Art Collection
			The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection The installation "Zero & Not" by the American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth was realized in 1989 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Sigmund Freud's death. The artist's continual occupation with Sigmund Freud's theories manifested itself in this work. Together with Peter Pakesch, Joseph Kosuth was then able to convince a number of artist colleagues to each donate one work to the Sigmund Freud Museum. The goal of this initiative was to confront a scientific institution with contemporary art. With gifts from John Baldessari, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Georg Herold, Jenny Holzer, Ilya Kabakov and Franz West, the Sigmund Freud Museum initiated a noteworthy effort to bring together contemporary art and psychoanalysis. At the initiative of Sigmund Freud Museum Director Inge Scholz-Strasser and Joseph Kosuth, the existing collection was expanded in 1997. The artists Clegg & Guttmann, Jessica Diamond, Marc Goethals, Sherrie Levine, Haim Steinbach and Heimo Zobernig each added one of their works to the collection. Under the name The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection" (former: Foundation for the Arts, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna), the expanded collection was presented to the public. Since then it has been on view in varying arrangements in the museum's rooms. The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection International The Art Collection from the Sigmund Freud Museum is on display worldwide: 2007 Moscow Februar 22 - May 21, 2007 Stella Art Skariatinskiy An Exhibition of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in cooperation with the Stella Art Foundation Stella Art Foundation Istanbul January 12 - January31, 2007 Yapi Kredi Kültür Merkezi An Exhibition of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul and Yapi Kredi Yapi Kredi Cultural Centre 2006 New York April 25 - June 8, 2006 Austrian Cultural Forum New York An Exhibition of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York Austrian Cultural Forum New York