• 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.

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
Studio Matchka (Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai) // hovering 2

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
Mathias Hanin / Exposing myself from the other side

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

Mathias Hanin / Exposing myself from the other side
2022
Klaudia Stoeckl // reflections, Am Wasser

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // reflections, Am Wasser
2019
30 x 40 cm / 11,8 x 15,75 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // pink

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // pink
2021
208 x 206 cm / 81,89 x 81,10 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell auf Holz
David Hicks // untitled

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // untitled
Acrylic and industrial ink on found joinery panel
Susan Lisbin // Swagger

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Swagger
2018
48,26 x 25,4 x 20,32 cm / 18 x 10 x 8 inches
gebrannter Ton und Glasur
Anna Pelz // Candy Workout

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Candy Workout
2020
150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 inches
Acryl, Gouache, Ölstift auf Leinwand
Mile Saula // Separately

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Separately
2014
70 x 100 cm // 27,5 x 39 inches
mixed media auf Papier