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Modernism Inc, San Francisco, Barry Friedman, New York

Monumentalgemälde an der Linken Wienzeile in Wien

The exhibition includes works by: Basil Blackshaw, Dorothy Cross, William Crozier, Mary FitzGerald, Martin Gale, Gottfried Helnwein, Elizabeth Magill, Janet Mullarney, Paul Nugent, Hughie O’Donoghue, Linda Quinlan.

Mit der Ausstellung «Nach 1970 - Österreichische Kunst aus der Albertina» setzt die Albertina eine Reihe fort, die sie im Vorjahr mit «Kunst nach 1970» begonnen hat. Diesmal liegt das besondere Augenmerk auf Österreich. Gezeigt werden rund 220 Werke, die einen weiteren Einblick in die insgesamt über 20'000 Arbeiten umfassende Sammlung an Gegenwartskunst der Albertina geben. Mit dieser Präsentation werden auch die neu errichteten Ausstellungsräume der Albertina im zweiten Obergeschoss eröffnet. Erstmals werden dabei zum Großteil jüngere Sammlungszuwächse der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. In der um 2'000 m² erweiterten Ausstellungsfläche werden Werke von über 33 Künstlerinnen und

Artists are the visual, verbal, and audio guardians of our collective consciousness. For example, few can remember the politics or history of 18th century Europe, but the music of Mozart and the paintings of Watteau continue to be a source of inspiration. We might not always like the message, but it is artists that distil the essence of an era. They serve as thoughtful messengers to a sometimes unperceptive present but an often receptive future.
 — Robert Flynn Johnson Gottfried Helnwein Catalogue for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Mit Werken von Helnwein, Nitsch, Kubin, Deutschbauer&Spring, Moises, Hauenschild&Ritter und Anzinger.

Collectors contemporary presents its most evocative works to date

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.

The exhibition Angels Sleeping is a thematic cross-section, predominantly of the painting work of the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. The five sections of the exhibition present the fundamental circuits of Helnwein’s work. The introduction comprises heads – faces, including the artist’s iconic self-portrait, painfully acute metaphors of the limits on freedom of expression in Austria in the 1970s and 80s. The artist’s merciless approach to the residues of the Nazi past of his country is a further theme, developed in monochrome, hyperrealistic painting. The central and still extremely relevant theme of Helnwein’s work however is das malträtierte Kind, the child exposed to suffering. The author engages with this theme in various positions from his early works from the 1970s up to the present day. His collection of works on this theme is given the largest space. Violence committed against children, in contrast with their passive exposure, distressed astonishment and impossibility of defending themselves against the world of adults is partially shifted into a further position, ironically entitled Art in Amerika. This presents the relationships of the white, frequently uniformed “majority” to other ethnic groups and minorities, particularly in the United States, sharpened by the photographic precision of the images.

Chargesheimer, Claude Fauville, Bettina Gruber, David Hockney, Jürgen Klauke, Floris M. Neusüss, Herbert Döring-Spengler,Gottfried Helnwein, u.a.

Gottfried Helnwein konzipierte und organisierte die erste Musumsausstellung des künstlerischen Werkes von Carl Barks. Von 1994 bis 1997 wurde die Retrospektive in zehn europäischen Museen gezeigt und von über 700 000 Menschen gesehen. - 2007 stellt er die Ausstellung für das Karikaturmuseum Krems neu zusammen, die nun das erste mal in Österreich gezeigt wird.

Various themes and concerns are explored by the artists including gender, social, and ethnic identity perception of the self (Su-en Wong); distortions of scale (Eisenman and Philips); use of cartoon or highly stylized imagery (Wesley, Ali, Fujita, Ofili); utilizing the superhero image (Warhol and Ramos); revisiting the Surreal figure (Tyson, Dingle, Quinn, Gormley); composite images of fictional characters (Kauper, Yuskavage, Currin, Lijun, Schütte); emotionally charged faces and forms (Flannigan, Gottfried Helnwein); a twisted notion of reality that reflects a dark world view (McLane, Middlebrook); images of the human form moving through time and space (Herring, Nauman); and the spirit of Neo-expressionism (Clemente, Brown).

Helnwein was deeply influenced by the Holocaust, as well as by popular cultural references like comics and rock music. His imagery is unsettling, dark, and deeply compelling, carrying powerful messages of political disturbance and social unease.

The exhibition was organised and curated by Gottfried Helnwein

Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands. High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify. Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642).

Masterpieces from the Essl Collection and Bank Austria Collection

Vicki and Kent Logan hosting a dinner at their home in honor of Gottfried Helnwein.

Apama Mackey Gallery Houston, Texas

In memory of Francisco de Goya

FIGURES OF DESIRE: fantasies of identification, disguises or transformations, social roles in construction of gender and sexuality.

Die Ausstellung reflektiert Persönlichkeit und Werk des bedeutenden Grazer Dramatikers Wolfgang Bauer in Form einer simultanen Videoinstallation mit Erinnerungen seiner Freunde und Weggefährten, wie u. a. Gert Jonke, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Herbert Achternbusch, Max Droschl, Franz Ringel, Barbara Frischmuth, Gottfried Helnwein, Alfred Kolleritsch, Olga Neuwirth, Paulus Manker, Heribert Sasse, Ulrich Schulenburg, Heinz Sichrovsky, Peter Weibel, Heidi und Jack Bauer.

The exhibit will explore the intersection of art, the body, and medical procedures, with the implicit fear of bodily pain (real or imagined) as a major theme. The human body is vulnerable and mortal, yet it is also the biological basis of human existence. "Body Anxious" includes works by artists from around the world, in, often, unconventional media, who examine the anxieties associated with medical procedures and instruments, and other experiences that remind us of our shared precarious biological condition. Artists include: Gottfried Helnwein, Kiki Smith, Diana Falchuk, James R. Southard, Drew Sellers, Cristin Millet and Chiharu Shiota.

An urban oasis — The California Palace of the Legion of Honor is San Francisco's most seductively situated museum From July 31-Nov. 28, the museum will present paintings, drawings and photographs by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. The exhibit, titled "The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein," looks at children as innocent, yet exploited.

Gottfried Helnwein, Roland Topor

A special emphasis has been placed on the acquisition of photography, with important works by Carleton Watkins, Lewis Carroll, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus and Gottfried Helnwein on display. (Gottfried Helnwein, William S. Burroughs 1990, 99 cm x 66 cm, silver print)

Das Linzer Kunstmuseum Lentos schmückt sich bereits für das Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009. Die sechs Räume der ständigen Ausstellung werden im Laufe dieses Jahres gemeinsam mit Künstlern neu gestaltet. Den Anfang machte der Linzer Maler und Filmemacher Dietmar Brehm. Er paarte „alte und neue Klassiker“ und wollte die „Provokateure“ der Kunst ihrer Zeit in den Mittelpunkt rückten. Zu seiner Auswahl zählen Werke von Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Helnwein, Günther Brus oder ihm selbst ebenso wie solche von Gustav Klimt

Konsequent und virtuos. Technische Meisterschaft und auch die Konsequenz einer packenden sozialkritischen Thematik offenbaren sich in dieser Ausstellung: Gewalt, Schmerz, Verletzung werden dargestellt. Den Körper ebenso wie die Psyche betreffend. Helnwein dokumentiert hier in Linz einen künstlerischen Reifegrad, der eine weitere Steigerung kaum vorstellbar macht. Seine Eingriffe sind von einer schmerzhaften Unmittelbarkeit, deren emotionale Energie weit über die großen Bildformate hinaus den Raum und sein Publikum ergreift. (Irene Judmayer - Oberösterreichische Nachrichten)

Warhol, Schiele, Helnwein, Rainer, Mel Ramos, Picasso, Bellmer, Janssen, Gütersloh, Hrdlicka...

(ots) - Am 17.5. 2007, 21:00 MESZ, eröffnet das Gottfried Helnwein Museum in Second Life. Damit betritt einer der bedeutendsten lebenden Künstler die virtuelle Welt in Second Life. Gottfried Helnwein nutzt damit eine Möglichkeit dieser Online-Welt, die es im echten Leben nicht gibt: Die Ausstellung seines gesamten Lebenswerks in einem einzigen Museum. Seine in mehr als 35 Jahren geschaffenen Arbeiten sind in vielen Museen und bedeutenden privaten Sammlungen in der ganzen Welt verstreut. Es wäre kaum möglich, sie in einem realen Museum für eine einzige Präsentation zusammenzubringen. Die Ausstellungsfläche des virtuellen Museums beträgt mehr als 80.000 qm. Das Museum und das Ausstellungskonzept sind von Gottfried Helnwein mitgestaltet worden.

Through the art of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Gottfried Helnwein, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Henri Cartier-Bresson and others, this exhibition of 268 objects captures Marilyn's rise to stardom. More than 80 artists depict the late movie star in styles ranging from fashion photography to Pop Art.

The tradition of the classical portrait (Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol) or socially critical portraits (Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Gottfried Helnwein or Santiago Sierra), new narrativity (Ilya Kabakov, Theresa Hubbard – Alexander Birchler), milieu studies (Tracey Moffatt, Andy Warhol, Taryn Simon, Santiago Sierra), gender and self-staging (Robert Mapplethorpe, Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince), urban and conceptual studies (Thomas Struth, Anatolij Shuravlev, Andreas Gursky, Ryuji Miyamoto), socio-political research (Jochen Gerz, Christian Boltanski, Sibylle Bergemann), contexts embracing several genres (Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Sigmar Polke, Mario Merz)...

Damien Hirst, Gottfried Helnwein, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Gerhard Richter, Paul McCarthy, Georg Baselitz, Hermann Nitsch, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gabriel Orozco, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Katrin Plavçak, Philip Taaffe, Elke Krystufek, Alfred Kubin, Siegfried Anzinger, David Bailey, Sam Francis.

Pop Art made Mickey and Donald into icons, and artists continue to be inspired by Disney’s legacy today. This section shows some thirty works based on Disney characters, created by a diverse group of modern and contemporary artists that includes Gary Baseman, Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Bertrand Lavier, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Saul and Andy Warhol.

Im Grazer Stadtmuseum wird in Kooperation mit dem Literaturhaus Graz bereits jetzt an einer groß angelegten Ausstellung über den Dichter gearbeitet, die im Februar 2007 eröffnet werden soll. Die Schau wird die Handschrift von Theaterregisseur Karl Welunschek tragen, der im Vorjahr auch die inhaltliche Neuausrichtung des Stadtmuseums mitorganisierte.