2006 "Face it!" One man show at Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz.
The Helnwein exhibition sets a museum visitor record. Stella Rollig, the director, states: "If anyone from Austrian Fine Art of the last fifty years could be called a star, then there is only one person who meets all the criteria: Gottfried Helnwein" ...

Julia Pascal writes on April 10 in the New Statesman (UK), under the title:"Nazi Dreaming", about the "Face it"-show:.
"Gottfried Helnwein's latest exhibition, "Face It", is the artist's first show in his native Austria since 1985. A retrospective of 40 works from the 1970s to the present, it is more shocking than the Royal Academy's infamous "Sensation" of 1997. Helnwein aims to disturb not with, say, an elephant-dung Madonna, as Chris Ofili did then, but with a far more controversial Virgin. Of all his paintings, the most disturbing is Epiphany (1996), for which he dips into our collective memory of Christianity's most famous birth. This Austrian Catholic Nativity scene has no magi bearing gifts. Madonna and child are encircled by five respectful Waffen SS officers palpably in awe of the idealised, kitsch-blonde Virgin. The Christ toddler, who stands on Mary's lap, stares defiantly out of the canvas. Helnwein's baby Jesus is Adolf Hitler." ...

The Lentos Museum of Modern Art and publisher Christian Brandstätter release the monograph "Gottfried helnwein - Face it!".
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Denver Art Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art - "Radar", the Logan Collection.
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"The Provocateur" - The Austrian National Television produces a 45 minute long documentary on Gottfried Helnwein.
The film is shown on German, Austrian and Swiss Television, channel 3Sat ...

Helnwein's "American Prayer" at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris.
"Il était une fois Walt Disney" is an exhibition that examines Art in relation to Walt Disney. The sources of inspiration for the Disney studios and Disney Recycled by Contemporary Art.
Curator Bruno Girveau states: "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, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. As French painter Robert Combas said in 1977, “Mickey is no longer Walt’s property, he belongs to us all.” ...

Helnwein shows his "Los Caprichos" series of paintings (In memory of Francisco de Goya) at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.
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Stage and costumes for "Der Ring des Nibelungen" Part I, Rheingold und Walküre, for the Bonn Opera.
Choreographer: Johann Kresnik ...

The council of the city of Philadelphia honors Gottfried Helnwein for his artistic contributions in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive..
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The Eleventh International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, Houston - "Artists responding to Violence" - One man show Mackey Gallery.

Set and costumes for the first Israeli production of Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, Tel Aviv.
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2005 "Beautiful Children" One man show at Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen and Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover.
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New Works.
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Marilyn Manson marries Dita Von Teese at Helnwein's castle in Ireland. .
Gottfried Helnwein is best man and Hamish Bowles reports exclusively about this event in VOGUE, March 2006. ...

Collaboration with Maximilian Schell on "Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss for the Los Angeles Opera .
Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times writes: "Gottfried Helnwein's wondrous staging of "Der Rosenkavalier" is eccentric and anachronistic — yet utterly faithful to its spirit. The thing you should know about this "Rosenkavalier" is that it is terrific. Helnwein's vision of "Rosenkavalier" is monochromatic and a riot of color. It is updated but couldn't be more 18th century. And none of those opposites contradicts." ...

Helnwein installation for the exhibition "Soul" at the Museum of Modern Art - Ostend.
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"Ninth November Night" - The documentary on Helnwein's works commemorating the Reichskristallnacht - is shown at the Akademy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Beverly Hills, California.
The film, NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT by Henning Lohner, was considered by the Academy’s Documentary Screening Committee to be one of the outstanding documentaries of 2004. ...

Helnwein collaborates with Manson on film- and art-project "Phantasmagoria".
The Visions Of Lewis Carroll, consists of four short films, followed by a feature length film.
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Together with Marilyn Manson, Helnwein is a founding member of the "Celebretarian Corporation".
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Helnwein is a founding member of the Italien "Armonia" Foundation of Arts..
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