Violence needs to be shown and viewed with a critical eye – its traces on the body, in the psyche and in society demand attention and awareness. Psychoanalysis has been doing just this forever. The new special exhibition in the Sigmund Freud Museum focuses on the medium of comics. From October, it will showcase the variety of its methods and aesthetic alternatives in representing individual and collective experiences of violence. Illuminating for psychoanalysis, comics present the unfathomable and unpronounceable – and they can be useful in opening up new perspectives on such experiences, and thus in addressing traumata.
The special exhibition Narrating Violence. A Comic Exhibition addresses the potential of this medium to (re)learn to see violence, and covers sexualized violence, the Shoah, war, displacement and migration as well as adolescent experiences of violence.
Sigmund Freud Museum
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19. This is the address where Sigmund Freud lived and worked for 47 years until he was forced to flee from the Nazi regime in 1938. In 1971 , the Sigmund Freud Museum was founded here, and after extensive renovation and expansion reopened in 2020. Three permanent exhibitions in Freud’s former living and office rooms, an art presentation in the Showroom Berggasse 19 as well as special exhibitions present Freud’s multi-layered cultural legacy: they are dedicated to his life and work, the development of psychoanalysis in theory and practice, and its importance for the fields of society, science, and art. The history of the house at Berggasse 19 and the fates of its occupants are also brought into focus.
Narrating Violence. A comic exhibition
20 Oct 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse, Wien, Österreich
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