• 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.

Susan Lisbin // Untitled 1

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Untitled 1
2021
81,28 x 116,84 cm / 32 x 46 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Martin Krammer // caesar´s salad - „Step by step approach to the dancefloor for emperors“  (copy) (copy) (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.
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 1

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 1
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl //  Neue Arbeiten (4)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // new works (4)
2015
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // situation Blue

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // situation Blue
2020
71,12 x 175,26 cm / 28 x 69 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell auf Papier
David Hicks // Found lighting in wooded area near the artists fomer studio, Anomonly Projects/Office Politics series

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Found lighting in wooded area near the artists fomer studio, Anomonly Projects/Office Politics series
Hadrien de Corneillan // Glorious fifties

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Glorious fifties
2018
81 x 116 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Susan Lisbin // Heading Out

photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

Susan Lisbin // Heading Out
2019
106,68 x 91,44 cm / 42 x 36 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Alan Neider // Dress Paintings, LIGHT GREEN dress

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Dress Paintings, LIGHT GREEN dress
2013
55 x 35 x 4”/140 x 89 x 10 cm
clothing, fabrics, collage, paint