41 contemporary artists were invited to visually capture their positions against Freud’s proverbial phrase with the ultimate goal not only of the osmosis between three European cultures but also of encounters of persons, positions, views and ideas at the crossroads of Saint Petersburg.

The Freud’s Dream Museum was founded in 1999 in Saint Petersburg, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1899), while a Museum dedicated to Freud since 1971 has been operating in Vienna (Berggasse 19, Wien), with the corresponding Freud Museum operating since 1986 also in London (20 Maresfield Gardens, London), where the psychoanalyst spent the last years of his life when he escaped the Nazi annexation of Austria. Already there are contacts for direct collaboration with the above-mentioned Museums and presentation of the exhibition in Vienna and London. At the same time our intentions and actions converge in the presentation of the exhibition, after Saint Petersburg, in Athens, Cyprus, Chania, Rethymno and Heraklion, Crete, bringing the artistic contemplation of Freud’s words to contact with as great an audience as possible that is not complacent and craves our interdisciplinary dialogue.

The exhibition is presented by the Contemporary Art Museum of Chania - Olivepress and the Freud’s Dream Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and is co-organised by the Region of Crete, the Regional Unity of Chania and the Municipality of Platanias.