Meine Oma(88) / NS-Education, transgenerationel Transmission-Game / with ROTxBLAU
COYOTE / Tamagotchi-Realtime-Management Adventure / with ROTxBLAU
Truefake/ Protest-Simulation-App / with ROTxBLAU
The Moinis / Hopepunk-Music, Performance, Video
Corona Killer / Spontaneous Lockdown Reaction
UNINVITED / Surveillance from a new Species / collaborative UBERMORGEN & Nye Thompson
THEY Oh!K / Festival-Game / collaborative UBERMORGEN
Echo Chamber / Decentralized Reverb-Plattform
BREITBART RED / Alt-Right.plattform / collaborative UBERMORGEN
MANKE / New Politics for a new Society
Deepcase / AI-Therapy
Schaltkreis / Cybernetic - Concert - Game
Circle / VR-Game / collaborative work
roomYou / analogue Facebook/ collaborative work
Überwältigungen / immersive Nature-Simulatoin
No Limit / narcissistic Video-Art / collaborative UBERMORGEN
Keilerei / fighting Game for Festivals
Alexander Zenker (*1988, GDR)
Alexander Zenker is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is located at the intersection of pop culture and interaction.
With a Master of Fine Arts from the Kunsthochschule Kassel, he has made a name for himself as a game artist, interactive artist, 2D designer and performer. Zenker assisted with the net art duo UBERMORGEN from 2015, where he worked on international projects on psychopathology (no-limit.org, 2015), the alt-right (breitbart.red, 2020) and artificial evolution (UNINVITED, 2019).
Today, Zenker develops “Emotional Realistic Games” with his team at his self-founded game studio ROTxBLAU, which explore the connection between game studies and pop culture. With games about the transmission of Nazi education (Meine Oma(88), 2022-), fake news (TrueFake, 2021) and the coronavirus pandemic (Coronakiller, 2020), the studio has received multiple grants and collaborates such as game designer Allison Yang Jing, the Amadeo Antonio Foundation or the political magazine Veto. The games are distributed on the platforms Steam, itch.io and in the app stores.
As co-founder of the hobby-pop band The Moinis, Zenker performs impulsively and catchily between hopepunk, classism, Saxon rap and pop culture. After two albums, four music videos such as Drecksch (2021), Or'Ney (2019), Gucke Her (2019) and various gigs, the band has established itself as an underground pop icon in Leipzig and the surrounding area.
In addition, Zenker developed analog spaces of interactive installations such as Schaltkreis – all under one tone(2017), roomYou (2016), Überwältigungen (2015), posing questions between power, digitality and coexistence.
2024
Panel Discussion – Meine Oma(88), Re.publica, Berlin (upcoming)
Presentation – Meine Oma(88), A.MAZE Indie Game Festival, Berlin (upcoming)
2023
Panel Discussion – Meine Oma(88), Symposium #digital_memory, Medienzentrum Munich
Panel – Meine Oma(88), Goethe-Institut, Mexico City
Interview – Meine Oma(88), Online, Podcast, Dom Schott, OK Cool
Radio Interview – Meine Oma(88), Kompressor, Dradio Kultur
Presentation – Meine Oma(88) - A.MAZE Indie Game Festival, Berlin
2022
Panel – Meine Oma(88), Game Atlas – Game Designer Conference, Current Plans, Hong Kong
Panel – Meine Oma(88), Ecommemoration Conference - Games and History, Hamburg
Residency – in cooperation with Allison Yang Jing, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong
Funding - Meine Oma(88), Project Development Funding – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Game Accelerator – Meine Oma(88), Game Studies, University of Bayreuth
2021
Interview – Game Designer Interview with Allison Yang Jing, Online Magazine “Yi-Magazin”, Goethe-Institut
Presentation - COYOTE, PGA Game Festival, Poznan, with ROTxBLAU
Presentation - COYOTE, Lange Nacht der Computerspiele Leipzig, with ROTxBLAU
Panel – COYOTE, Lange Nacht der Computerspiele Leipzig, with ROTxBLAU
Funding – Memopolis, Erasmus+, with ROTxBLAU
2020
Funding - EXIST Startup Grant, TROPHIX Ecosystem Simulation, with ROTxBLAU
Performance - Deepcase, with Hitness.Club, rc3, Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig
Funding – TrueFake, Amadeu Antonio Foundation, with ROTxBLAU
Winner - Pitch-Jam – Meine Oma(88) – Foundation for Digital Game Culture, Berlin
Exhibition - BREITBART RED – Exhibition, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Performance - Lindenow TV – Lindenow #16 Gallery Festival, Hitness.Club, Leipzig
Funding – Coronakiller, Corona Funding, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019
Exhibition - BREITBART RED - the Alt-Right Complex, HMKV
Exhibition - Free It - Water Event, Yoko Ono, MdBK Leipzig
Exhibition - Deepcase - Website, Contribution, Das Erotik Magazin, Leipzig
Exhibition - MANKE – Ostlichter e.V., Kontor 80, Leipzig
Residency – Electro Putere, in cooperation with UBERMORGEN & Nye Thompson, Bucharest, Romania
Show - Schaltkreis - with Flying Moon in Space, POCHEN Symposium, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Intervention - Echo Chamber & Äther Lindenow IV – Radio, Lindenow.org #15, Noch Besser Leben, Leipzig
Performance - THEY Oh!K – with Ubermorgen, Next Level Festival 2019, Zollverein Essen
Release - the Moinis – Online Show, Video Release - Youtube , Album Release - Spotify
2018
Intervention - Äther Lindenow III – Radio Show, at Lindenow #14 art festival, Leipzig
Performance - THEY - with Ubermorgen, at Next Level Festival, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
2017
Intervention - Äther Lindenow II - Radio Show, Lindenow #13 art festival, Leipzig
Exhibition - Schaltkreis – with Flying Moon in Space, documenta+ , INTERIM, Kassel
Graduation – Master of Fine Arts, Schaltkreis & User Password - Exam Exhibition, College of Art (Kunsthochschule Kassel), Documentahalle Kassel
2016
Exhibition - roomYou, at Westpol Leipzig
Exhibition - Überwältigungen, Stellwerk, Kassel
Exhibition - roomYou, Cryptocon, Hackerspace Sublab Leipzig
Intervention - Äther Lindenow I - Live Radio Show, Lindenow #12 art festival, Leipzig
Exhibition - roomYou, Technische Sammlungen, Datenspuren Dresden
Performance - Circle - Virtual Reality (VR) game installation, WISP Festival Leipzig
2015
Intervention - Nonviolent Communication - Keine Fische aber Grethen, Kohren Sahlis
Show - The Relevant Nonsense, cooperation with Academy of Fine Arts, MOÉ, Vienna
Exhibition - Überwältigungen, BISTRO 21, Leipzig
Exhibition - No Limit, with Ubermorgen, Kunstverein Kassel
Residency – No Limit, with Ubermorgen, Mauritius
Erasmus – Exchange Semester, Academy of Fine Arts, Marina Grzinic, Vienna
2014
Exhibition - with Olayanju Dada, at FBI Kassel
Exhibition - Don´t Shoot - Tiny Palace - Kunstverein Kassel