Education
At the same time, he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt and studied under Bruce McLean, among others
At the same time, he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt and studied under Bruce McLean, among others
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. 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, the first floor-based installation spanning art and design. lieutenant was shown at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Foreign Office in Berlin and the Hygiene Museum Dresden among others
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.
Since 2009, Zizka is a board member of the German Designers Club.