• 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.

Art Collection Schlichtner // exhibition view memories 1 PARALLEL Vienna 2022

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Art Collection Schlichtner // exhibition view memories 1 PARALLEL Vienna 2022
Gail Winbury / Deep Dark Woods

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / Deep Dark Woods
2020-21
76 x 56 cm / 30 x 22 inches
Öl und Pigmentstift auf Arches Papier
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (1)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (1)
2020
152,4 x 274,32 cm / 60 x 108 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell auf Leinen
Hadrien de Corneillan // Géométries

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Géométries
2017
65 x 92 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
David Hicks // The correct answer is often not the right answer, Anomoly Projects

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // The correct answer is often not the right answer, Anomoly Projects
Basting trays, film, photocopier manual bound with high performance bicycle inner tube with juggling balls on reception desk
Susan Lisbin // Dress Up

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Dress Up
2020
15,24 x 15,24 x 22,86 cm / 6 x 6 x 9 inches
niedrig gebrannter Ton, Terra Sigillata und Acryl
Sabine Hilscher //  HYPHEMIND, Gruenspantraeuschling, Pilzgrosskostuem, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gruenspantraeuschling verdigris agaric, mushroom costume, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
freakygreenfish / holy algorithm, portrait

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek and Luca Mussnig@ Bildrecht Wien 2022

freakygreenfish / holy algorithm, portrait
2022
Begi Guggenheim // O.T.

Photo courtesy of Ismini Adami

Begi Guggenheim // no title
2019
75 x 30 x 35 cm
Plastilin