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1997
Helnwein
The Helnwein Retrospective at the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg
Alexander Borovsky
Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
The Marble Palace and St. Michaels palace
Helnwein Monograph, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg texts by: Alexander Borovsky Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Статья А.Д.Боровского - THE HELNWEIN PASSION Peter Selz Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley. Former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum. HELNWEIN: THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR Klaus Honnef Curator for Contemporary Art at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn THE SUBVERSIVE POWER OF ART Evgenija Nicolaevna Petrova Chief Curator of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg THE METAPHORICAL PRINCIPLE OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
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2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
GHOST IN THE SHELL
Robert A. Sobieszek
Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000
Historian Peter Selz has compared Gottfried Helnwein's tortured, screaming, and bandaged self-portraits to Messerschmidt's sculptural self-portraits, but the artist has said, " The reason why I took up the subject of self-portraits and why I have put myself on stage was to function as a kind of representative. There is nothing autobiographical, no therapy, and it says nothing about me personally. I am always available as a model." ...
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2004 - 2005
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
GOTFRIED HELNWEIN: THE CHILD - One man show, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
..A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within. . "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." Jean Cocteau
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2010
Tel Aviv
Israel
Ninth November Night
The Installation by Gottfried Helnwein in memory of "Kristallnacht" 1938, is for the first time presented in Israel.
The artist erected this art-installation originally in fall 1988 in the city of Cologne in Germany, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the pogrom-night of November 9, 1938. The Installation was placed between the Cologne Cathedral and the Ludwig Museum, alongside the railroad track of the central station. It was entirely financed by the artist. A hundred meter long wall of pictures with large images of children's faces, in a seemingly endless row, as if made to line up to be "selected". With the faces of christian, jewish and handicapped children, that lived in Germany in 1988. In the second night after the opening, unknown people cut all the throats of the children on the pictures. For the first time this memorial is now presented in Israel and for that occasion the artist included faces of children living in Israel in 2010.
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2009
Jerusalem Post
arts & culture
Sleep of Death
Helen Kaye
"In a very poetic way [Hanoch Levin] describes the world we live in," says Helnwein, "with the child as metaphor for innocence, purity, confronted with the corrupt adult world. The adult characters, even the mother and father, are all archetypes; the child doesn't understand this world. With complete trust, he thinks that the bond between himself and his mother is unbreakable, but, of course, it's broken… A huge picture-wall of a sleeping child, through which the soldiers break, is the first of four amazing sets, culminating in a "universe of dead children in an infinity of space."
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2008
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İstanbul Modern Fotoğraf Serileri'nde Gottfried Helnwein
İstanbul Modern
İstanbul Modern, Orhan Cem Çetin ve Murat Germen'in yönettiği, ayda bir kez gerçekleştirilen olan Çağdaş Fotoğraf Serileri’ne devam ediyor. İzleyicilerden aktif katılım beklenen bir tartışma ve paylaşma platformu olan Çağdaş Fotoğraf Serileri’nin 19 Temmuz tarihinde gerçekleştirilecek buluşmasında tartışma konusu, Avusturyalı çağdaş sanatçı Gottfried Helnwein olacak.
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2007
Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz
Wien
FACE IT
Gottfried Helnwein Solo Show
Gottfried Helnwein's latest exhibition, "Face It", is the artist's first show in his native Austria since 1985. A retrospective of 40 works from the 1970s to the present, it is more shocking than the Royal Academy's infamous "Sensation" of 1997. Helnwein aims to disturb not with, say, an elephant-dung Madonna, as Chris Ofili did then, but with a far more controversial Virgin. Of all his paintings, the most disturbing is Epiphany (1996), for which he dips into our collective memory of Christianity's most famous birth. This Austrian Catholic Nativity scene has no magi bearing gifts. Madonna and child are encircled by five respectful Waffen SS officers palpably in awe of the idealised, kitsch-blonde Virgin. The Christ toddler, who stands on Mary's lap, stares defiantly out of the canvas. Helnwein's baby Jesus is Adolf Hitler. (Julia Pascal, New Statesman, UK, "Nazi Dreaming", April 10, 2006)
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2006 - 2007
The Denver Art Museum
Kent and Vicki Logan donated over 200 artworks to the Denver Art Museum's Modern and Cpontemporary Art department.
RADAR
Exhibition catalogue
The Logan Collection
Gottfried Helnwein's Epiphany (Adoration of the Magi) is a strange takeoff on a traditional New Testament theme in art. The work depicts a Madonnalike mother displaying her baby to attentive Nazi officers, Painted in hyperrealist grisaille with chiaroscuro effects, the work resembles an old documentary photograph made huge. The eerie, sinister overtones are unmistakable. Who is this mother? What do these officers want with her and her child? What kind of official paper might the officer on the left hold in his hand and what might be its result? Helnwein, characteristically, presents us with an ambiguous, haunting image and leaves us to wonder about its meaning... With its huge size, hyperrealist style, and disturbing content, this unsettling work bestows a psychological anxiety accompanied by a strong magnetic pull. Confronting it, we tend to stare-entranced by both its beauty and its seductive, malevolent overtones...
