• 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 / Mapping Arad

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Mapping Arad
2016
97x 97 cm / 38 x 38 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
Susan Lisbin // Untitled 5

photo courtesy of Susan Lisbin

Susan Lisbin // Untitled 5
2017
121,92 x 106,68 cm / 48 x 42 inches
Öl auf Leinwand
PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // meanwhile ... Lia Quirina´s Alienwurm performance

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2023

PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // meanwhile ... Lia Quirina´s Alienwurm performance
PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // meanwhile ... Lia Quirina´s Alienwurm performance 1

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2023

PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // meanwhile ... Lia Quirina´s Alienwurm performance 1
Mile Saula // Thunder birds

photo courtesy of Mile Saula

Mile Saula // Thunder birds
2019
100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
Öl auf Leinwand

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2023

PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // meanwhile ... Lia Quirina´s Alienwurm performance 2
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 13

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 13
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl // Rot auf Weiß

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // red on white
2015
120 x 100 cm / 47,24 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier
PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // nice people

photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek © Bildrecht Wien 2023

PARALLEL Vienna 2023 // nice people