- Denver Art Museum - Artists on Art: Gottfried Helnwein at the DAM
Artists on Art: Gottfried Helnwein at the DAM
Denver Art Museum
Thursday, December 13th, 6:30 pm
Artists on Art: From Any Angle Logan Lectures 2007 features lectures by ten contemporary artists.
- FACE IT - Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz - The exhibition reviews
Konsequent und virtuos. Technische Meisterschaft und auch die Konsequenz einer packenden sozialkritischen Thematik offenbaren sich in dieser Ausstellung: Gewalt, Schmerz, Verletzung werden dargestellt. Den Körper ebenso wie die Psyche betreffend. Helnwein dokumentiert hier in Linz einen künstlerischen Reifegrad, der eine weitere Steigerung kaum vorstellbar macht. Seine Eingriffe sind von einer schmerzhaften Unmittelbarkeit, deren emotionale Energie weit über die großen Bildformate hinaus den Raum und sein Publikum ergreift. (Irene Judmayer - Oberösterreichische Nachrichten)
- The Vicki and Kent Logan Collection - Donated Art works to Museums - Denver/Phoenix/San Francisco
Denver Art Museum - 197 artworks
Phoenix Art Museum - 13 artworks
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Arkansas Arts Center celebrates Gottfried Helnwein
- Wäinö Aaltosen Museo
Gottfried Helnwein, Retrospective
2.10.-22.11.1998
Wäinö Aaltosen museon syyskausi alkaa itävaltalaisen Gottfried Helnweinin (syntynyt 1948 Wienissä) näyttelyllä.
Esillä on 1900-luvun yleisen ja yksityisen historian kipupisteisiin porautuvia suurikokoisia maalauksia, valokuvia nykypäivän kulttuurin merkkihahmoista Andy Warholista Keith Richardsiin sekä piirustuksia, akvarelleja ja sekatekniikalla toteutettuja teoksia.
Helnweinin taide on levinnyt yleiseen tietoisuuteen mm. julisteiden muodossa. Hänet tunnetaan myös Life- ja Time-lehden kansikuvista. Helnwein käsittelee teoksissaan uskonnon ja yleisen moraalin vaikutusta lasten ja vähemmistöjen asemaan sekä esimerkiksi Itävallan ja Saksan natsimenneisyyttä ja sen aktiivista unohtamista. Ahdistava arvomaailma tulee esille niin hänen omakuvissaan kuin psykologisesti tarkoissa tutkielmissaankin.
- "Angels Sleeping", Gottfried Helnwein retrospective - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, 2008
The exhibition Angels Sleeping is a thematic cross-section, predominantly of the painting work of the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (born in Vienna in 1948). The five sections of the exhibition present the fundamental circuits of Helnwein’s work.
- Lentos Art Museum Linz
Gottfried Helnwein Retrospektive, 2006
- Helnwein's 'Epiphany I' at Denver Art Museum, 2014
- Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen - Gottfried Helnwein – Beautiful Children
Vom 19. Juni bis 2. Oktober 2005 zeigte die Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen mit den Kinderbildern das zentrale Thema des umstrittenen Künstlers. Und auch mit dieser Ausstellung überschritt Helnwein erneut Grenzen und polarisierte, indem er das Kind nicht als unschuldiges und liebenswertes, sondern als verletztes, entblößtes, gedemütigtes und misshandeltes Wesen darstellt.
- De Young Museum San Francisco - Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper
June 23, 2007 - October 7, 2007
De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Curator: Robert F. Johnson
- Arizona State University Art Museum
THE OTHER MAINSTREAM:
This is a selection of dynamic works from the collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, demonstrating their commitment to social and political issues and artists of color.
Although their collecting focuses on the contemporary, both well-known and emerging artists, selected historic pieces show the breadth of their interest and the roots of socially conscious work in the early 20th century. January 22 through April 23, 2005
- "SOUL" - Museum of Modern Art - Ostende (PMMK )
Installation 'Fall of the Angels', by Gottfried Helnwein, Curator Van den Bussche
- "In Limbo" - An exhibition of works from the Denver Art Museum
An exhibition of works from the Denver Art Museum’s fractional and promised gift of contemporary art from the collection of Vicki and Kent Logan.
- The Art of Gottfried Helnwein, by Robert Flynn Johnson,Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The art of Gottfried Helnwein cannot be properly considered without surveying the terrain of modern and contemporary art from which it developed. To understand Helnwein is not just to see what movements and artists he embraced and was influenced by, but also what he rejected. For Helnwein, creativity is not a vocation but a mission. His art is the visual equivalent of a contact sport. It not only has put Helnwein at odds with much of the history of post-war art, but also has positioned him in the forefront of the highly regarded confrontationalist movements of contemporary art so active in America and Europe today.
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art
AUSTRIAN CONTEMPORARY ART AND POST-WAR PAINTING: THE ESSL COLLECTION
Group Show
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey presents the exhibition Austrian Contemporary Art and Post-war Painting: The Essl Collection, a seminal encounter with the most commanding pictorial propositions engendered in the second half of the 2Oth century.
Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction...
- Angels sleeping - Gottfried Helnwein in the Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague, 2008
www.prague.net
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents, January 29 – April 24, 2011
- Mädchen in Uniform, Gottfried Helnweins neue Bilder im Museum Ludwig
Frankfurter Alklgemeine Zeitung
Andreas Platthaus
Feuilleton
14. September 2005
- The Helnwein Retrospective, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1997
Alexander Borovsky
Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
THE HELNWEIN PASSION
I'll never forget the sensation I had at the unveiling of Gottfried Helnwein's "Kindskopf" in the Russian Museum. And not just because this enormous canvas (six metres in height, four in breadth), well-known from reproductions, seemed to operate in a whole new way in the real, quasi-monumental space of the museum's "Concrete Hall", originally intended for the demonstration of gigantic sculptural compositions. I realised that I was looking at the inner content of this innovative picture from a whole new point of view.
- The Subversive Power of Art, by Klaus Honnef,Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Germany
Helnwein Monograph, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg,
Text by Klaus Honnef
Curator for Contemporary Art at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Helnwein - A Concept Artist before the Turn of the Millennium. Is it sheer coincidence that Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian artist, created a portrait of both the German and the American? Coincidence, that he captured Warhol as a disturbing spectre on photograph, but painted Beuys? And that he then photographed the painted portrait of Beuys in the hands of Arno Breker, Adolf Hitler's favourite sculptor? There are weighty reasons for considering Helnwein the legitimate heir to Beuys and Warhol.
- Selektion, Ninth of November Night, 1988Installation at Museum Ludwig, 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 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - 'It All Starts Again with a Mouse: Disney Recycled by Contemporary Art'
March 8, 2007 - June 24, 2007
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
Curator: Bruno Girveau, Head of Collections, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
- 'Melancholie - Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst', Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
February 17, 2006 - May 7, 2006
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
Moritz Wullen
Leiter des Referats für Ausstellungen der der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
- TORINO FOTOGRAFIA '89 - III Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia
19 OTTOBRE - 19 NOVEMBRE, PROMOTRICE DELLE BELLE ARTI
L'edizione, curata da Daniela Palazzoli, è ospitata alla Promotrice delle Belle Arti, e assume particolare importanza perché coincide con il 150° anniversario della nascita della fotografia. Precorrendo di gran lunga i tempi nel panorama culturale italiano, l'edizione afferma il valore artistico della fotografia, accostando alla sezione storica e moderna, una ricca sezione contemporanea dove vengono presentati i lavori, tra gli altri, di David Hockney, Clegg & Guttmann, Gottfried Hellnwein, nomi già affermati nel campo dell'arte.
- 'LIMBO' - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery School of Art and Art History, University of Denver
January 13, 2005
Victoria H. Myhren Gallery
School of Art and Art History, University of Denver
Gwen F. Chanzit
An exhibition of works from the Denver Art Museum’s fractional and promised gift of contemporary art from the collection of Vicki and Kent Logan.
Helnwein’s subject matter involves the complexities of the human condition. His disturbing yet provocative images of physically and emotionally wounded children have been seen as metaphors for larger global issues. He portrays the innocence of adolescence against the backdrop of shameful historical events like the Holocaust to highlight the fragility of humanity in an unstable world. Like Wong from Asia and Sherman from the United States, Helnwein offers up dramatic scenarios featuring youthful protagonists that beg a viewer to complete the equation. The child’s face – painted in a realistic style yet eerily unreal – may allude to the uncertain (in limbo-like) quality of Helnwein’s own childhood. Helnwein is among a network of contemporary artists expressing visions that embrace and also transcend cultural nomenclature.
