Past Exhibitions
Oliver Clegg – A Knight’s Move
The title comes from Freud’s earliest reference to chess in Studies on Hysteria (1893) where he relates the complex, zigzagging, move of the Knight to the twists and turns of the human mind in psychoanalysis.
Sharon Kivland – Freud Dreams of Rome
An exhibition of 11 prints from Freud on Holiday
“Thought is after all nothing but a substitute for a hallucinatory wish …”
Sharon Kivland’s prints above the stairwell at the Freud Museum show us a Rome we have never seen before.
William Cobbing – Gradiva Project
William Cobbing’s solo exhibition ‘Gradiva Project’ at The Freud Museum incorporates new sculpture, installation and video that refer to the Gradiva bas-relief displayed in Freud’s study.
Gradiva: The Cure Through Love
Freud as archaeological literary critic. When the surrealists opened an art gallery in Paris in 1937, they called it Gradiva as a tribute to Freud and his essay ‘Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva’
Promised Lands: Freud’s Exiles
This exhibition, first shown in 1996, was brought back as a counterpoint to Freud's Wanderlust.
Freud’s Wanderlust
This exhibition on Freud the traveller includes travel paraphernalia drawn from the archive, maps, prints, photographs, letters, post cards, books and objects collected by Freud on his travels.
Vivienne Koorland – Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes)
The word ‘reisemalheurs’ is taken from a letter written by Sigmund Freud to his family while on holiday in Blackpool in 1908.
Tim Noble & Sue Webster – Polymorphous Perverse
Polymorphous Perverse, the exhibition by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, illustrates how sexuality and violence influence our perception of reality, turning our world into one of fragmentation, anxiety and horror.
On the Couch: Psychoanalysis in Cartoons, Art from The New Yorker
Because psychoanalysis is a serious business, it has become a classic target of cartoonists.