• 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.

    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, rosafarbener Egerlingsschirmling, Pilzgrosskostuem, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

    photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

    Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, rosafarbener Egerlingsschirmling, Pilzgrosskostuem, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
    2022
    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
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Grandma's Room, 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC

    photo courtesy of D. James Dee

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Grandma's Room, 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC
    1995
    Stoff mit Schnitten und Rissen
    Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (9)

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (9)
    2021
    Hadrien de Corneillan // God 2.0

    Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

    Hadrien de Corneillan // God 2.0
    2017
    100 x 73 cm
    Acryl auf Leinwand
    Anna Pelz // Wound Or Wonder

    Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

    Anna Pelz // Wound Or Wonder
    2021
    100 x 70 cm / 39,37 x 27,5 inches
    Acryl, Ölkreide, Pastellkreide, Tinte, Pastellkreide auf Leinwand
    Lia Quirina // a creature in space

    photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

    Lia Quirina // a creature in space
    2023
    100 x 100 cm // 39,4 x 39,4 inches
    mixed media
    Alan Neider // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

    photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek

    Alan Neider // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
    Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (7)

    photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

    Sagar Sarkar // no title (7)
    2021
    189 x 141,5 cm / 74,41 x 55,71 inches
    Acryl, Ölpastell auf Verpackungskarton