• 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.

Oksana Zmiyevska // True Love

photo courtesy of Simon Veres

Oksana Zmiyevska // True Love
2022
202 x 386 cm / 79,5 x 152 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
David Hicks // Pigment stick, acrylic artists footprints on newsprint drop cloth

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Pigment stick, acrylic artists footprints on newsprint drop cloth
Begi Guggenheim // Skulpturmodell 1

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Begi Guggenheim // model for a sculpture 1
2017
70 x 50 cm
Papier, Acryl, Kugelschreiber, Kupfer
Studio Matchka (Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai) // hovering

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Margareta Klose @ Bildrecht Wien 2023

Studio Matchka (Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai) // hovering
2023
Mobile with 4 hand-painted 3D-Prints
Begi Guggenheim //  O.T. (Attersee)

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Begi Guggenheim // no title (Attersee)
2021
100 x 70 cm / 39,37 x 27,56 inches
Zeichnung, Kugelschreiber, Bleistift, Kunstharz, Farbe
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (4)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (4)
2020
160,02 x 127 cm / 63 x 50 inches
Öl, Acryl, Ölpastell auf Leinen
Bernice Sokol Kramer // opening memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Bernice Sokol Kramer // opening memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 4

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 4
2020
30 x 25 cm
mixed media
David Hicks //This what happens when you're really pushed at

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // This what happens when you're really pushed at
Mixed media on canvas and board