• 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 / 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.
    Begi Guggenheim // exhaust

    Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim

    Begi Guggenheim // exhaust
    2006
    72 x 45 x 15 cm
    mixed media, Auspuff
    Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2
    2020
    40 x 60 x 0,5 cm
    mixed media object
    Gail Winbury / This is Our Space

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / This is Our Space
    2015
    122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

    photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Totentrompete, Pilzgrosskostuem, Detail 2, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
    2022
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // The World is Not Flat (1), Carter Burden Gallery

    photo courtesy of Sarah Leon

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // The World is Not Flat (1), Carter Burden Gallery
    2018
    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
    Begi Guggenheim //  Mastigias (Attersee)

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Begi Guggenheim // Mastigias (Attersee)
    2019
    55 x 70 x 45 cm / 21,65 x 27,56 x 17,71 inches
    Plastik, Objekt, mixed media, Gips, Kupfer, Karton
    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