Augenblick und Endlichkeit
11/27/1999
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Augenblick und Endlichkeit
The Gruber Collection, Cologne
Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert
Die Ausstellung präsentiert vierzig ausgewählte Statements großer Photographen des 20.Jahrhunderts: von Cartier-Bresson, Lebeck, Chargesheimer bis zu Klauke und Helnwein wird jeweils eine bedeutende künstlerische Position gezeigt. Die Ausstellung konzentriert sich nicht auf das Einzelbild, sondern komponiert ganze Werkgruppen zu großformatigen Tableaus und unterstreicht so den "journalistischen Aspekt" in der Photographie dieses Jahrhunderts. Einen Abschluß findet dieser Jahrhundertrückblick in drei künstlerischen Positionen, die in sehr persönlicher Weise Stellung zur gesellschaftlichen Situation beziehen: Jürgen Klaukes "Self Performance" (1972/73), Philip Pococks Berliner Szenen (1982) sowie Gottfried Helnweins "Poems" (1998).

Essai : la photo n’est rien, sa reproduction est tout - ou le retour du photoréalisme
08/07/1999
www.arte-tv.com
Essai : la photo n’est rien, sa reproduction est tout - ou le retour du photoréalisme
Chuck Close, Gottfried Helnwein, Jason Brooks
Une peinture photoréaliste demande un mois de travail, voire une année. Parfois, la toile n’est que la copie d’une photo. Jason Brooks, un Britannique de 31 ans, s’est récemment vu décerner pour l’une de ses œuvres l’un des prix artistiques les plus convoités de Grande-Bretagne. Par ailleurs, Londres accueille en ce moment une rétrospective consacrée à l’Américain Chuck Close. Il est considéré comme l’un des fondateurs du photoréalisme, au même titre que Gottfried Helnwein qui expose actuellement dans une église gothique à Krems en Autriche. Serait-ce le come-back du photoréalisme ? Comment se fait-il que cette technique, qui a connu son âge d’or dans les années 70, fascine aujourd’hui les jeunes artistes ? Pourquoi ces tableaux interpellent-ils davantage le spectateur que les clichés d’origine ? METROPOLIS a rencontré Gottfried Helnwein et Jason Brooks à Londres et s’est entretenu avec eux de leurs motivations, des techniques employées et de l’avenir de ce mouvement.

07/28/1999
DER SPIEGEL online
ICH MÖCHTE NICHTS MEHR SEHEN
Christoph Dallach
Interview mit Lou Reed
Reed: ...Ich muss jetzt los. Sie haben mich noch nicht nach meinen Lieblingsfotografen gefragt. kulturSPIEGEL: Also ? Reed: Nan Goldin, Anton Corbijn, Cindy Sherman. Und Gottfried Helnwein. Ich liebe Gottfried Helnwein.

Ein Künstler von Weltformat
06/16/1999
News Magazin
Ein Künstler von Weltformat
Manfred Deix
artist, poet
Die Hymne des Freundes
Ich schätze Helnweins unendliche zeichnerische Qualität, seinen enormen künstlerischen Witz. Vom malerischen Können muß man gar nicht reden, da ist er Weltklasse. Außerdem ist Helnwein ein überaus intelligenter und unruhiger Geist. Seine Übermalungsexperimente sind hochklassig: Luxusbilder, Weltkunst.

Fall of the Angels
06/13/1999
Museum of Lower Austria
Fall of the Angels
Center-piece of the "Apokalypse"- Installation at the Dominican Church, Krems

APOKALYPSE
06/13/1999
Museum of Lower Austria
APOKALYPSE
Helnwein Installation and one-man show
Helnwein In the Dominican church, Krems Museum of Lower Austria Catalogue HELNWEIN APOKALYPSE Museum of Lower Austria Text by Peter Zawrel Chief Curator, Lower Austria County Museum of Art

Poet HC Artmann at the opening of the "Apokalypse"-show
06/13/1999
Museum of Lower Austria
Poet HC Artmann at the opening of the "Apokalypse"-show

Elisabeth Gehrer, Austrian Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs opens Helnwein's "Apokalypse" show
06/13/1999
"Apokalypse" Installation and one-man show
Elisabeth Gehrer, Austrian Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs opens Helnwein's "Apokalypse" show

Preparation for the "Apokalypse"-Show
06/01/1999
Museum of Lower Austria
Preparation for the "Apokalypse"-Show

03/01/1999
"Art is not a mirror to reflect the world but a hammer with which to shape it."
-Mayakovsky

Innovation / Imagination
02/01/1999
The Ansel Adams Center for Photography
Innovation / Imagination
50 Years of Polaroid Photography
February 1999 - on tour till 2001 started at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco catalogue: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, ISBN 0-8109-4358-1

HELNWEIN APOKALYPSE
01/01/1999
Museum of Lower Austria
HELNWEIN APOKALYPSE
Peter Zawrel
Chief Curator, Lower Austria County Museum of Art
Installation and one-man show In the Dominican church, Krems
catalogue essay by Wolfgang Bauer

Electroshock
01/01/1999
project @ the mint
Electroshock
Ireland
A Theatre of Cruelty Season
Project Arts Centre

The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum
acquires "Epiphany II"
01/01/1999
The San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum acquires "Epiphany II"
"Epihany" III (Adoration of the Shepards) 1998, 210 x 310 cm, 83 x 122 Inch (Oil and acrylix on canvas)

01/01/1999
lakota-village-fundraising
Helnwein supports the Lakota Village Project
Famous artists such as Paul McCartney, Gottfried Helnwein, Klaus Voormann, Otto Waalkes, and Peter Maffay act as fund raisers for the Lakota Village Project.
Supporters of »lakota-village-fundraising« are: Paul McCartney, Peter Maffay, Gottfried Helnwein, Merril Lynch Investment Bank, BMW, Yahoo, Apple Records and many others.

