Program Highlights 2025
Annual theme 2025: Being Human
In 2025, the Sigmund Freud Museum's program will focus on the annual theme “Being Human”. Events and exhibitions explore questions about human existence in times of uncertainty, environmental destruction and technological development.
Online exhibition Being Human
The members of the advisory board dedicate themselves to the annual theme with text and image contributions. The online presentation will be available on the museum website from the beginning of the year.
Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud. Temporary exhibition, until September 22
In the exhibition Analysis Interminable, five current psychoanalytic schools are presented, whose similarities and differentiations show contemporary psychoanalysis as a multi-layered and progressive science of the unconscious.
Haut (Skin). Installation by Stephanie Pflaum, until October 2025
The installation “Haut” by Austrian artist Stephanie Pflaum, created especially for the Sigmund Freud Museum, can be seen in the Showroom Berggasse 19. In her work, Pflaum conveys the uncanny through its “veiled character”.
Sigmund Freud Lecture with J.M. Coetzee, May 6
The South African-born writer and Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee will give the LII. Sigmund Freud Lecture in the reading room of the Library of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum.
Conference “What is ‘Nature’ in Human Nature?”, June 12-13
Where are the boundaries between animal and human, between human and machine, and where do they lie between nature and culture? The new age of the Anthropocene signifies the beginning of a new civilization, raising new challenges and questions. What role does psychoanalysis play in this discourse? The Sigmund Freud Museum's annual conference addresses these questions from different perspectives and scientific disciplines.
Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud. Special exhibition, October 24, 2025 to November 9, 2026
The dehumanization in the Nazi era, examplified by the treatment of the Freud family, is shown in this special exhibition starting in autumn 2025 - new archive finds and discoveries concerning the history of the expulsion and extermination of the family form the basis of this exhibition. Freud's flight and deprivation, the murder of his family members and the treatment of the perpetrators after 1945 are the focus of the exhibtion.
Fulbright-Freud Lecturer: Max Cavitch
In 2025, Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania University, will conduct research at Berggasse 19 as the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis. His project has the working title: “Fido and Psyche: Dogs In and Around Psychoanalysis, 1871-2022”. He will teach at the University of Vienna at the Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature.
Further events and collaborations in 2025
The established event series Psychoanalysis under Conditions of War and Leonardo will continue in 2025. The joint screenings with Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animation Film Festival at the Sigmund Freud Museum will also take place in 2025 .
International collaborations and events with partner institutions in the fields of psychoanalysis, art and cultural studies will offer the opportunity to participate in current discourses.
