--- type: exposition title: Sigmund Freud language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/sigmund-freud" --- # Sigmund Freud ## and the Play on the Burden of Representation ![Print, photograph Print: 263 x 230 x 22cm, Photograph: 168 x 133 cm](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_439886223318.jpg.webp?itok=Yz7sB2I-) **Duration:** 19 September 2014 - 11 January 2015 **In 1989, American Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created the installation *Zero & Not* at Berggasse 19 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s death. This project laid the basis for the contemporary art collection of the Sigmund Freud Museum, which today features distinguished international artists.** Twenty-five years later – on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of the founder of psychoanalysis – the 21er Haus and Joseph Kosuth are staging a new version of *Zero & Not* as the main spatial element of the exhibition *Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation*. It combines most of the artist’s key Freud-related works with the Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection, a selection from the Belvedere Collection, as well as recent works on the subject of art and psychoanalysis. In its artistic and curatorial approach the show takes the form of a large installation by Kosuth, drawing on his seminal exhibition projects *Wittgenstein – Das Spiel des Unsagbaren* at the Vienna Secession (1989) and *The Play of the Unmentionable* at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (1990). Curated by Luisa Ziaja, Mario Codognato und Joseph Kosuth. **With works by** Magnus Arnason, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Berkowski, Linda Bilda, Pierre Bismuth, Fatima Bornemissza, Mike Bouchet, Marcel Broodthaers, Victoria Browne, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Gerard Byrne, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Theres Cassini, Clegg & Guttmann, Peter Coffin, Adriana Czernin, Thomas Demand, Jessica Diamond, Mark Dion, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jimmie Durham, Marc Goethals, Douglas Gordon, Robert Gruber, Caroline Heider, Georg Herold, Susan Hiller, Damien Hirst, Christine Hohenbüchler, Hans Hollein, Jenny Holzer, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Joseph Kosuth, Liane Lang, Tina Lechner, Sherrie Levine, Thomas Locher, Sarah Lucas, Sanna Marander/Niklas Tafra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Olaf Nicolai, Albert Oehlen, Meret Oppenheim, Edith Payer, Arnulf Rainer, Constanze Ruhm/Matthias Herrmann, Markus Schinwald, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Cindy Sherman, Cindy Smith, Ettore Spalletti, Haim Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Rudolf Stingel, Jürgen Teller, Rosemarie Trockel, Gavin Turk, Bill Viola, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Tanja Widmann, Francesca Woodman, Heimo Zobernig. With works from the Belvedere Collection and the Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ## Impressions - ![Sigmund Freud — Exhibition view. Sigmund Freud and the Play of the Burden of Representation — Foto: Ulrich Dertschei, \xa9 Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223327.jpg.webp?itok=UR29sJs_) - ![Sigmund Freud — Exhibition view. Sigmund Freud and the Play of the Burden of Representation — Foto: Ulrich Dertschei, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223328.jpg.webp?itok=AJqP4rP7) - ![Sigmund Freud — Exhibition view. Sigmund Freud and the Play of the Burden of Representation — Foto: Ulrich Dertschei, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223326.jpg.webp?itok=nMy3X1en) - ![Neon 12 x 171 cm — Joseph Kosuth, \u201eC.S. II # 11, 1988 — Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London, © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223320.jpg.webp?itok=cmQVgw8V) - ![Green neon ca. 30 x 150 cm — Joseph Kosuth, Discharge lege artis conversion (green), 1986 — Courtesy Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014, Photo: © Matthias Bildstein](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223317.jpg.webp?itok=cbmyUxSK) - ![Single channel video installation without sound Dimension variable — Douglas Gordon, A Divided Self II, 1996 — Courtesy Studio lost but found, Berlin © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223337.jpg.webp?itok=THzkzsxq) - ![Cibachrome (Diasec) 134 x 93.8 cm — Clegg & Guttmann, Text in Context, 1997 — Courtesy Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223340.jpg.webp?itok=3rDc6hiy) - ![Ink and acrylic on canvas 200 x 170 cm — Wolfgang Berkowski, His mother’s death forces him to confront his own mortality. At home one evening he writes, “Around 6 p.m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and forever I am my own mother., 2009 — Courtesy Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna,© the artist](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223339.jpg.webp?itok=VNzyBBE3) - ![Black and White Photograph 41 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm — Birgit Jürgenssen, Nest, 1979 — Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014, Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223333.jpg.webp?itok=vfqDhOjv) - ![Metal, paint 20 x 25.5 cm — Jenny Holzer, The Living Series, 1981-82 — Courtesy Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014, Photo: \xa9 Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886223345.jpg.webp?itok=lCQP9f1z)