• 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.

    Mile Saula // Choses sans importance

    photo courtesy of Mile Saula

    Mile Saula // Choses sans importance
    2013
    70 x 100 cm // 27.5 x 39 inches
    mixed media auf Papier
    Thomas Gegner // Daimonographie

    photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

    Thomas Gegner // Daimonographie
    2023
    40 x 60 cm // 15,7 x 23,6 inches
    painting, collage on panel
    Gail Winbury / From a Melody to a Roar, from the private collection of Mayor Shelly Brindle, Westfield, NJ

    Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

    Gail Winbury / From a Melody to a Roar, from the private collection of Mayor Shelly Brindle, Westfield, NJ
    2017
    97 x 97 cm / 38 x 38 inches
    Öl, Graphit, Holzkohle auf Leinen
    Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-1, detail

    Photo courtesy of Aklima Iqbal

    Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-1, detail
    2020
    90 x 40 x 19 cm
    mixed media sculpture
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Grandma's Room, 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC, view 2

    photo courtesy of D. James Dee

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Grandma's Room, 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC, view 2
    1995
    Margareta Klose // selfie competence, set up memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

    photo courtesy of Margareta Klose @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

    Margareta Klose // selfie competence, set up memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
    150 x 100 cm / 59 x 39 inches
    screen print on mirror
    Michael Endlicher - courtesy of Gallery Gundula Gruber // TOTALITER ALITER  (@Gegner.Haus)

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner. Michael Endlicher @ Bildrecht Wien 2021

    Michael Endlicher - courtesy of Gallery Gundula Gruber // TOTALITER ALITER (@Gegner.Haus)
    2021
    Schablone, Spray
    Amiko Kamikaze, All Saints

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

    Amiko Kamikaze, All Saints
    2022
    Klaudia Stoeckl // Palettenbild

    photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Klaudia Stoeckl // Palettenbild
    2013
    140 x 100 cm / 55,11 x 39,37 inches
    Pigmente/Collagen auf Papier/Leinwand