• 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 / She Couldn’t Help but Look out the Window, private collection in WIsconsin

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / She Couldn’t Help but Look out the Window, private collection in WIsconsin
2017
36 x 28 cm / 14 x 11 inches
Tinte, Wasserfarben, Öl, Marker, Perlen auf Bristol Karton
Sabine Hilscher // Altersvorsorge

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // Altersvorsorge
2001
70 x 60 x 40 cm / 27,5 x 23,6 x 15,7 inches
Stoff, Füllwatte
Alan Neider // Circle Paintings, Magenta Circle

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Circle Paintings, Magenta Circle
2020
80” Dia/203 cm DM
fabric, clothing, paint on moving blanket
Lia Quirina // final memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Lia Quirina // final memories PARALLEL Vienna 2022
David Hicks // Disused packaging addressed to the artists studio and tapes

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Disused packaging addressed to the artists studio and tapes
Gert Resinger / Google

photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner and Gert Resinger @ Bildrecht Wien 2022

Gert Resinger / Google
2012
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 17

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 17
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl // Terra Incognita (3)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // terra incognita (3)
2013
90 x 90 cm / 35,34 x 35,34 inches
Pigmente auf Leinwand
Bernice Sokol Kramer // Lady with a Monocle

photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

Bernice Sokol Kramer // Lady with a Monocle
2020
44,5 x 35 cm / 17,5 x 13,75 inches
Collage, ausgeschnittenes und geklebtes Papier, Tinte