• 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.

Alan Neider // Line Paintings, Orange Line

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Line Paintings, Orange Line
2019
80 x 65”/203 x 165 cm
fabric, clothing, paint on moving blanket
Susan Lisbin // Untitled 6

photo courtesy of Susan Lisbin

Susan Lisbin // Untitled 6
2015
20,31 x 25,4 cm / 8 x 10 inches
Acryl und Collage, Gesso auf Tafel
Lia Quirina // ALIENWURM

Photo courtesy of Julie Dadsétan

Lia Quirina // ALIENWURM
2022
250 x 45 x 55 cm (Beine 100 cm) / 98 x 17 x 21 inches (Beine 21 inches)
textile, fabric, foam, metal wire, paper mache, plastic balls
Klaudia Stoeckl // Terra Incognita (2)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // terra incognita (2)
2008
100 x 100 cm / 39,37 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente und Mischtechnik auf Papier/Leinwand
Sagar Sarkar // figure 1 b 3 d

photo courtesy of Sagar Sarkar

Sagar Sarkar // figure 1 b 3 d
2020
20,32 x 71,12 x 20,32 cm / 8 x 28 x 8 inches
Kunststoff, Heftklammern, Kunststoff
Anna Pelz // Installation 7

Anna Pelz @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Anna Pelz // Installation 7
2021
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Skin Game

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Skin Game
2020
44,5 x 35,5 cm / 17,5 x 14 inches
Collage, ausgeschnittenes und geklebtes Papier, Wasserfarben, Bleistift
Lia Quirina // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Lia Quirina // preview memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
Gail Winbury / We Knew How Lucky We Were

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / We Knew How Lucky We Were
2017
36 x 28 cm / 14 x 11 inches
Sumi Tinte, Öl, Graphite, Holzkohle, Archiv Papier, Israeli Papier