• 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.

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
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
Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom Manuskript

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom manuscript
1999
Susan Lisbin // Relation II

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Relation II
2019
33,02 x 30,48 x 25,4 cm / 13 x 12 x 10 inches
niedrig gebrannter Ton und Acryl
Gail Winbury / Her Favorite Fairy Tale

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / Her favourite Fairy Tale
2019
152 x 122 cm / 60 x 48 inches
Öl und Wachs auf Leinwand
Anna Pelz // Looking At Myself Through Virtual Realities 2

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Looking At Myself Through Virtual Realities 2
2018
100 x 80 cm / 39,37 x 31,5 inches
Acryl, Ölkreide, Sprayfarbe auf Leinwand
Mile Saula // Lost nowhere

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Lost nowhere
2021
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Klaudia Stoeckl // Winterbild Spuren

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Winterbild Spuren
2019
60 x 60 cm / 23,6 x 23,6 inches
Öl auf Leinwand