NEWSHelnwein

Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland

One man show at the Butler House and Installation in the city of Kilkenny at the annual Arts Festival, with large digital prints of children's faces and monochromatic blue scenes at the facades of houses in the medieval town center "Ephiphany I", 8x12m (25x36 feet), on the wall of Kilkenny Castle.

Painting - Austrian Artists now.

Albertina, Vienna and the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest

Albertina, Wien und Museum der Bildenden Künste, Budapest, „Austrian Artists now“

"Between Earth and Heaven, New Classical Movements in the Art of Today"

Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium. Installation "Fall of the Angels", digital print, 7X10m.

Stage design and costumes for Strawinsky's "Rake's progress" at the State Opera in Hamburg (Hamburgische Staatsoper)

Director: Jurgen Flimm, coductor: Ingo Metzmacher

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented Helnwein's painting "Mouse I" (1995, oil and acrylic on canvas, 210 cm x 310 cm) at the exhibition The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection..

Alicia Miller commented on Helnwein's work in Artweek: "...For children, not understanding what really to be afraid of, these dreams portend some pain and disturbance lurking into the landscape. Perhaps nothing in the exhibition exemplifies this better than Gottfried Helnwein's 'Mickey'. His portrait of Disney's favorite mouse occupies an entire wall of the gallery; rendered from an oblique angle, his jaunty, ingenuous visage looks somehow sneaky and suspicious. His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer. This is Mickey as Mr. Hyde, his hidden other self now disturbingly revealed.

One-man show at Robert Sandelson Gallery, London.