- New Exhibition Surveys the Art of Gottfried Helnwein
Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents
On view January 29 through April 24, 2011
November 30, 2010 – Sacramento, Calif. – The Crocker Art Museum will present a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition "Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents," on view from January 29 through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker, the exhibition features 70 major paintings and photographs from throughout Helnwein's career. Highlights include his iconic portraits of performer Marilyn Manson, works from his major recurring theme, "The Child," and his most recent series, "Disasters of War." "Inferno of the Innocents" is the first museum exhibition to examine Helnwein—who has been based in Los Angeles part-time for nearly 10 years—as a California artist.
- RADAR - The Logan Collection - Denver Art Museum, Modern and Contemporary Art
Gottfried Helnwein's Epiphany (Adoration of the Magi) is a strange takeoff on a traditional New Testament theme in art. The work depicts a Madonnalike mother displaying her baby to attentive Nazi officers, Painted in hyperrealist grisaille with chiaroscuro effects, the work resembles an old documentary photograph made huge. The eerie, sinister overtones are unmistakable. Who is this mother? What do these officers want with her and her child? What kind of official paper might the officer on the left hold in his hand and what might be its result? Helnwein, characteristically, presents us with an ambiguous, haunting image and leaves us to wonder about its meaning... With its huge size, hyperrealist style, and disturbing content, this unsettling work bestows a psychological anxiety accompanied by a strong magnetic pull. Confronting it, we tend to stare-entranced by both its beauty and its seductive, malevolent overtones...
- San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, The Child - works by Gottfried Helnwein
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Summary of reviews and texts.
'Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.' Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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- The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection
September 1, 2000 - January 2, 2001
Third in a series of presentations from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection of contemporary art, this exhibition focuses on works that depict toys, cartoon characters and childhood fantasies observed from a child's perspective. While many of the images in the exhibition are normally associated with childhood happiness, others implicate issues of violence in society and cultural identity. While adults tend to associate toys with happiness and enjoyment, they also can be very unsettling. Dolls can teach stereotypical gender or cultural identities, as David Levinthal reveals with his Barbie doll photographs. Cartoon characters can appear monstrous. The holes piercing Joyce Pensato's Minnie Mouse and the looming presence of Gottfried Helnwein's Mickey Mouse, for instance, evoke the brutality of animated cartoons.
- Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN /THE EXHIBITION "BETWEEN INNOCENCE AND EVIL"
- Ludwig Museum Schloss OberhausenGottfried Helnwein – Beautiful Children
Vom 19. Juni bis 2. Oktober 2005 zeigte die Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen mit den Kinderbildern das zentrale Thema des umstrittenen Künstlers. Und auch mit dieser Ausstellung überschritt Helnwein erneut Grenzen und polarisierte, indem er das Kind nicht als unschuldiges und liebenswertes, sondern als verletztes, entblößtes, gedemütigtes und misshandeltes Wesen darstellt.
- Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen - Gottfried Helnwein - Beautiful Children
Das zentrale Thema der 100 zumeist großformatigen Bilder Helnweins ist das Kind – nicht als unschuldiges und liebenswertes, sondern als verletztes, entblößtes und, gedemütigtes und mißhandeltes Wesen. Monumental zeigen sie Kindergesichter mit ernstem Blick. Das Entsetzliche wird nicht gezeigt, es spielt sich im Kopf des Betrachters ab.
Helnwein zerstört die lieb gewordenen Klischees von der glücklichen Kindheit und macht den Betrachter zum Augenzeugen,
- THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND, CHILDHOOD IMAGERY FROM THE LOGAN COLLECTION - SF MOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Heather Whitmore Jain
Curatorial Associate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Helnwein's "Mickey I" at the SFMOMA
...Other works in the exhibition present the dark side of cartoon characters. The prevailing narrative structure of many cartoons is a cycle of one's character's unrelenting attacks on another. Yet the violence of these scenarios is subverted and humor achieved by the lack of any permanent injury to the victim and the gleeful nonchalance of the adversary even during the most aggressive assault. Static representations of wounded or menacing cartoon characters can expose the violence and eliminate the humorous punch line. In Gottfried Helnwein's painting Mickey (plate 24), Mickey Mouse's physical features, which usually contribute to his appeal become a thin veneer of looming attack. Blown up to a monster scale and rendered in an austere gray palette, Mickey's smile is deceptive.
