Kay Walkowiak

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Kay Walkowiak (* 1980 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian sculptor, photographer and video artist.

Life

Kay Walkowiak studied photography and video art with Eva Schlegel at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , sculpture & multimedia with Erwin Wurm and art and communicative practice with Werner Feiersinger , Tanja Widmann and Michael Kienzer at the University of Applied Arts , Vienna, and Expanded Expression from Tokyo Zokei University , Japan.

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Walkowiak's work is a complex mixture of installation, sculpture, photography and video art that unites strategies of conceptual art and post-minimal art. In many of his works he explores the historical and sociocultural handling of forms and questions their function as a projection surface for timeless utopias.

Awards

Solo exhibitions

  • 2017 Requiem of Lost Forms, K&K Telegrafenamt , Vienna, Austria
  • 2016 The Haunting Ghost, Soulangh Cultural Park , Tainan, Taiwan
  • 2016 The City Beautiful, Galerie im Turm , Berlin, Germany
  • 2016 Forms In Time, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts , Vienna, Austria
  • 2016 Divine Monochromes, Galerie Crone Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 2016 Supreme Forms, Wittgenstein House , Vienna, Austria
  • 2015 Habitat, Neuer Kunstverein Wien , Vienna, Austria
  • 2015 Abstraction Rhapsody (with Anna-Sophie Berger), wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria
  • 2014 Minimal Vandalism, Antimatter Media Art Festival, Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
  • 2014 A Different Order (together with Nandita Raman), FJK3, Vienna, Austria
  • 2014 Ritual Union, Feldbuschwiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Making Sense Out of Abstraction, Feldbuschwiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Minimal Vandalism, Feldbuschwiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Making Sense Out of Abstraction, Salzburger Kunstverein , Salzburg, Austria
  • 2013 Stages of Rest, Kunstquartier, Hospiz am Arlberg , St. Christoph, Austria
  • 2013 Transtone (together with Nazim Yilmaz), Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 2012 The Mechanics of Form, Tiroler Kunstpavillon , Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2012 Rectangles, The Lust Gallery , Vienna, Austria
  • 2010 Kay Walkowiak, MAGAZIN, Vienna, Austria
  • 2008 Toko doesn ́t want to sleep alone, Node Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Collectors Agenda: In the studio - Kay Walkowiak. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Collectors Agenda: In the studio - Kay Walkowiak. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ Zeller Van Almsick: CV Kay Walkowiak. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Walkowiak, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor, photographer and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg