• 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 / Cave Dwellers

Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

Gail Winbury / Cave Dwellers
2016
48 x 61 cm / 16 x 11 inches
Mixed Media Collage
Sabine Hilscher // Schwangerschaftsstreifen

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // Schwangerschaftsstreifen
2001
160 x 40 x 50 cm / 63 x 15,7 x 19,7 inches
Gips, Stoff, Kordel
Alan Neider // Circle Paintings, Circle 5

photo courtesy of Alan Neider

Alan Neider // Circle Paintings, Circle 5
2020
80” Dia/203 cm DM
fabric, clothing, paint on moving blanket

Margareta Klose © Bildrecht Wien 2020

Nina André
David Hicks // Packaging tube and tape, Anomonly Projects/Office Politics series

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Packaging tube and tape, Anomonly Projects/Office Politics series
Anna Pelz // Studio Anna Pelz

photo Art Collection Schlichtner

Anna Pelz // Studio Anna Pelz
2022

Photo courtesy of Lia Quirina

Lia Quirina // ALIENWURM, VIDEO
2022
8BitR
Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 18

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // visual diary 18
2017-2018
22,5 x 29 cm
mixed media
Klaudia Stoeckl // Schriftbild (1)

photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Klaudia Stoeckl // Schriftbild (1)
2019
80 x 100 cm / 31,5 x 39,37 inches
Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand