• 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.

Margareta Klose, Raumeingriff mit 3 LED-Laufbändern, Schlagwortpräsentation auf 3 Laptops mit Projektion, Säulen in Alufolie

Margareta Klose © Bildrecht, Wien 2020

Margareta Klose, LED, key words, 3 laptops, 3 projections, columns in tinfoil
Sabine Hilscher // ESSEN

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // ESSEN
2021
50 x 30 cm / 19,7 x 11,8 inches
Collage, Zeichnung, Tusche, Leim
Alan Neider // Chairs & Blankets 1

Courtesy of the Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta

Alan Neider // Chairs & Blankets 1
2016
96 x 72 x 60”/244 x 183 x 152 cm
moving blankets, fabric, paint, chairs
Gail Winbury / Neither Water nor Air from private Manhattan collection

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Neither Water nor Air from private Manhattan collection
2018
97 x 97 cm / 38 x 38 inches
Öl, Wachs, Zeichenkohle, Stoff auf Leinwand
David Hicks // Artist as a provocation in an office space, Anomoly Projects, Office Politics series 2

photo courtesy of David Hicks

David Hicks // Artist as a provocation in an office space, Anomoly Projects, Office Politics series 2
Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 2

Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 2
2020
19 x 13,5 cm
mixed media
Sabine Hilscher // HERZ gebettet

photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

Sabine Hilscher // HERZ gebettet
2022
50 x 30 cm / 19,7 x 11,8 inches
Collage, Tusche, Pigment, Leim
Lia Quirina // bye bye ALIENWURM PARALLEL Vienna 2022

Photo courtesy of Art Collection Schlichtner

Lia Quirina // bye bye ALIENWURM PARALLEL Vienna 2022
Gail Winbury / Three Weeks Later

Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

Gail Winbury / Three Weeks Later
2017
124 x 97 cm / 49 x 38 inches
Öl und Collage auf Leinen