• 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.

    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.
    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
    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
    Begi Guggenheim // finished sculpture, Gussprojekt O.T.

    Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim

    Begi Guggenheim // no title, finished sculpture
    2018
    135 x 120 x 70 cm
    Aluminium
    Gail Winbury / Rites of Spring, private collection of Diane and Ari Nigam

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / Rites of Spring, private collection of Diane and Ari Nigam
    2016
    122 x 92 cm / 48 x 38 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Anna Pelz // Ausgewandert

    Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

    Anna Pelz // Ausgewandert
    2020
    150 x 100 cm / 59,05 x 39,37 inches
    Acryl auf Leinwand
    Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 1

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 1
    2017-2018
    22,5 x 29 cm
    mixed media
    Mile Saula // Hunters

    photo courtesy of Mile Saula

    Mile Saula // Hunters
    2018
    80 x 120 cm // 31,5 x 47 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Street Song

    photo courtesy of D. James Dee

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Street Song
    1990ies
    52 x 35 x 4,45 cm / 20,5 x 14 x 1,75 inches
    Collage Relief, Papier, Ton, Tinte, Acryl