis/United_NAtions.html) virtual minefield

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [\[4\]](https://www.kieler-woche.de/service/corporate_design/cd2008/sieger2008.php) [Kiel Week](/source/Kiel_Week) 2008

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [\[5\]](http://www.bilanz.ch/kontributoren/Peter-Zizka/5008) swiss bilanz magazine contributor peter zizka

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [\[6\]](http://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/museum/exhibitions/stefan-sagmeister-the-happy-show.html) [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), Happy Show

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [\[7\]](http://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/museum/exhibitions/new-everything-a-century-of-new-typography.html) New Everything! [Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_angewandte_Kunst_Frankfurt), A Century of New Typography and New Graphic Design in Frankfurt am Main

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [\[8\]](http://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/press/under-arms-fire-forget-2.html) Under Arms. Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Fire & Forget 2

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [\[9\]](http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/en/exhibitions/exibition-details/open-view-adam-jankowski-and-artists-of-his-class-for-painting-at-the-offenbach-university-of-art-and-design-1987aEUR2013dirk-baumanns-dorothee-diebold-bea-emsbach-goekhan-erdogan-oliver-flassel-parastou-forouhar-sebastian.html) Kunstverein Wiesbaden »Open View«

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [\[10\]](http://www.villamassimo.de/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-2012/die-nacht-der-volla-massimo-im-martin-gropius-bau) Villa Massimo, »Night of the [Villa Massimo](/source/Villa_Massimo)«,,

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [\[11\]](http://zkm.de/en/event/2011/11/symbiosis-15-tons-of-global-entanglement) Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, »Symbiosis – 1.5 Tons of Global Entanglement«

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [\[12\]](http://www.theater-panoptikum.de/en/2016/04/symbiosis-2/) theater [PAN.OPTIKUM](/source/PAN.OPTIKUM) about »symbiosis«

## External links

- [Kunsthal Rotterdam](https://web.archive.org/web/20110103220715/http://www.kunsthal.nl/22-324-De_soldaat_die_nooit_slaapt.html)

- [medico international anti landmine campaign](http://www.medico-international.de/kampagne/minen/rdm/katalog.asp)

- [Workshop Vitra Design Museum](http://www.digital-revolution.de)

- [Interview of Deutschen Designer Clubs with P.Zizka](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828041607/http://www.ddc.de/Interview_Zizka.htm)

- [talk](https://web.archive.org/web/20080203050526/http://netzradio.kisd.de/nonstereo.html) with [Stefan Sagmeister](/source/Stefan_Sagmeister) at the [KISD](/source/K%C3%B6ln_international_school_of_design)

- [Projectpage of Symbiosis/Burundi](http://www.symbiosisproject.de)

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