- Albertina Museum, Vienna - 250 000 Visitors Saw the Helnwein-Retrospective 2013
The Helnwein retrospective was the most successful exhibition of a living artist in the history of the Albertina.
- HELNWEIN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA
July 24, 2013 - October 13, 2013
25. Mai 2013 - 13. Oktober 2013
Die Albertina widmet Gottfried Helnwein eine umfangreiche Retrospektive, die alle Stationen seines bisherigen Werdegangs abbildet. Helnwein, einer der bekanntesten österreichischen Künstler der Gegenwart, wurde durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von Kindern berühmt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Gewalt und Schmerz in seinen Arbeiten sorgte in der Vergangenheit immer wieder für Diskussionen.
curator:
Elsy Lahner
- Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Exhibitions and Collection
- Albertina Museum Vienna - Retrospektive Gottfried Helnwein, 2013
Gottfried Helnwein zählt international zu den bedeutendsten österreichischen Künstlern. Anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags widmet ihm eine umfassende Retrospektive.
Über 150 Arbeiten aus allen Werkphasen geben Einblick in Helnweins Schaffen, das von der Auseinandersetzung mit der Gesellschaft, deren Reiz- und Tabuthemen geprägt ist. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von verwundeten und bandagierten Kindern.
Selbst die Motive der amerikanischen Populärkultur wie Disney-Comicfiguren nehmen in Helnweins Bildern bedrohliche Formen an. Seine Selbstportraits zeigen den Künstler als Unterworfenen und Gefolterten - Schmerz, Verletzung und Gewalt sind wiederkehrende Motive in Gottfried Helnweins beunruhigenden und aufwühlenden Arbeiten.
- KEK Kunst. Gottfried Helnwein Retrospektive in der Albertina
Eine beeindruckende, emotional aufrührende, hervorragend kuratierte Ausstellung, die wohl jeden berührt.
- "Irish and Other Landscapes", Gottfried Helnwein, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 2004
- 'Presence and Time: Gottfried Helnwein's Pictures', Stella Rollig, Lentos Art Museum Linz,
"In memory of the children of Europe who have to die of cold and hunger this Xmas", was written on the draft of a poster in the winter of 1945 by the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka who emigrated to London. He had 5000 copies printed at his own cost and posted in underground stations. In late autumn 1988 the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, who emigrated to the Rhineland, mounted a series of five meter high photo prints with children's faces along a one hundred meter long wall between the cathedral of Cologne and the Museum Ludwig. He called the work Selection (Ninth November Night). It is a work of monstrous expression and painful effect. His title recalls the anniversary of the so-called Reichskristallnacht, through which Helnwein gives the children's portraits their almost overwhelmingly harrowing effect. As we were preparing his exhibition for the Lentos Art Museum together with Gottfried Helnwein, I was researching at the same time for a different project about Kokoschka. The story of the London posters was new to me. Unintentionally and unexpectedly the two artist lives blended into one another for a brief poignant moment. With a tremendous creative effort, ability to communicate, organizational experience, implementation energy and financial resources, both artists devoted themselves on a specific occasion to an appeal: Remember!
- Lentos Art Museum, Linz
Gottfried Helnwein, The Golden Age 1 (Marilyn Manson), 2003
- San Francisco Fine Arts Museum - The California Palace of the Legion of Honor
The exhibit, titled "The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein," looks at children as innocent, yet exploited.
- Galerie Rudolfinum - Gottfried Helnwein: Angels Sleeping, 2008
11. 6. 2008 – 31. 8. 2008, large gallery, Curator: Petr Nedoma
The exhibition Angels Sleeping is a thematic cross-section, predominantly of the painting work of the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (born in Vienna in 1948). The five sections of the exhibition present the fundamental circuits of Helnwein’s work. The introduction comprises heads – faces, including the artist’s iconic self-portrait, painfully acute metaphors of the limits on freedom of expression in Austria in the 1970s and 80s.