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2006
Fenton Gallery
Cork, Ireland
One man show
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2006
FotoFest 2006, Houston
The Eleventh International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art
Helnwein - DIARY OF THE ARTIST AGAINST VIOLENCE
Mackey Gallery
Houston, Texas
Artists Responding to Violence
Helnwein Installation and one man show Mackey Gallery Houston, Texas
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2005
schulnetz.nibis.de
"Bilder vom Menschen" am Beispiel der Arbeiten von Gottfried Helnwein
Adressaten: Lehrkräfte, die Kunst an Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen aller Fortbildungsbereiche unterrichten
Koop-Partner: Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover
Zielsetzung: Der im Unterricht der Qualifikationsphase vertieft zu behandelnde thematische Schwerpunkt 1 "Bilder vom Menschen" gibt u.a. die Auseinandersetzung mit "Bildern der Entfremdung" und die Inszenierung der menschlichen Figur vor. Bezüge zu dem thematischen Schwerpunkt 2 sind insbesondere durch die für Helnwein charakteristische Einbindung der menschlichen Figur in Raumzusammenhänge gegeben. Eine Annäherung an das Werk Helnweins soll in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem sich in den Arbeiten manifestierenden Menschenbild erfolgen.
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2004
The American Film Institute
AFIFEST, Los Angeles
Helnwein's "Ninth November Night" at the American Film Institute Festival AFIFEST in Los Angeles
The ArcLight Hollywood
Directed by Henning Lohner
A documentary on the works of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein commemorating the Reichskristallnacht will bw screened on November 13th and 14th 2004. Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximiliam Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.
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2004
Modernism Gallery
San Francisco
Modern Sleep II
one man show
New works paintings and photography
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2003
Museum of Tolerance / Simon Wiesenthal Center
Los Angeles
Commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the infamous Nazi “Kristallnacht” 1938 and premiere of the Helnwein documentary
SURVIVORS, ACTIVISTS, DIPLOMATS AND CELEBRITIES JOIN AT MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE TO COMMEMORATE
On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorated the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) pogrom. The Wiesenthal Center's observance of the 65th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" was highlighted by the presentation of the work of Gottfried Helnwein and the screening of "Ninth November Night," a documentary about the artist's commitment to remind the world of the Holocaust.
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2003
Museum of Tolerance / Simon Wiesenthal Center
Los Angeles
HELNWEIN - NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT
The Documentary, premiering at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles.
On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorates the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) program which targeted 1,000 synagogues in Germany and Austria and marked the beginning of the end of European Jewry. The commemoration will be highlighted by the screening of a documentary by renowned Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, 9th November Night, who has committed himself and his art to reminding the world of the Holocaust. The documentary is based upon his 1988 exhibit of seventeen children’s portraits that were displayed in commemoration of Kristallnacht in Cologne, Germany. Just days into the exhibit, these portraits were vandalized.. “The fury with which the neo-nazis reacted to these portraits is understandable inasmuch as it is the very same fury with which they have for years been fighting against The Diary of Anne Frank,” said famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. “The murder of children rouses abhorrence and conflict in every human, whether they are motivated by ideology or insanity. The urge to destroy has survived; the portraits bear witness to its rage.”
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2003
Los Angeles Art Show 2003
Modern Sleep
Installation, Los Angeles Art Show 2003
Installation "Modern Sleep", 2003, digital print on vinyl, 20 by 60 feet in front of the Barker Hangar at the Los Angeles Art Show 2003, 3021 Airport Avenue at Santa Monica Airport.
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2003
Ludwig Múzeum Budapest – Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum
Emberi történetek / Human Stories
Az Essl Gyûjtemény Karl-Heinz Essl
Fotómunkák és festmények az Essl Gyûjteménybõl
Vanessa Beecroft, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Ilse Haider, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Birgit Jürgenssen, Marie-Jo Lafontaine,Tracey Moffatt, Thomas Ruff, Shirin Neshat, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Lois Renner, Eva Schlegel, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, és Rosemarie Trockel 2003. március 14 – június 1.
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2003
Sydney Festival
The Sydney Opera House
Close Your Little Eyes
Australia
World premiere, the festival commission presents
Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history. Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history.
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2002
Sammlung Essl – Museum Kunst der Gegenwart
Klosterneuburg/Vienna
Augenblick – Foto/Kunst (In the Blink of an Eye – Photo/Art)
the correlation between fotography and paintings
group show Gottfried Helnwein, Thomas Struth, Marie-Lo Lafontaine, Nan Goldin, Vanessa Beecroft, Sean Scully and others Exhibition catalogue: Catalogue German / English with contributions by Gabriele Bösch, Christine Frisinghelli, Rainer Igla / Michael Mauracher, Edelbert Köb, Lois Renner and Eva Schlegel The exhibition includes around 85 works from the collection's holdings and several loans, selected by Gabriele Bösch from the perspective of photo/art. Many of the photographic works owned by the collection are now showcased for the first time and put into a traditional painting context, thereby inviting an exciting discourse between painting and photography.
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2001
Kilkenny, Ireland
Helnwein at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001
one-man show at the Butler House and large Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny
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