• 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.

Klaudia Stoeckl // Gespannt

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Gespannt
2000
60 x 60 cm / 23,6 x 23,6 inches
Acryl auf Leinwand
Sabine Hilscher // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Sabine Hilscher // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
pantyhose, latex, hair, 2001, remake 2022, installation.
Bernice Sokol Kramer // I Always Loved my Mothers Pineapple Upside-down Cake

photo courtesy of D. James Dee

Bernice Sokol Kramer // I Always Loved my Mothers Pineapple Upside-down Cake
2003
147 x 58 x 53 cm / 58 x 23 x 21 inches
Pappmaché, Acryl
Hadrien de Corneillan // Murmuration 1 (3)

Photo courtesy of Hadrien de Corneillan

Hadrien de Corneillan // Murmuration 1 (3)
2018
88 x 115 cm
Acryl auf Leinwand
Begi Guggenheim // 10.000

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Begi Guggenheim // 10.000
2021
200 x 60 x 60 cm / 78,74 x 23,6 x 23,6 inches
Intervention, Installation, mixed media, Glas, Plastik, Styropor, Metall, Holz
Gail Winbury / Arabesque / from the collection of Suzanne Willian of New Jersey and Wyoming

Photo courtesy of Hannah Frankel

Gail Winbury / Arabesque / from the collection of Suzanne Willian of New Jersey and Wyoming
2020
56 x 76 cm / 22 x 30 inches
Öl und Graphit auf Arches Papier
Klaudia Stoeckl // Landschaft Ocker

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // landscape ochre
2019
50 x 50 cm / 19,68 x 19,68 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // about a story

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // about a story
2021
212 x 140 cm / / 83,46 x 55,12 inches
Acryl, Ölpastell auf Leinen
David Hicks // Transgression no.4, Anomonly Projects

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Transgression no.4, Anomonly Projects
Found tables, punch bag, fire extinguisher, oil painting on canvas, industrial googles on concrerte shard