• 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.

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
Begi Guggenheim // Transformers

Photo courtesy of Ismini Adami

Begi Guggenheim // transformers
2019
100 x 70 cm
Papier, Acryl, Kugelschreiber
Susan Lisbin // Untitled 10

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Untitled 10
2018
22,86 x 38,10 x 20,32 cm / 9 x 15 x 8 inches
Ton, Unterglasur und Acryl
Mile Saula // Expectation (1)

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Expectation (1)
2019
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Begi Guggenheim // Skulpturmodell 2

Photo courtesy of Ismini Adami

Begi Guggenheim // model for a scultpure 2
2019
50 x 70 cm
Papier, Acryl, Kugelschreiber
Anna Pelz // Grelles Gluehen

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Glaring Glow
2020
50 x 50 cm / 19,7 x 19,7 inches
Acryl, Ölstift auf Leinwand
Gail Winbury / Inside Out

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Inside Out
2014
122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem,  ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Clownburst at Roger Smith Lab Gallery

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Clownburst at Roger Smith Lab Gallery
2005