• 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.

    Monika Jandl: Intervention mit Absperrbandl und Keilrahmen

    Margareta Klose © Bildrecht, Wien 2020

    Monika Jandl: intervention with barrier tape and wedge stretcher
    Gail Winbury / Neither Water nor Air, the private collection of Michael Parlapiano, South Orange, New Jersey

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / Neither Water nor Air, the private collection of Michael Parlapiano, South Orange, New Jersey
    2018
    97 x 87 cm / 38 x 38 inches
    Öl, Wachs auf Leinen
    Alan Neider // 'Double Accordion Pleated Painting'

    photo courtesy of Alan Neider

    Alan Neider // 'Double Accordion Pleated Painting'
    1970
    fabric, paint
    Sabine Hilscher // PILZPLISSE

    photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

    Sabine Hilscher // PILZPLISSE
    2022
    35 x 55 cm / 13,8 x 21,6 inches
    Collage, Zeichnung, Erdpigmente
    David Hicks // Artist as a provocation in an office space, Anomoly Projects, Office Politics series

    photo courtesy of David Hicks

    David Hicks // Artist as a provocation in an office space, Anomoly Projects, Office Politics series
    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 1

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 1
    2020
    19 x 13,5 cm
    mixed media
    #selfiemovie

    Margareta Klose © Bildrecht Wien 2020

    #selfiemovie
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // In the Middle Of the Night, Steinway Suite No. 3

    photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // In the Middle Of the Night, Steinway Suite No. 3
    2020
    DM 213,36 cm / DM 7 ft.
    Pappmaché auf Kleidung, Schuhe, Acryl, Klebeband, Papier
    Lia Quirina // dismantling PARALLEL Vienna 2022

    Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

    Lia Quirina // dismantling PARALLEL Vienna 2022