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Born 1980 in Salzburg. The Vienna-based artist, Walkowiak, has often been travelling to Asia for his art practice for many years. His works broadly cover interdisciplinary art, sculpture, multi-media, and new media art. Equipped with psychology and philosophy background, he specializes in delineating conceptual implications of his creations via vocabulary used in contemporary art.

Exhibition: Given: The Haunting Ghost

In his Given: The Haunting Ghost solo exhibition developed for the Soulangh Cultural Park, the artist Kay Walkowiak approaches the question of how spirits of the past still exist in the present. With the outstanding example of Marcel Duchamp, as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Kay Walkowiak opens up a cultural dialogue between traditional beliefs in ghosts and spirits in Taiwanese culture and the concept of „Hauntology“ by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Hauntology as a nature of being is an idea that inherently embeds the realm of the past in that of the present, the ghosts of the past returning to haunt us.

In an eclectic compilation of new works, Walkowiak sounds out the historical and socio-cultural impact of a belief system in spirits and the virtual layers of reality.