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.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art shows Helnwein's self-portait "Black Mirror".
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One-man show at the Pfalzgalerie Museum in Kaiserslautern and at the Kunstmuseum in Thun.