FIGURES OF DESIRE: fantasies of identification, disguises or transformations, social roles in construction of gender and sexuality. ...

Die Ausstellung reflektiert Persönlichkeit und Werk des bedeutenden Grazer Dramatikers Wolfgang Bauer in Form einer simultanen Videoinstallation mit Erinnerungen seiner Freunde und Weggefährten, wie u. a. Gert Jonke, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Herbert Achternbusch, Max Droschl, Franz Ringel, Barbara Frischmuth, Gottfried Helnwein, Alfred Kolleritsch, Olga Neuwirth, Paulus Manker, Heribert Sasse, Ulrich Schulenburg, Heinz Sichrovsky, Peter Weibel, Heidi und Jack Bauer. ...

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The exhibit will explore the intersection of art, the body, and medical procedures, with the implicit fear of bodily pain (real or imagined) as a major theme. The human body is vulnerable and mortal, yet it is also the biological basis of human existence. "Body Anxious" includes works by artists from around the world, in, often, unconventional media, who examine the anxieties associated with medical procedures and instruments, and other experiences that remind us of our shared precarious biological condition.
Artists include: Gottfried Helnwein, Kiki Smith, Diana Falchuk, James R. Southard, Drew Sellers, Cristin Millet and Chiharu Shiota. ...

Gottfried Helnwein, Roland Topor ...

A special emphasis has been placed on the acquisition of photography, with important works by Carleton Watkins, Lewis Carroll, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus and Gottfried Helnwein on display.
(Gottfried Helnwein, William S. Burroughs 1990, 99 cm x 66 cm, silver print) ...

Das Linzer Kunstmuseum Lentos schmückt sich bereits für das Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009. Die sechs Räume der ständigen Ausstellung werden im Laufe dieses Jahres gemeinsam mit Künstlern neu gestaltet. Den Anfang machte der Linzer Maler und Filmemacher Dietmar Brehm. Er paarte „alte und neue Klassiker“ und wollte die „Provokateure“ der Kunst ihrer Zeit in den Mittelpunkt rückten. Zu seiner Auswahl zählen Werke von Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Helnwein, Günther Brus oder ihm selbst ebenso wie solche von Gustav Klimt ...

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.
(Julia Pascal, New Statesman, UK, "Nazi Dreaming", April 10, 2006) ...

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Warhol, Schiele, Helnwein, Rainer, Mel Ramos, Picasso, Bellmer, Janssen, Gütersloh, Hrdlicka... ...