• 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.

    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV, untitled, 2023, wood, acrylic, oil pastels (3)

    Photo courtesy of Annette Tesarek and artists © Bildrecht Wien 2023

    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV, untitled, 2023, wood, acrylic, oil pastels (3)
    Gail Winbury / Punching Bag

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / Punching Bag
    2017
    122 x 122 cm / 48 x 48 inches
    Öl auf Leinen
    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / Exhibtion view with artworks by Alexandar Peev, Martin Krammer and Vivian Crespo Zurita

    photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and artists @ Bildrecht Wien 2023

    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / Exhibtion view with artworks by Alexandar Peev, Martin Krammer and Vivian Crespo Zurita
    Mile Saula // Tinted sky

    photo courtesy of Mile Saula

    Mile Saula // Tinted sky
    2016
    100 x 120 cm // 39 x 47 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV, untitled, 2023, wood, acrylic, oil pastels. Moritz Polansky exploring

    photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and artists @ Bildrecht Wien 2023

    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV, untitled, 2023, wood, acrylic, oil pastels. Moritz Polansky exploring
    Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 14

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 14
    2017-2018
    22,5 x 29 cm
    mixed media
    Klaudia Stoeckl // Terra Incognita (1)

    photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Klaudia Stoeckl // terra incognita (1)
    2007
    105 x 100 cm / 41,34 x 39,37 inches
    Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV and MARA  NIANG

    Photo courtesy of Mara Niang

    Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023 / ALEXANDAR PEEV and MARA NIANG
    Sabine Hilscher // MAGAZIN DES GLÜECKS nach einer Revue von Ödön von Horváth, Schürze, Staatsschauspiel Dresden

    photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

    Sabine Hilscher // MAGAZIN DES GLÜECKS nach einer Revue von Ödön von Horváth, Schürze, Staatsschauspiel Dresden
    2009