• 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 6

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line and shape 6
2020
30 x 25 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl // reflections 2

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // reflections 2
2021
40 x 30 cm / 15,75 x 11,8 inches
Öl auf Papier/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
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
Bernice Sokol Kramer // From Ghost to Goddess, Pleaides Gallery

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // From Ghost to Goddess, Pleaides Gallery
2005
Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (7)

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (7)
2021
Mile Saula // Welcome in silence

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Welcome in silence
2018
100 x 100 cm // 39 x 39 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (5)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (5)
2020
121,92 x 121,92 cm / 48 x 48 cm
Öl, Acryl, Ölpastell auf Holz
Hadrien de Corneillan // Nord/Sud

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Nord/Sud
2017
100 x 100 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand