Mini-Serie "FACING TIME– Then and Now: Gradiva Revisited" - Künstlerinnengespräch mit Tamara Horáková, Kunsttheoretikerin und Kuratorin Ruth Maurer und Direktorin Monika Pessler | Vienna Art Week 2026

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The artist talk focuses on the latest donation to the Sigmund Freud Museum’s art collection: Gradiva Revisited – the work of artist Tamara Horáková is as much a reference to current events as it is to the historical dimensions of the ancient figure. The relief of the gracefully striding Gradiva once adorned the wall above Freud’s treatment couch from where it returned the patient’s gaze.

With Gradiva Revisited, Horáková draws attention to a chance encounter between two photographs that are juxtaposed in the layout of the international New York Times on February 23, 2023. In her artistic study, the objet trouvé mutates into an impressive comparison between the photographic documentation of Ukrainian soldiers in the wintry Donbas and a striding mannequin that seems to pause in step in a similar way to its counterpart: the Gradiva, named after the “god of war marching out to battle” Mars Gradivus and for centuries a symbol of the artistic avant-garde as an ever-recurring, time-transcending enigma

Artist Tamara Horáková, art theorist and curator Ruth Maurer and director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Monika Pessler discuss this homage to Berggasse 19.

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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.