• 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.

Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 5

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 5
2020
30 x 25 cm
mixed media
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Office Visit

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
David Hicks / Minions

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.
Anna Pelz // Innocent Punschkrapferl

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
Susan Lisbin // Do Si Do

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
Hadrien de Corneillan // Nord/Sud

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Nord/Sud
2017
100 x 100 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
Begi Guggenheim // exhaust

Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim

Begi Guggenheim // exhaust
2006
72 x 45 x 15 cm
mixed media, Auspuff
Oksana Zmiyevska // Gammazita II

photo courtesy of Christoph Schlessmann

Oksana Zmiyevska // Gammazita II
2021
194 x 384 cm / 76 x 151 inches
Öl auf Leinwand