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
photo Art Collection Schlichtner
TIME RACE From the dawn of the late 1960s to the present. Positions on architecture, form, and time.
photo courtesy of David Hicks
David Hicks // First in my new series called 'Extensions' Forcing constraints of time and materials. Use and reuse.
Canvas and industrial off cuts on canvas
photo courtesy of D. James Dee
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Office Visit
2013
37,5 x 28,9 x 2,5 cm / 14,75 x 11,37 x 1 inches
collage relief, cut and pasted paper, on board, on clay, ink, acrylic
Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022
Anna Pelz // Innocent Punschkrapferl
2020
24 x 24 cm / 9,5 x 9,5 inches
Acryl, Ölstift, Glitter auf Leinwand
Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim
Begi Guggenheim // exhaust
2006
72 x 45 x 15 cm
mixed media, Auspuff
photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Margareta Klose @ Bildrecht Wien 2023
Studio Matchka (Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai) // hovering 2
2023
Mobile with 4 hand-painted 3D-Prints
photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell
Susan Lisbin // Do Si Do
2019
30,48 x 20,32 x 20,32 cm / 12 x 8 x 8 inches
niedrig gebrannter Ton,Terra Sigillata und Acryl
photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and artists @ Bildrecht Wien 2022
David Hicks / Minions
2022
Reclaimed and artist sewn opera costumier's faux fur in reclaimed industrial paint cans.