Art of the 20th Century
12/01/1998
Taschen
Art of the 20th Century
Ruhrberg, Schneckenburger, Fricke, Honnef
Edited by Ingo F. Walter
Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography
Old photographic techniques are currently inspiring artists again while others are experimenting with new techniques: amongst the latter are William Wegman, Gottfried Helnwein, Toto Frima, Bernhard Faucon, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Anke Erlenhoff and Candida Höfer.

"Choice"
11/14/1998
Exit Art
"Choice"
The Choice, was an exhibition that identified unknown and emerging artists through the viewpoint of leading contemporary artists. We invited an international group of artists to engage their own curatorial ideas. In the role of curator, these artists had been asked to present the work of artists they have followed or whose work has affected them in a personal way. Curator/Artists Ida Applebroog: Jane Higgins, Saeri Kiritani, Lisa Petsu Lagunes Nicole Eisenman: Alison Kelly, Maria E. Piñeres, Suzanne Wright Robert Gober: Jonathon Hexner Antony Gormley: Ignassi Aballi, John Patrick Clayman Gottfried Helnwein: Iris Andraschek, Danielle Kraay Damien Hirst: Rachel Howard Cindy Sherman: Charles Clough, Susan Jennings, David Krueger, Gail Le Boff Laurie Simmons: Helen Rousakis, Pedro Barbeito Kiki Smith: Joey Kötting Sam Taylor-Wood: Georgie Hopton

One-man show at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
10/02/1998
Helnwein- retrospective in Finland
One-man show at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
"I ask, I do not answer." - My works are questions, not answers, says the Austrian, Gottfried Helnwein, time and time again focusing on the most sore points of contemporary, general and private history. The retrospective exhibition of this controversial artist was opened yesterday in Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art and is open until 22nd of November. Helnwein says he became an artist because, being born after the war, he had so many questions to ask. He also stresses that the same questions must be asked again and again. "I, as probably every artist does, have only one theme which I incessantly vary. The use of diverse techniques is but a means of getting closer to one's original goals."

THE POWER OF IMAGES AND EVIL
10/01/1998
Abo Underrätteiser, Finland
THE POWER OF IMAGES AND EVIL
The child has grown into a world famous artist. But he has carried his questions with him. Today opens a large retrospective exhibition of Helnwein's art in Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku. The exhibition contains aquarels, oil paintings, drawings and photographs. They have often caused controversies by dealing with subjects that are all too sensitive.

German Band's Fierce Songs are Taking the U.S. by Storm
08/21/1998
The Wall Street Journal
German Band's Fierce Songs are Taking the U.S. by Storm
GREG STEINMETZ and PATRICK M. REILLY
The "Sehnsucht" cover, designed by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, shows ashen-faced band members bound, poked and disfigured by painful looking clamps and wires. The band's publicity photos are just as grisly.

Cover for RAMMSTEIN, "Stripped"
07/27/1998
Berlin
Cover for RAMMSTEIN, "Stripped"
The drawing "First Love" on the cover of the new RAMMS+EIN single "Stripped".
CD cover:Gottfried Helnwein, "First Love", 1993, colored pencil on paper (P)© 1998 Motor Music GmbH, Hamburg CD 044 141-2 released in Europe: 27th of July 1998 music & lyrics by Martin Lee Gore (Depeche Mode) Cover painted by Gottfried Helnwein

Foto-Session with Rammstein
07/05/1998
Schloss Burgbrohl
Foto-Session with Rammstein

The San Francisco Beat
07/01/1998
ART NEWS
The San Francisco Beat
by Penelope Rowlands
Logan, a 53-year-old investment banker, leads a tour of his house in the Marin County town of Tiburon, perched above the San Francisco Bay. The eclectically furnished, art-packed living room sets the tone. On one side of the room, Untitled (Venus/The Great Circle) by Jean-Michel Basquiat hangs catercorner to David Park's brooding canvas The Bathers. Across the way, Andy Warhol's Double Jackie faces off against The Room, a whimsical Philip Guston. There's a ravishing, newly purchased early Hockney, Seated Woman Being Served Tea, in the dining room, and looming above a stairwell is Gottfried Helnwein's powerful Untitled (Child).

Ron Wood: Meine Stones
06/01/1998
NEWS, Wien.
Ron Wood: Meine Stones
Th. Zeidler
Die Ausstellung. Rolling Stones Gitarrist Ron Wood werkt seit Jahren auch als Maler. Ab 13. Juli stellt er seine Arbeiten in Wien aus. Woods nennt den Österreicher Gottfried Helnwein als Vorbild: "Helnwein hat über die Jahre einen einzigartigen Stil entwickelt und gilt heute als einer der Grössten der Welt. Sein grandioses Jagger-Bild aus den Achzigern gilt noch heute als legendär."