17/9/2014
Sigmund Freud and the Play of the Burden of Representation
21er Haus, Wien
An installation by Joseph Kosuth - With works from the Belvedere Collection and the Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection. The exhibition is both a work of art and curatorship, drawing on the artist's seminal projects.
In 1989 American Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created the installation Zero & Not on occasion of
the
fiftieth
anniversary
of
Sigmund
Freud’s
death.
It
marked
the
beginning
of
the
Sigmund
Freud
Museum
Contemporary
Art
Collection
featuring
outstanding
international artists,
to
which
Kosuth
made
a
crucial
contribution.
Twenty-five
years
later
–
the
seventy - fifth
anniversary
of
Freud’s
death
–
the
21er
Haus
and
Joseph
Kosuth
are
staging
an
exhibition
based
on
Zero & Not .
It
combines
a
series
of
the
artist’s
Freud-related
works
with
a
selection
of
artworks
from
the
Sigmund
Freud
Museum
Contemporary
Art
Collection
and
the
Belvedere
Collection.
The
exhibition
takes
the
form
of
a
spatial
installation
by
Kosuth
and
is
both
a
work
of
art and
curatorship,
drawing
on
the
artist’s
seminal
projects
Wittgenstein – Das Spiel des Unsagbaren
at
the
Vienna
Secession
(1989)
and
The Play of the Unmentionable
at
the
Brooklyn
Museum
of
Art
(1990).
With
artworks
by
John
Baldessari,
Günter
Brus,
Victor
Burgin,
Pierpaolo Calzolari,
Clegg
&
Guttmann,
Jessica
Diamond Marc
Goethals,
Douglas
Gordon,
Georg
Herold,
Susan
Hiller,
Hans
Hollein,
Jenny
Holzer,
Birgit
Jürgenssen,
Ilya
Kabakov,
Joseph
Kosuth,
Tina
Lechner,
Sherrie
Levine,
Paul
Mc Carthy,
Olaf
Nicolai,
Constanze
Ruhm,
Markus
Schinwald,
Rudolf
Schwarzkogler,
Haim
Steinbach,
Jürgen
Teller,
Franz West,
Heimo
Zobernig
etc.
Curated
by Mario
Codognato,
Joseph
Kosuth,
and
Luisa
Ziaja.
Press contact:
Tina Bayer T +43 1 79557-177 F +43 1 79557-250 T.Bayer@belvedere.at
Claudia Bauer T +43 1 79557-185 Fax +43 1 79557-250 E-mail C.Bauer@belvedere.at
21er Haus
Schweizergarten, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna
Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to 9 pm
Friday to Sunday 11 am to 6 pm
Open on holidays
Admission € 7
Seniors (60 years and above) € 5.50
Students (0-26 years) € 5.50
Groups (of 10 Persons and over) € 5.50
Children & teenager (0-18 years) free