“The traveler leaves no trace because he keeps pace with the movement of things,” is the comment of the philosopher Byung-Chul Han on an old Chinese saying, and thereby refers to a Far Eastern tradition of the relationship with form that, in contrast with the Western form, primarily conceived of as substance, is oriented to real absence. In an eclectic compilation of new works, Walkowiak sounds out the historically and socio-culturally characterized approach to form and questions its functional positing as a projection surface for timeless utopias.

The traveler abides for a moment between being and becoming. Form loses its substance and, through its emptiness, space expands. This closes the circle around the title of the exhibition, Forms in Time: everything hangs in the balance between concrete reality and absolute utopia.

A cooperation between the MAK and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Curator: Marlies Wirth, MAK Curator

Artist Talk

with Marlies Wirth, exhibition curator
Tue, 3 May 2016, 6 p.m.

Artist's Talk and Book Presentation

ARTIST'S TALK
Kay Walkowiak in conversation with Marlies Wirth, Curator, MAK, in the context of the viennacontemporary 2016
Sat, 24 Sept 2016, 4 p.m.

Followed by
BOOK PRESENTATION
Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time
MAK Columned Main Hall

Publication
Edited by Kay Walkowiak, with contributions by Arno Böhler, Sabine Folie, Marlies Wirth and Daniela Zyman, Verlag für moderne Kunst 2016; 232 pages, 141 color illustrations, 17 BW illustrations, € 32