• 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.

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
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
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
Anna Pelz // So Much Going On

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // So Much Going On
2019
100 x 80 cm / 39,37 x 31,5 inches
Acryl, Ölkreide auf Leinwand
Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 4

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 4
2020
30 x 25 cm
mixed media
Alan Neider / Small Purse 9

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

Alan Neider / Small Purse 9
2022
Klaudia Stoeckl // Ohne Titel Serie Winterbilder

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // no title Winter Series
2021
40 x 40 cm / 15,75 x 15,75 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gelber Hohlfussroehrling, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Gelber Hohlfussroehrling boletinus cavipes f. aureus, mushroom costume, detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022