Gottfried Helnwein | ARTIST | Exhibitions | INSTALLATION "NINTH OF NOVEMBER NIGHT" BETWEEN THE LUDWIG MUSEUM AND THE DOME OF COLOGNE

It was to our good fortune that Gottfried Helnwein also strove to break away from the museum and gallery sector in order to communicate with a larger public. This appeared on a grand scale on the site between the cathedral and Museum Ludwig, and at a time of "photokina", with its hundreds of thousands of visitors. The 100 metre picture wall did not fail to hit its mark: it induced bewilderment as well as aggressiveness. After a few days numerous pictures had been slashed, one even stolen. Gottfried Helnwein saw the exhibition as a process which would continue and be reflected in later presentations. The pictures were not renewed, but patched up, so that this reminder of the persecution of Jewish people would bear the traces of a lack of insight and understanding in the present day. ...

The lane of pictures between Ludwig Museum and the Dome of Cologne is one hundred meters long. Each panel is 4 meters high. There are thousands of people daily passing by the rear platform of the cathedral and by far the majority of them, only accustomed to the language of billboard-advertising, are baffled, indignant and shocked at the pale children’s faces, printed on large sheets of vinyl. The city council and museums of Cologne receive dozens of calls daily, finding themselves forced into a position of explanation and justification.
The Installation had barely been set up, when the first damage occurred: At night the large-sized child portraits, which had been made to appear distorted and old by the use of makeup, were slashed with knives; one picture was stolen. ...

The exhibition Passage(s) was presented by the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), a non profit organization founded in 1983 in order to present various activities in the visual arts: exhibitions, conferences and special events.
The Portrait
The photographic representation of people, whether as models or as subjects, is a theme of a group of works whose treatment foils in a way the conventional act of recognition. Such is the strategy of German artist Gotfried Helnwein. ...

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	09. November 1988 Ludwig Museum, Cologne INSTALLATION "NINTH OF NOVEMBER NIGHT" BETWEEN THE LUDWIG MUSEUM AND THE DOME OF COLOGNE Museum Ludwig, Cologne, September 17. - November 3. 1988 ...


	09. November 1988 GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Ninth November Night, Catalogue Reinhold Mißelbeck Curator for Photography and new media, Museum Ludwig cologne NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT It was to our good fortune that Gottfried Helnwein also strove to break away from the museum and gallery sector in order to communicate with a larger public. This appeared on a grand scale on the site between the cathedral and Museum Ludwig, and at a time of "photokina", with its hundreds of thousands of visitors. The 100 metre picture wall did not fail to hit its mark: it induced bewilderment as well as aggressiveness. After a few days numerous pictures had been slashed, one even stolen. Gottfried Helnwein saw the exhibition as a process which would continue and be reflected in later presentations. The pictures were not renewed, but patched up, so that this reminder of the persecution of Jewish people would bear the traces of a lack of insight and understanding in the present day. ... Gottfried Helnwein, INSTALLATION, "NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT", AT THE MUSEUM LUDWIG, cologne


	11. October 1988 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Roland Mischke ÄFFLINGE UND TSCHANDALEN Helnwein-Installation between Cologne Cathedral and Ludwig Museum The lane of pictures between Ludwig Museum and the Dome of Cologne is one hundred meters long. Each panel is 4 meters high. There are thousands of people daily passing by the rear platform of the cathedral and by far the majority of them, only accustomed to the language of billboard-advertising, are baffled, indignant and shocked at the pale children’s faces, printed on large sheets of vinyl. The city council and museums of Cologne receive dozens of calls daily, finding themselves forced into a position of explanation and justification. The Installation had barely been set up, when the first damage occurred: At night the large-sized child portraits, which had been made to appear distorted and old by the use of makeup, were slashed with knives; one picture was stolen. ... Gottfried Helnwein, "Ninth November Night", Installation between Ludwig Museum and the Dome of Cologne.


	10. April 1988 Kunstverein Siegen Villa Waldrich ONE MAN SHOW


	24. March 1988 - 28. April 1988 Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal, (CIAC) Eleanor London Public Library, Art Gallery Quebec, Canada, "PASSAGE(S)" Fonds d'oeuvres du CIAC The exhibition Passage(s) was presented by the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), a non profit organization founded in 1983 in order to present various activities in the visual arts: exhibitions, conferences and special events. The Portrait The photographic representation of people, whether as models or as subjects, is a theme of a group of works whose treatment foils in a way the conventional act of recognition. Such is the strategy of German artist Gotfried Helnwein. ...


	1988 Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Moscow Russia “KRIEG UND FRIEDEN” Group show


	1988 Eremitage, Leningrad Russia “KRIEG UND FRIEDEN” (War and Peace) Group show


	1988 Friedman-Guinness Galerie Heidelberg ONE MAN SHOW


	1988 Victoria and Albert Museum London “SELECTION 4” Polaroid Art of the last ten years group-show


	18. September 1987 - 13. December 1987 musee d' ixelles Bruxelles Europalia 87 Austria REALISME ET REALISMES EN AUTRICHE Austrian artists, group show