1997 Retrospective at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg,.
The collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig donate 53 works of Helnwein to the Museum Ludwig in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg ...

Gottfried Helnwein, 1997 Retrospective at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

"Die Hamletmaschine" by Heiner Müller.
Version by Gert Hof and Gottfried Helnwein, with Les Tambours du Bronx and Caspar Brötzmann
47th Berliner Festwochen, Arena, Berlin and Muffathalle, Munich

Helnwein's painting "Dresden" at the Opening group show of the Ludwig Museum in the National Chinese Museum of Fine Art, Beijing..

Helnwein moves with his family to Ireland..
At first he lives in Dublin and in 1998 he acquires a castle in County Tipperary where lives and works since then. ...

1996 Helnwein works on the photo-series "Poems".
a series of photographic pictures of people who have died a violent death
He photographs the photographs of dead people and again and again photographs the photographs of the photographs ultimately to the point of dissolution. ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photography selected from the museum collection. group show.

Set and costumes for "Pasolini" at the Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg;.
directed by Hans Kresnik. ...

One-man show in the Fine Arts Museum, Otaru, Japan. Installation "Neunter November Nacht".
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1995 Group exhibition at Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen: "Versuche zu trauern" ("Trying to Mourne").
master pieces from the Ludwig Collection from antiquity to the present day. ...

Installation "Ninth November Night - Selektion" in Berlin, Kulturbrauerei..

"Faces" one-man show, Houston Centre for Photography..
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1994 "Faces" one-man show in the Centre International Contemporain d'Art in Montreal..

Helnwein works on the "Fire"- series.
a series of dark monochrome paintings with the faces of Arthur Rimbaud, Jim Morrison, Malcolm X, Mishima, Mayakovski, Rosa Luxemburg, Ulrike Meinhof and others.

One-man show in the Städtisches Museum, Schleswig.

"Das Jahrzehnt der Malerei" (The Decade of Painting).
Austrian Artists of the Schömer Collection, Vienna
in the Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany.

Helnwein works intensively on the development of new artistic techniques.
He creates new mixed-media techniques by developing, changing, altering and combining various images on the computer and painting them finally with different media on canvas, (usally: oil, acrylic and ink-jet)

1993 One-man show "Faces" at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.
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"Faces", one-man show in the Munich Stadtmuseum.

"Aktion-Reaktion" (Action-Reaction) exhibition of the Austrian painters Rainer, Nitsch, Brus, and Helnwein, works from the Schömer collection, at the Foundation Fiecht, Austria.

In the Ludwig Forum in Aachen the "48 Portraits" are shown in the "Künstlerportraits" exhibition.