• 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.

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Lady B (at Bristol Art Museum)

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Lady B (at Bristol Art Museum)
2021
38,73 x 30,5 cm / 15,25 x 12 inches
ausgeschnittenes und geklebtes Papier
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 15

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 15
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Sagar Sarkar // ohne Titel (18)

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // no title (18)
2020
mixed media objects
Klaudia Stoeckl // Neue Arbeiten, Alles fliesst

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // new works, in flow
2010
100 x 100 cm / 39,37 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
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Margareta Klose © Bildrecht Wien 2020

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David Hicks // Bottle and Banana inset to window

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Bottle and Banana inset to window

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and artists @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Vanessa und Daniel Mazanik / SMARTPHONE_0
2022
Anna Pelz // Touched Screens Tuned Faces

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Touched Screens Tuned Faces
2019
size variable
Knetmasse, Karton, Handyladekabel
Gail Winbury / Les Corizon Late

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / Les Corizon Late
2017
71 x 58 cm / 28 x 23 inches
Mixed Media Collage