• 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.

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
phantasmatic paradoxes @ PARALLEL Vienna art fair, 05.09.2023-10.09.2023 (Raumansicht) 1photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtnerphantasmatic paradoxes @ PARALLEL Vienna art fair, 05.09.2023-10.09.2023 Raumansicht 2

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

phantasmatic paradoxes @ PARALLEL Vienna art fair, 05.09.2023-10.09.2023 room view 2
Begi Guggenheim // cast after polishing, Gussprojekt O.T.

Photo courtesy of undisclosed author

Begi Guggenheim // no title, cast after polishing
2018
135 x 120 x 70 cm
Aluminium

photo courtesy of Margareta Klose @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Nina André, Pascale Maxime Ballieul, Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber, Renate Hausenblas, Aline Lenzhofer, Vivienne Causemann, Paulina Krasser, Marlene Lahmer, Selina Rottmann, Julian Siffert, Ego// selfie competence, online performance video 2020
2020
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Animierte Grafik, Bühnenbild, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Martin Sigmund

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Animierte Grafik, Bühnenbild, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
Gail Winbury / Said and Done

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Said and Done
2017
97 x 97 cm / 38 x 38 inches
Öl, Seide, Graphit auf Leinen
Aklima Iqbal // line structure-3

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line structure-3
2020
72 x 40 x 17 cm
mixed media object
Susan Lisbin // The Stillness of Contemplation

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // The Stillness of Contemplation
2021
81,28 x 116,84 cm / 32 x 46 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Mile Saula // Confusion

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Confusion
2014
70 x 100 cm // 27.5 x 39 inches
mixed media auf Papier