• 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.

Mile Saula // Expectations (2)

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Expectations (2)
2017
100 x 150 cm // 39 x 59 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Alan Neider // Dress Paintings, BLUE dress

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Dress Paintings, BLUE dress
2013
55 x 35 x 4”/140 x 89 x 10 cm
clothing, fabrics, collage, paint
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Firebrand No. 2

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Firebrand No. 2
2014
15,8 cm / 6,25 inches
Gips, Collage
Begi Guggenheim // sculpture painting, Fassung, Gussprojekt O.T.

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Begi Guggenheim // no title, sculpture painting
2018
135 x 120 x 70 cm
Aluminium
Sabine Hilscher // EXPEDITION FREISCHÜTZ, Vogelkoepfe, Staatsschauspiel Dresden

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // EXPEDITION FREISCHÜTZ, Vogelkoepfe, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
2014
Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // vertical line-2
2020
162 x 7 x 5,5 cm
mixed media object
Gail Winbury / Slip Sliding Away of the collection of the Canary Wharf Group London, UK.

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / Slip Sliding Away of the collection of the Canary Wharf Group London, UK.
2016
122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Martin Krammer // caesar´s salad - „Step by step approach to the dancefloor for emperors“  (copy)

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 (10)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (10)
2019
99,06 x 165,1 cm / 39 x 65 inches
Ölpastell auf Papier