--- type: press_release title: Talking Heads language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/press/talking-heads" --- # Talking Heads ### Contemporary Dialogues with F.X. Messerschmidt 8 March 2019 – 18 August 2019 [PM-TalkingHeads-de.pdf](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-files/PM-TalkingHeads-de.pdf) [PM-TalkingHeads-en.pdf](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-files/PM-TalkingHeads-en.pdf) ![Talking Heads. — Arnulf Rainer, Round Head 1975-1976 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303734_1.jpg) ## Press images ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303740_0.jpg) Miriam Cahn, soldat, 17.+21.01.2012, 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303739_0.jpg) Miriam Cahn, frau + mann oder umgekehrt, 13.12.1995, 1995 Courtesy of the artist and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303738_0.jpg) Miriam Cahn, schreck, 30.03.15, 2015 Courtesy of the artist and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303737_0.jpg) Arnulf Rainer, Smooth Visage Full of Rage, 1975-1976 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303736_1.jpg) Arnulf Rainer, Stones under the Lip, 1975-1976 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303735_1.jpg) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Simpleton, 1777/1783 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303734_2.jpg) Arnulf Rainer, Round Head 1975-1976 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303733_0.jpg) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Troubled Man, 1775–1777 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_532413303732_0.jpg) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Second Beak Head, 1777–1781 © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866408132.jpg) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Strong Odor, 1777-83 © Belvedere, Vienna, Photo: Johannes Stoll ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406392_0.jpg) Douglas Gordon, The Making of Monster, 1996 Courtesy: Studio lost but found, Berlin © Studio lost but found / Douglas Gordon / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406395_0.jpg) Bruce Nauman, Frankfurt Portfolio, 1990 © Bruce Nauman/ Bildrecht Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406398_0.jpg) Mara Mattuschka, Messerschmidt 2, 2018 Gottwald Desalla, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2019, Photo: Armin Plankensteiner ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406402_0.jpg) Mara Mattuschka, Messerschmidt 3, 2018 Courtesy the artist © Bildrecht, Vienna, Photo: Pixelstorm, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406408.jpg) Bruce Nauman, Studies for Holograms, a - e, 1970 private collection Berlin © Bruce Nauman/ Bildrecht Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406411_0.jpg) Bruce Nauman, Studies for Holograms, a - e, 1970 private collection Berlin © Bruce Nauman/ Bildrecht Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866406414_0.jpg) Mara Mattuschka, NabelFabel, 1984 16mm-Film, Sound sixpackfilm © Bildrecht Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866408286.jpg) Kurt Kren 2/60 48 Köpfe aus dem Szondi-Test, 1960 sixpackfilm © Bildrecht Vienna, 2019 ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866412971.jpg) Maria Lassnig, Sunbathing (Sphinx), 1964/65 Private collection, Vienna © Simon Hanzer ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413052.jpg) Mara Mattuschka, Messerschmidt 4, 2018 Courtesy the artist, © Bildrecht, Wien, Photo: Pixelstorm, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413942.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413941.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413940.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Wien ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413938.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413937_0.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413935.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413932.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna ![Image](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/jart-images/_549866413933_0.jpg) Exhibition view "Talking Heads" Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna The texts, images, and documents provided here are copyrighted and are made available exclusively for the purpose of reporting on the exhibitions mentioned. Please contact the press team in regards to image credits and copyrights. For any additional use or distribution, please obtain approval in writing from the press team. For more information and press images please contact: #### Media Relations ##### Petra Fuchs T: [+43 1 795 57-177](tel:+43179557-177) M: [+43 664 800 141-177](tel:+43664800141-177) E-Mail: [**p.fuchs@belvedere.at**](mailto:p.fuchs@belvedere.at) ## Related exposition [**Talking Heads**](https://www.belvedere.at/en/talking-heads) — Contemporary Dialogues with F.X. Messerschmidt — 8 March 2019 - 18 August 2019 — Exhibition — Lower Belvedere