2013

XL. Sigmund Freud Lecture

Joseph Kosuth

Freud, Beckett, and the Uncanny

 --Some thoughts on Art as Installation

Monday, 6 May 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien

in English

Presentation: Peter Pakesch, Intendant Universalmuseums Joanneum (Graz)

Welcome: Inge Scholz-Strasser, Chairwoman Sigmund Freud Foundation

limited seating capcity, registration obligatory: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

We kindly ask to arrive in time since we cannot make personal reservations

 Joseph Kosuth is philosopher and artist and is renowned as one of the founders of coneptual art. Since 1995, he is consulting the Sigmund Freud Museum and has realised various art projects on site. Togehter with Peter Pakesch and Inge Scholz-Strasser, he founded the art collection  The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection. From 1955 to 1962, he stuied at Toledo Museum School of Arts, 1963/1964 at Cleveland Art Institute and from 1965 to 1967 at School of Visual Arts, New York. He founded and directed the Museum of Normal Art. From 1971 to 1972, Kosuth studied Anthropology and Philosophy at New School for Social Research, New York. He edited numerous publication, currently Kosuth lives and works in London.

Peter Pakesch, born 1955 in Graz, has served as Intendant of Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, since 2003. From 1996 to 2003, he was director of Kunsthalle Basel, from 1981 to 1993, he ran the Galerie Peter Pakesch in Vienna. Since 1989, Pakesch has taken part in various exhibition projects in contect of the Sigmund Freud Museum. In 1985, he founded the Grazer Kunstverein (Graz Arts' association), from 1976 to 1991, he worked as a curator for Forum Stadtpark, steirischer herbst and Grazer Kunstverein. From 1973 to 1980, hestudied architecture at TU Graz.

2012

XXXIX. Sigmund Freud Lecture

Peter Bieri

Selbsterkenntnis durch Erzählungen (in German)

Sunday, May 6, 2012, 6 p.m.

Billrothhaus, Frankgasse 8, 1090 Vienna

Registration:veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

2011

XXXVIII. Sigmund Freud Lecture

Siri Hustvedt

Freud's Playground: Some Thoughts on the Art and Science of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity

Friday, 6 May 2011, 6 p.m.

Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Kassensaal

Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna

Moderator: Andrea Bronner

Admission free

Places are limited, registration obligatory: veranstaltung@freud-museum.at

Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She studied Literature at the Columbia University and wrote her dissertation on Charles Dickens. She lives in Brooklyn and is married to the novelist Paul Auster with whom she has a daughter. Hustvedt became known through her novels The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl and most of all with her international bestsellers What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American and The Shaking Woman or A History of my Nerves.

2010

XXXVII. Sigmund Freud Lecture

Moshe Zuckermann

Freuds Weltsicht und die Theorie vom "Autoritären Charakter"

zur Aktualität der Freudschen Kategorien für die gegenwärtige Gesellschaftsanalyse

Thursday, 6 May 2010, 7 p.m.

Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna