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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On the occasion of the exhibition "Mélancolie : génie et folie en Occident" at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, director Moritz Wullen states in the catalogue:.
"In einer fotografischen Inszenierung Gottfried Helnweins erhebt sich der Künstler, fäulnisschwarz und monumental wie das Mahnmal einer letzen Einsicht: 'So ist Verweiflung, diese Krankheit im Selbst, die Krankheit zum Tode. […]. Der Tod ist nicht das letzte der Krankheit, aber der Tod ist in einem fort das Letzte. Von dieser Krankheit erlöst zu werden durch den Tod ist eine Unmöglichkeit, denn die Krankheit und deren Qual und der Tod ist gerade, nicht sterben zu können.” ...

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Mexiko, „Austrian Contemporary Art and Post-War Painting - The Essl Collection“.
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At "Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag" (German Protestant Church Day), the annual convention of the German Protestant Church, Bishop Dr. Margot Käßmann referes in her opening sermon to the images of suffering children in the art of Gottfried Helnwein.
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December 21, Helnwein's first grandchild Croí Sequoia is born.
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Kunsthalle Wien und Kunstforum Wien - Superstars. Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst. Von Warhol bis Madonna.
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2004 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco organizes the first one-person exhibition of Gottfried Helnwein at an American Museum: "The Child, works by Gottfried Helnwein" at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
The show is seen by almost 130,000 visitors and the San Francisco Chronicle quotes it the most important exhibition of a contemporary artist in 2004. Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic, wrote: "Helnwein's large format, photo-realist images of children of various demeanors boldly probed the subconscious. Innocence, sexuality, victimization and haunting self-possession surge and flicker in Helnwein's unnerving work" ...

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Helnwein's exhibition at the Legion of Honor over two full pages..
Chronicle Art Critic Kennethy Baker writes "Dark and detached, the art of Gottfried helnwein demands a response..." and Carolyne Zinko "Vivid Images challenge Status Quo." ...

ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, „Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der ZKM-Sammlung“.

Helnwein meets Roman Polanski in Prag.
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Helnwein lectures at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
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Stage, light, video, costumes design for Robert Schuhmanns "Das Paradies und die Peri", Robert-Schuhmann-Festival, Düsseldorf, director and coreographer: Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie Berlin.

Robert-Schumann-Festival 2004