• TIME RACE From the dawn of the late 1960s to the present. Positions on architecture, form, and time. May 23 and 24, 2025 Studio Schülke

    Time, like space and form, serves to describe what happens in the world. And: "Not everything is possible at all times," wrote Heinrich Wölfflin in 1915, the very year that Kazimir Malevich exhibited the famous "Black Square," which symbolized the end and new beginning in art, at the Dobytčina Gallery in Petrograd.

    Today, many of us still believe that works of art should be never seen before creations and not merely exceptional. This idea probably stems from our awareness of striking positions in art history that emerged during major upheavals or an atmosphere of renewal. In the contemporary and postmodern movements that followed the avant-gardes and modernism, however, the new thing was, that in a broad movement everything became possible – “anything goes”. Contemporary art and Postmodernism, as a whole, is therefore new and unique.

    But all movements were concerned with the present, with time, embedded in the past and the future. The question is whether art was seen as a movement “against time" or “with time" or defined itself as such.

    In our exhibition TIME RACE, we present works that, driven by a spirit of criticism of the then-present postwar modernism, turned against the times; works that found their foundation in the spirit of optimism of the time and, so to speak, moved with the times; and works that, given the artists' year of birth, cannot be considered avant-garde or the result of a spirit of optimism at all. This, of course, does not diminish their value, for the positions presented always point beyond themselves and reflect the events of their time.

    ARTISTS: Walter Michael Pühringer (ZÜND-UP) / Gottfried Hoellwarth / Christian Eisenberger / Bettina Schülke / Begi Guggenheim / Patryck Chan /

    CURATED BY: Andreas Schlichtner

    TIME RACE From the dawn of the late 1960s to the present. Positions on architecture, form, and time. May 23 and 24, 2025 Studio Schülke

    photo Art Collection Schlichtner

TIME RACE From the dawn of the late 1960s to the present. Positions on architecture, form, and time.

KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Set-up AI-Café mit Lukas Lex und Moritz Wildburger

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? / Set-up of the AI-café with Lukas Lex and Moritz Wildburger
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Set-up des Zapfenteppichs mit Christian Eisenberger und Oľga Paštéková

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? / Set-up of cone carpet with Christian Eisenberger and Oľga Paštéková
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / kurz vor der Eröffnung 17:00 Uhr am 24.01.2024

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2024

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? / shortly before the opening 5 p.m. on January 24th 2024
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Eröffnung 17:00 Uhr am 24.01.2024

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2024

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? opening 5 p.m. on January 24th 2024
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Ausstellungseröffnung 24.01.2024

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2024

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? opening January 24th 2024
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Eröffnungsrede: Botschafträtin Sandra Diepenseifen, Direktorin des Österreichischen Kulturforums (Mitte) und Marcela Mokráňová (Kulturforum)

photo courtesy of Dominik Sepp

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? opening speech: Councelor Sandra Diepenseifen, director of Austrian Cultural Forum and Marcela Mokráňová (Cultural Forum)
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Moritz Wildburger, Katarína Lesná, Andreas Schlichtner, Sandra Diepenseifen, Marcela Mokráňová, Anna Pelz, Lukas Lex, Christian Eisenberger, Begi Guggenheim, Daniel Mazanik, Vanessa Mazanik

photo courtesy of Dominik Sepp (edited by Moritz Wildburger)

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Moritz Wildburger, Katarína Lesná, Andreas Schlichtner, Sandra Diepenseifen, Marcela Mokráňová, Anna Pelz, Lukas Lex, Christian Eisenberger, Begi Guggenheim, Daniel Mazanik, Vanessa Mazanik
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? / Moritz Wildburger, Andreas Schlichtner, Anna Pelz, Lukas Lex, Christian Eisebenberger, Begi Guggenheim, Daniel Mazanik, Vanessa Mazanik

photo courtesy of Dominik Sepp (edited by Moritz Wildburger)

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Moritz Wildburger, Andreas Schlichtner, Anna Pelz, Lukas Lex, Christian Eisebenberger, Begi Guggenheim, Daniel Mazanik, Vanessa Mazanik
KUNST! KREATIVITÄT IN ZEITEN KÜNSTLICHER INTELLIGENZ? /  Christian Eisenberger

photo courtesy of Dominik Sepp, Christian Eisenberger © Bildrecht Wien 2024

ART! CREATIVITY IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? Christian Eisenberger