• 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.

    Susan Lisbin // The Twist

    photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

    Susan Lisbin // The Twist
    2014
    30,48 x 20,32 x 17,78 cm / 12 x 8 x 7 inches
    Ton, Acryl
    Klaudia Stoeckl // Ohne Titel (2)

    photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Klaudia Stoeckl // no title (2)
    2006
    60 x 60 cm / 23,6 x 23,6 inches
    Acryl, Öl auf Leinwand
    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gelber Hohlfussroehrling, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

    photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gelber Hohlfussroehrling boletinus cavipes f. aureus, mushroom costume, detail 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
    2022
    Mile Saula // Uncle M and red bird

    photo courtesy of Mile Saula

    Mile Saula // Uncle M and red bird
    2021
    50 x 50 cm // 19,7 x 19,7 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Gail Winbury / Sediments, Loaves and Fish, from the collection of Beth Scher of Boca Raton, Florida

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / Sediments, Loaves and Fish, from the collection of Beth Scher of Boca Raton, Florida
    2014
    76 x 97 cm / 30 x 38 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Hadrien de Corneillan // 2X63.000

    Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

    Hadrien de Corneillan // 2X63.000
    2017
    92 x 65 cm
    Acryl auf Leinwand
    Oksana Zmiyevska // True Love, studio view

    photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

    Oksana Zmiyevska // True Love, studio view
    2022
    202 x 386 cm / 79,5 x 152 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

    photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
    2019
    190 x 69 x 30 cm / 75 x 27 x 12 inches
    Pappmaché, Acryl, Schuhe
    Susan Lisbin // Untitled 3

    photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

    Susan Lisbin // Untitled 3
    2021
    106,68 x 88,9 cm / 42 x 35 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand