• 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.

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
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
Begi Guggenheim // Die Quälle - Mastigias - ein Nachhaltigkeitsprojekt für Wien 1

Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim

Begi Guggenheim // Mastigias - die Quälle - a sustainability project for the city of Vienna 1
2019
55 x 70 x 45 cm
mixed media, Gips, Kupfer, Karton
Begi Guggenheim // Die Quälle - Mastigias - ein Nachhaltigkeitsprojekt für Wien 2

Photo courtesy of Begi Guggenheim

Begi Guggenheim // Mastigias - die Quälle - a sustainability project for the city of Vienna 2
2019
55 x 70 x 45 cm
mixed media, Gips, Kupfer, Karton
Klaudia Stoeckl //  Ohne Titel (3)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // no title (3)
2015
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
phantasmatic paradoxes @ PARALLEL Vienna art fair, 05.09.2023-10.09.2023 room view 3

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

phantasmatic paradoxes @ PARALLEL Vienna art fair, 05.09.2023-10.09.2023 room view 3
Hadrien de Corneillan // Les solitaires

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Les solitaires
2018
Acryl auf Leinwand
Alan Neider // Two Dancers 2

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Two Dancers 2
2016
63 x 45,5”/160 x 115,5 cm
fabric, wood, paint on moving blankets
Anna Pelz // Happy Fomo

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Happy Fomo
2020
24 x 24 cm / 9,5 x 9,5 inches
Acryl, Ölkreide auf Leinwand