Peter Zizka

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

Life

Zizka trained as a restorer and then studied 1983 Graphics, Design and Visual Communication at the University of Design Offenbach am Main, inter alia, Adam Jankowski. At the same time he attended the Städel School in Frankfurt and studied, among other things Bruce McLean.

With Olaf Rahlwes conceptual art group memory, who worked at the interface between art and design until the early 1990s emerged. After the separation of Memory Zizka worked on projects in the area of ​​socially relevant designs and related in his work a less agitative position than that of guerrilla communication or Adbusters like Banksy. The best-known work from this period is the floor installation Virtual minefield with the Zizka gold at European Art Directors Club received. The work was shown amongst others in the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Foreign Office in Berlin and 2013 in the Main Gallery of the United Nations in New York. 2008 Zizka was able to compete for the appearance of the Kiel Week decide for themselves. 2011 was by Konstantin Grcic, the second design-oriented practice scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome. Since 2011, the installation will Symbiosis among others the Center for Art and Media Technology ( ZKM) in Karlsruhe shown, which explores the example of Burundi with the global small arms problem. 1.5 tons of weapons from the Hutu - Tutsi conflict were here demilitarized under UN supervision and transported to Germany.