• 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.

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Mother and Child, Ghostlore Series

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Mother and Child, Ghostlore Series
2019
33 x 8 x 10 cm / 13 x 3 x 4 inches
Gips, Collage
Anna Pelz // Sweettooth

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Sweettooth
2020
150 x 110 cm / 59 x 43,3 inches
Acryl, Ölstift auf Leinwand
Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition set-up (3)

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition set-up (3)
2021
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Fruchtkoerper, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Afroditi Festa

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Fruchtkoerper, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
58 x 72 cm / 22,8 x 28,3 inches
Fuji Crystal Archive photo print
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
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
Hadrien de Corneillan // Thank you Mr McLean

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

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