• 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.

    Klaudia Stoeckl // Schriftbild (2)

    photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Klaudia Stoeckl // Schriftbild (2)
    2019
    50 x 50 cm / 19,68 x 19,68 inches
    Pigmente auf Papier/Leinwand
    Sagar Sarkar // studio visit at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna June 2021

    photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Sagar Sarkar // studio visit at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna June 2021
    2021
    #geld

    Margareta Klose © Bildrecht, Wien 2020

    #geld
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Spring

    photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Spring
    2020
    45,72 x 37 cm / 18 x 14,5 inches
    Collage, ausgeschnittenes und geklebtes Papier, Tinte
    Susan Lisbin // Touch Me Not

    photo courtesy of Sirpa Cowell

    Susan Lisbin // Touch Me Not
    2020
    121,92 x 121,92 cm / 48 x 48 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand und Papier
    Alan Neider // Blanket Painting 1

    Courtesy of the Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta

    Alan Neider // Blanket Painting 1
    2015
    80 x 48 x 2”/203 x 122 x 5 cm
    fabric, clothing, paint on moving blanket
    Gail Winbury / Topsy Turvey

    Photo courtesy of Peter Jacobs

    Gail Winbury / Topsy Turvey
    2017
    61 x 48 cm / 24 x 19 inches
    Mixed Media Collage, Öl auf Leinwand und Papier, Sumi Tinte auf Papier auf Bristol Karton

    Margareta Klose © Bildrecht Wien 2020

    Veronika Atzwanger, Pascale Maxime Ballieul, Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber, Renate Hausenblas, Aline Lenzhofer
    Sabine Hilscher // GEWEBE

    photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

    Sabine Hilscher // GEWEBE
    2022
    15,7 x 18,5 inches / 40 x 47 cm
    Zeichnung, dreidimensionaler Papierschnitt, Tusche