• 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.

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
David Hicks // Acrylic, spray paint and industrial pen on paper with mono print work attached

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Acrylic, spray paint and industrial pen on paper with mono print work attached
Gail Winbury / Conversation(s), from a private collection in Luneburg, Germany

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Conversation(s), from a private collection in Luneburg, Germany
2016
102 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Begi Guggenheim // An die Freude

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Begi Guggenheim // An die Freude
2016
220 x 137 x 127 cm
Aluminium chromiert
Klaudia Stoeckl // Terra Gelb auf Weiß

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // terra yellow on white
2013
110 x 100 cm / 43,31 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier
Klaudia Stoeckl // Neue Arbeiten (1)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // new works (1)
2013
140 x 100 cm / 55,11 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
Aklima Iqbal // vertical Line-1

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // vertical Line-1
2020
37 x 30 x 3,5 cm
mixed media object
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
Susan Lisbin // The Stance

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // The Stance
2019
39,37 x 17,78 x 17,78 cm / 15,5 x 7 x 7 inches
niedrig gebrannter Ton, Glasur, Terra Sigillata, Kaltwachs, Ölfarbe