• 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.

freakygreenfish / holy algorithm, Alan Neider / Small Purse

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and artists @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

freakygreenfish / holy algorithm, Alan Neider / Small Purse
2022
Sagar Sarkar // POP Bird

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // POP Bird
2020
121,92 x 121,92 cm / 48 x 48 inches
Öl, Acryl, Ölpastell auf Holz
Hadrien de Corneillan // Poste source 1

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Poste source 1
2017
81 x 116 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom Manuskript (Detail)

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom manuscript (detail)
1999
Klaudia Stoeckl // Winter Series (1)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Winter Series (1)
2020
40 x 40 cm / 15,75 x 15,75 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
David Hicks // Office politics, Provocation' series

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Office politics, Provocation' series
Office paper management accessories, cord, framed photo, found lighting, juggling ball, stone, sports sweatband, office equipment manual and found architectural element
Mile Saula // Beach

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Beach
2017
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Susan Lisbin // Fulfilled Dreams II

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Fulfilled Dreams II
2018
31,75 x 20,32 x 22,86 cm / 12,5 x 8 x 9 inches
gebrannter Ton, Glasur, Isulierschaum
Oksana Zmiyevska // Leonardo

photo courtesy of Simon Veres

Oksana Zmiyevska // Leonardo
2022
210 x 180 cm / 82,7 x 71 inches
Öl auf Leinwand