• 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.

Margareta Klose // selfie competence, memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Margareta Klose // selfie competence, memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
150 x 100 cm / 59 x 39 inches
screen print on mirror
Mile Saula // Night of dragons

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Night of dragons
2018
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // discussion 34

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // discussion 34
2021
105 x 196 cm / 41,34 x 77,16 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell auf Leinen
Cris Anutoiu / transgressionality, Billi Thanner / I want, I want

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

Cris Anutoiu / transgressionality // Billi Thanner / I want, I want
2022
Aklima Iqbal // line structure-1

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Aklima Iqbal // line structure-1
2020
95 x 55 x 19 cm
mixed media object
David Hicks // Plaster on brick and found found deflated football

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Plaster on brick and found found deflated football

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // DER FALL BABEL, SWR-Festspiele Schwetzingen
2019
Sabine Hilscher //  Gehirn

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // brain
2023
25 x 35 cm // 9,8 x 13,7 inches
Papierschnitt, Landkarte
Hadrien de Corneillan // Smoke on the water

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Hadrien de Corneillan // Smoke on the water
2019
81 x 100 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand