• 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.

Aklima Iqbal // line structure-1, line structure-2, line structure-3

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // line structure-1, line structure-2, line structure-3
2020
mixed media objects
Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Animierte Grafik, Bühnenbild 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart

photo courtesy of Martin Sigmund

Sabine Hilscher // HYPHEMIND, Animierte Grafik, Bühnenbild 1, ECLAT-Festival Stuttgart
2022
Begi Guggenheim, Covid 19

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

Begi Guggenheim, Covid 19
2022
Peter Várnai  & maggie close // slugs'n'tongues

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Peter Várnai & maggie close // slugs'n'tongues
2022
oral poem animation
Gail Winbury / A Dream of a Common Language, from the private collection of Caryn and Joshua Rosenberg

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / A Dream of a Common Language, from the private collection of Caryn and Joshua Rosenberg
2013
61 x 61 cm / 24 x 24 inches
Öl, oil stick on canvas
Martin Krammer // caesar´s salad - „Step by step approach to the dancefloor for emperors“

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Martin Krammer @ Bildrecht Wien 2023

Martin Krammer // caesar´s salad - „Step by step approach to the dancefloor for emperors“
2023
sculpture 36 cm / 14 inches
11 pieces of sculpture and a video, 2023, 3 full sculptures, 2 reliefs, 2 drawings on wood, 4 dancing legs, various dimensions, height of sculptures 36cm, acrylic paint on basswood. Video: mp4 in a loop 1080x1080, 112sec.
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (9)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (9)
2018
82,8 x 140,7 cm / 32,59 x 55,39 inches
Ölpastell auf Papier
David Hicks // Various discarded objects rearranged to sculptural

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Various discarded objects rearranged to sculptural
Klaudia Stoeckl //  Neue Arbeiten dunkel (1)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // new works dark (1)
2014
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand