• 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 // 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
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
Sabine Hilscher //  HYPHEMIND; Gruenspantraeuschling, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gruenspantraeuschling verdigris agaric, mushroom costume, detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
Hadrien de Corneillan // 225.000

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // 225.000
2017
92 x 65 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Mile Saula // Dogs poem

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Dogs poem
2019
100 x 100 cm // 39 x 39 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom Manuskript (Detail mit Geist)

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Hubert Schatz // Psychokosmodrom manuscript (detail with ghost)
1999
Gail Winbury / And Then He Kicked Her Door

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / And Then He Kicked Her Door
2019
152 x 122 cm / 60 x 48 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Gold in the Morning Sun

photo courtesy of D. James Dee

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Gold in the Morning Sun
2019
160 x 68 x 41 cm / 63 x 27 x 16 inches
Pappmaché, Acryl
Susan Lisbin // Upright

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Upright
2019
50,8 x 25,4 x 20,32 cm / 18 x 10 x 8 inches
niedrige gebrannter Ton und Terra Sigillata