• 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.

    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 3

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 3
    2020
    19 x 13,5 cm
    mixed media

    Margareta Klose © Bildrecht, Wien 2020

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    Gail Winbury / A White Scintillation Breaks private collection of Kim Wentworth in NJ

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / A White Scintillation Breaks private collection of Kim Wentworth in NJ
    2015
    122 x 97 cm / 48 x 38 inches
    Öl auf Leinwand
    Sabine Hilscher // FERNWAERME

    photo courtesy of Sabine Hilscher

    Sabine Hilscher // FERNWAERME
    2021
    40 x 30 cm / 15,7 x 11,8 inches
    Collage, Tusche, Leim
    Alan Neider // Chairs (2)

    photo courtesy of Alan Neider

    Alan Neider // Chairs (2)
    1973-74
    beams, canvas, oil stain
    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Arcimboldos Grandson

    photo courtesy of Bernice Sokol Kramer

    Bernice Sokol Kramer // Arcimboldos Grandson
    2022
    15,2 x 10,1 cm / 6 x 4 inches
    Collage, ausgeschnittenes und geklebtes Papier, Pastellfarben
    David Hicks // Talent Scout

    photo courtesy of David Hicks

    David Hicks // Talent Scout
    Canvas, manikin, compression strap, industrial goggles, net fabric and painting on canvas to various overturned painted canvases
    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 4

    Photo by Art Collection Schlichtner

    Aklima Iqbal // drawing series 4
    2020
    19 x 13,5 cm
    mixed media
    Gail Winbury / Precipice, from a private collection in Jersey City, New Jersey

    Photo courtesy of Gail Winbury

    Gail Winbury / Precipice, from a private collection in Jersey City, New Jersey
    2013
    97 x 99 cm / 38 x 39 inches
    Öl , oil stick auf Leinwand