• 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.

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
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
Alan Neider // Blue Dress

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Blue Dress
2013
140 x 89 x 10 cm / 55 x 35 x 4 inches
clothing, fabrics, collage, paint, painting.
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (8)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (8)
2021
114 x 100 cm / 44,88 x 39,37 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell, Sprayfarbe auf Papier
David Hicks // Tapes and failed drawing attached to spray painted air-filled packing bag attached to reclaimed painted wooden panel

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Tapes and failed drawing attached to spray painted air-filled packing bag attached to reclaimed painted wooden panel
Gail Winbury / Second Time Around

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Second Time Around
2016
122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
Öl und Pastell auf Leinwand
Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2, detail

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2, detail
2020
95 x 55 x 19 cm
mixed media sculpture
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 9

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 9
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Susan Lisbin // GPS

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // GPS
2009
43,18 x 35,56 x 27,94 cm / 17 x 14 x 11 inches
niedrig gebrannter Ton, Sesselteil, Unterglasur