This presentation brings together a selection of works encountered within contemporary museum collections in Vienna, placed in dialogue with artists from Adler & Moriarty.

Rather than comparison, the exhibition operates through proximity, considering how images, forms, and structures recur across different contexts of display. Works are viewed not in isolation, but within a broader visual field in which relationships emerge over time.

Material Time brings together works in which process and surface operate as records of duration, where materials are not fixed but subject to change, accumulation and transformation.

Across painting and image-based practices, works are approached as sites in which time is embedded, through layering, erosion and reworking, so that what is encountered is not a resolved image, but the result of an ongoing material condition.

The works presented do not represent time, but hold it.

Dolmen proposes a structure through which material, image and perception are encountered as part of a temporal system.

Taking inspiration from prehistoric dolmen sites in which remains from different eras were held within a single form, the exhibition brings together works that operate across time, where surface, image and process act as carriers of duration and transformation.