• 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 // collaboration of seconds

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // collaboration of seconds
2018
82,8 x 140,7 cm / 32,59 x 55,39 inches
Zeichenkohle auf Papier
Oksana Zmiyevska // Portrait eines Mannes

photo courtesy of Simon Veres

Oksana Zmiyevska // Portrait of a Man
2022
150 x 70 cm / 59 x 27,5 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
David Hicks // Discarded golf bag with found ornamental plants plus discarded plastic container

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Discarded golf bag with found ornamental plants plus discarded plastic container
Billi Thanner / I want, I want

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Billi Thanner @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Billi Thanner / I want, I want
2022
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Office Visit

photo courtesy of D. James Dee

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Office Visit
2013
37,5 x 28,9 x 2,5 cm / 14,75 x 11,37 x 1 inches
Collage Relief, Papier, auf Karton, auf Ton, Tinte, Acryl
Mile Saula // Memories of an odd day

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Memories of an odd day
2017
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Hadrien de Corneillan // Thank you Mr McLean

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Thank you Mr McLean
2019
Acryl auf Leinwand
Sabine Hilscher //  Herz

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // heart
2023
25 x 35 cm // 9,8 x 13,7 inches
Papierschnitt, Landkarte
Klaudia Stoeckl // Blaues Feld, Meine Natur

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Blaues Feld, my nature
2013
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand