2002
Helnwein works on a series of American landscapes, first work "Death Valley I" (Death Valley, California, 120x774 cm)
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2002
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and William S. Farish, American Ambassador to Great Britain, visit Gottfried Helnwein at his studio in Ireland
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2002
"Downtown" (The American paintings II), One man show at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco
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2002
Helnwein at the Lead White Gallery in Dublin, "VII" (seven), group show
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2002
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, „Portrait Obscured“
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2002
Henwein starts collaborating with Marilyn Manson on a several visual art projects
Beginning of the friendship with Marilyn Manson.
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2002
Nicolas Cage visits the studio and acquires several works of Helnwein, amongst them "Red Gun"
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2002
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, „Meisterwerke der Fotografie: Face to Face", Portraitfotografie aus der Sammlung der DG- Bank
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2002
"In the Blink of an Eye - Photo Art", (Augenblick - Foto Kunst), group show
Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg/Vienna
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2002
Sir Ben Kingsley visits Helnwein's studio in Los Angeles
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2002
Arnold Schwarzenegger visits Helnwein's studio in Los Angeles
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2002
Sean Penn visits Helnwein in his L.A, studio and invites him to join in a collaboration on video project, and becomes his collector.
He said in an interview: "Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it. A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this. This level of work is earned."

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2002
Helnwein opens his new studio in Los Angeles with a retrospective of his work
"The Los Angeles Times" writes about this event: "When Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein opened a show of his paintings recently, celebrities crowded his downtown studio. Leonardo DiCaprio rubbed Elbows with Marilyn Manson. Beck chatted with Kevin Smith. Mena Suvari stopped for a photo op, and Sean Penn lent his cool. "
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2002
Helnwein establishes a studio in downtown Los Angeles
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2001
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.
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2001
Painting - Austrian Artists now.
Albertina, Vienna and the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest
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