• 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 // Self Portrait Oksana

photo courtesy of Simon Veres

Oksana Zmiyevska // Self Portrait Oksana
2022
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Aklima Iqbal // horizontal structure-2

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // horizontal structure-2
2020
33 x 50 x 0,5 cm
mixed media sculpture
Mathias Hanin / Exposing myself from the other side, Amiko Kamikaze / Devils Fart

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

Mathias Hanin / Exposing myself from the other side, Amiko Kamikaze / Devils Fart
2022
Bernice Sokol Kramer // The World is Not Flat (2), Carter Burden Gallery

photo courtesy of Sarah Leon

Bernice Sokol Kramer // The World is Not Flat (2), Carter Burden Gallery
2018
Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (8)

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (8)
2021
Klaudia Stoeckl // Palettenbild, Stille

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // palette painting, silence
2016
140 x 100 cm / 55,11 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
Gail Winbury / Radiant

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Radiant
2017
122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
Öl und Seide
Lia Quirina, Thomas Gegner, Alan Neider, Sabine Hilscher //

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Lia Quirina, Thomas Gegner, Alan Neider, Sabine Hilscher //
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (6)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (6)
2021
150 x 113 cm / 59,05 x 44,49 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell, Sprayfarbe auf Papier