• 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.

Oksana Zmiyevska // untitled, Detail 2

photo courtesy of Simon Veres

Oksana Zmiyevska // untitled, detail 2
2022
190 x 135 cm / 75 x 53 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 8

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 8
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl // Nature 3

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Nature 3
2003
51,5 x 57,5 cm / 20,3 x 22,6 inches
Acryl, Öl auf Holz
Anna Maria Brandstaetter // Schmusen

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner. Anna Maria Brandstaetter @ Bildrecht Wien 2021

Anna Maria Brandstaetter // Schmusen
2021
1300 x 80 cm // 511,81 x 31,49 inches
Acryl auf Siloplane
Hadrien de Corneillan / Murmuration 1 (2)

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan / Murmuration 1 (2)
2018
90 x 60 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Moonlight Lady

photo courtesy of D. James Dee

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Moonlight Lady
2004
139 x 71 x 79 cm / 55 x 28 x 31 inches
Pappmaché, geschnittenes und geklebtes Papier
Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (3)

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Hadrien de Corneillan, Alan Neider, Begi Guggenheim // exhibition view (3)
2021
Annette Tesarek // set up memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Annette Tesarek // set up memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
Begi Guggenheim // Elektromüll Afrika

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Begi Guggenheim // Elektromüll Afrika
2017
132 x 45 x 32 cm
Holz, Kupferdraht, Elektroteile, Acrylfarbe.