No, those watercolors of decaying bodies in the Kunsthalle Viennas upcoming exhibition “Genealogies of Pain” aren't by the dark-minded South African artist Marlene Dumas, as they may appear. They're by Marilyn Manson, the Goth musician who the show's curators, Gerald Matt and Cathérine Hug, gleefully describe in the exhibition press release as the “scandal figure and thorn in the flesh of America’s moral custodians.” And he's not the only creator of eerie art in this Austrian exhibition — David Lynch will be there too.

The show, running from June 30 to July 12, is only the latest collaboration between these two adepts of the uncanny, who previously worked together on Lynch’s 1997 thriller Lost Highway (in which Manson plays a porn star). For the exhibition, the director has contributed several short films that are meant to provide a sort of aesthetic and historical context for the rocker's paintings.

Lynch, a connoisseur of the occult who oversees a children's center for transcendental meditation, has long been a fan of Manson's work. Writing the introduction to the musician's 1999 autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, he called Manson — whose stage name is derived from a combination of the name of a certain starlet and a certain cult-leading murderer — "an egg-born offspring of collective humanity."

(A strange kinship between the two artists can also be gleaned from their Twitter streams, which are similarly insane. Lynch: “This weekend I’m going to try to find out if I’m connected to the moon." Manson: “Hugh A. Warner. He made me from his seed. Natural born killers. Memorialize that.”)

While Manson’s art is primarily of interest due to its maker’s notoriety, it has no shortage of devotees. At Art Basel, Cologne dealer Brigette Schenkran out of her paintings by Manson, leading her to draw up a waiting list to satisfy those who got there too late to snatch up the unsettling works, which were priced at $53,000–133,000 apiece.