Helnwein moves into a new bigger studio in downtown Los Angeles.
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I WAS A CHILD - Solo Show at Friedman Benda, New York.
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Double Installation "48 Portraits" Gottfried Helnwein and Gerhard Richter at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague.
Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - group exhibition Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague ...

The installation "Ninth November Night" presented in Israel.
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For the Israeli Opera Gottfried Helnwein creates a breathtaking and revolutionary new visual realization for the play "The Child Dreams"by Hanoch Levin.
One of the most important productions of the Israeli Opera's 25th anniversary season is the world premiere of the opera The Child Dreams, based on the most poetic and lyric play by the late Hanoch Levin, Israel's greatest playwright. ...

2009 Friedman Benda Gallery New York represents Gottfried Helnwein .
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Helnwein meets Anja Franziska Plaschg.
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"Helnwein - The Silence of Innocence", a Film by Claudia Schmid has been selected for screening at the 24th International Munich Documentary Film Festival.
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Gottfried Helnwein receives the Steiger Art Award.
The Steiger Award honours personalities for directness, openness, humanitarianism and tolerance.
Further prize winners this year were Sir Bob Geldof (music), Maximilian Schell (life’s work), former president of Germany Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog (tolerance), Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxemburg (charity), Veronica Ferres (film), Sir David Frost (media), former prime minister of Italy Romano Prodi and former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasinewski (Europe).
Dr. Antje Vollmer, former speaker of parliament, gave the laudation for Gottfried Helnwein . ...

2008 "Angels Sleeping" Gottfried Helnwein retrospective at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague.
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Albertina Wien: Kunst nach 70.
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Filming for a documentary about Gottfried Helnwein at at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the art of Gottfried Helnwein. ...

"The Last Child" - Installation throughout the City of Waterford, Ireland.
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The Sunday Times: "Bloodied but unbowed", - Helnwein's art deals in public trauma, says Gerry McCarthy, September 14, 2008.
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Los Angeles Times: "Gottfried Helnwein - Dark Inspiration", Lynell George, January, 27, 2008.
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"I Walk Alone" Helnwein one man show at the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University.
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Anlässlich des Inzestfalles von Amstetten im April 2008, der weltweit für Aufregung sorgt, schreibt die Sueddeutsche Zeitung:.
"Das Verlies von Amstetten berührt auch etwas im Innersten der Österreicher, ihre dunkle Seite, die sich spiegelt in den Gedichten ihrer Autoren. Und in den Bildern von Gottfried Helnwein, wo Menschen zu sehen sind, denen Gabeln in die Augen gedrückt werden. Oder Mädchen, denen das Blut die Beine herunterläuft. Helnweins Bilder sind Albträume, sie handeln von Verliesen in den Köpfen... ...

Helnwein designs stage and costumes for "Der Ring des Nibelungen" part II, "Siegfried" and "Die Götterdämmerung".
Choreographisches Theater Johann Kresnik, Oper Bonn. ...

2007 Helnwein shows his "Disasters of War" series of paintings (In memory of Francisco de Goya II) at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco..
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger receives Helnwein at the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Together they inspect the hanging of Helnwein's Landscape "Death Valley" (2002 - 2006, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 774cm, 48 x 296 inches) in the Governor's Council Room. ...