"The American paintings", Helnwein works on a series of blue monochromatic paintings, a surreal vision of America inspired by film noir and newspaper-photography from the 50ies and 60ies.
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Inspired by Helnwein's early paintings, Argentinian writer Rodrigo M. Malmsten creates the play "Kleines Helnwein".
Premiere at the Theatro San Martin in Buenos Aires

The Ludwig Museum Cologne shows Helnwein's Installation "Poems" in the exhibition "Augenblick und Endlichkeit - Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert.
40 great photographers of the 20th century. ...

Gottfried at the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, "Augenblick und Endlichkeit"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art , "Ghost in the Shell", Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, group show.
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Gottfried Helnwein at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , "Ghost in the Shell"

1999 "Apokalypse", one man show and Installation at the Gothic Dominican-Church in Krems, Austria.
County Museum of Lower Austria ...

"20 Years Modernism, Modern Masters and Contemporary Art", Modernism Gallery San Francisco.

Innovation / Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography,Anselm Adams Center, San Francisco.

Photo session with Chuck Close in New York.

1998 One-man show at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland.

Collector Fritz Gruber donates the "Poems"- Installation to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
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Collector Fritz Gruber donates the "Poems"- Installation to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne

One-man show at Modernism Gallery, San Francisco.

"Götter, Helden und Idole" ("Gods, Heros und Idols"), Ludwig Institut Schloss Oberhausen, Germany.
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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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