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
photo Art Collection Schlichtner
TIME RACE From the dawn of the late 1960s to the present. Positions on architecture, form, and time.
Courtesy of the Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
Alan Neider // Hummingbird 3
2016
63 x 45,5 x 4”/160 x 115,5 x 10,1 cm
fabrics, wood, paint, moving blankets
Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022
Anna Pelz // Happy Fomo
2020
24 x 24 cm / 9,5 x 9,5 inches
Acryl, Ölkreide auf Leinwand
Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 4
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Marlene Heidinger @ Bildrecht Wien 2022
Marlene Heidinger / Alpha 01-02
2022
photo by Art Collection Schlichtner
Klaudia Stoeckl // no title (4)
2017
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Guns and Purses
2014
30 x 20 x 2,5 cm / 11,87 x 7,87 x 1 inches
Papier, auf Karton, auf Ton, Acryl
Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan
Hadrien de Corneillan // Looking for Arthur
2018
90 x 116 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
photo courtesy of David Hicks
David Hicks // Drawing 2
charcoal on paper
photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar
Sagar Sarkar // no title (12)
2020
121,92 x 101,6 cm / 48 x 40 inches
Erfrischungsgetränkedosen, Ölpastell, Heftklammern auf Holzplatte