The artist erected this art-installation originally in fall 1988 in the city of Cologne in Germany, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the pogrom-night of November 9, 1938. The Installation was placed between the Cologne Cathedral and the Ludwig Museum, alongside the railroad track of the central station. It was entirely financed by the artist.
A hundred meter long wall of pictures with large images of children's faces, in a seemingly endless row, as if made to line up to be "selected". With the faces of christian, jewish and handicapped children, that lived in Germany in 1988.
In the second night after the opening, unknown people cut all the throats of the children on the pictures.
For the first time this memorial is now presented in Israel and for that occasion the artist included faces of children living in Israel in 2010. ...

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מיצב של האמן גוטפריד הלנוויין, לזכר "ליל הבדולח", 1938, אשר מוצב בפעם הראשונה בישראל. המיצב הוקם לראשונה בסתיו 1988, לרגל ציון 50 שנה לפוגרום ליל הבדולח, שנערך ב-9 בנובמבר 1938, והוצב בין הקתדרלה של קלן ומוזיאון לודוויג, לצד מסילת הברזל של תחנת הרכבת של קלן. אורכו של המיצב היה 100 מטר, והוא הורכב מתמונות גדולות של פני ילדים, כשורה בלתי נגמרת, והם כמו עומדים בשורת סלקציה. במיצב המקורי צולמו פניהם של ילדים נוצרים,יהודים ונכים, שחיו בגרמניה בשנת 1988. בלילה השני אחרי פתיחת המיצב לקהל, אנונימים חתכו ...

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, undoubtedly, one of Israel's greatest playwrights.
With his stage design, costumes, make-up and videos, Gottfried Helnwein created a breathtaking and revolutionary new visual realization for that play. Together with director Omri Nitzan he developed a new conception for the adaption as an opera . Composed is the opera by Israeli composer Gil Shohat, and David Stern, the Israeli Opera's music director, is conducting this new opera featuring closed to 20 Israeli opera singers on the stage.
Helnwein also included dancer and choreographer Gregor Seyffert who is in charge of the choreography. ...

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"In a very poetic way [Hanoch Levin] describes the world we live in," says Helnwein, "with the child as metaphor for innocence, purity, confronted with the corrupt adult world. The adult characters, even the mother and father, are all archetypes; the child doesn't understand this world. With complete trust, he thinks that the bond between himself and his mother is unbreakable, but, of course, it's broken…
A huge picture-wall of a sleeping child, through which the soldiers break, is the first of four amazing sets, culminating in a "universe of dead children in an infinity of space." ...

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Friedman Benda is pleased to announce its representation of the Austrian born artist Gottfried Helnwein. The artist’s first New York solo exhibition opens September 17th featuring a singular painting and two documentary films, an installation that calls to mind live performance. A second exhibition presenting a new body of work, currently in progress, will open at Friedman Benda in May 2010. ...

Some 100 works now displayed in a permanent exhibition trace the historical progression from Impressionism to Modernism. The artists range from the French masters Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne, to Pablo Picasso. Important works by Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Sam Francis lead to the second half of the 20th century presenting Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Gottfried Helnwein and others. ...

Eindrucksvolle Bilder aus seinem Buch "Faces" sind von Helnwein zu sehen: Er streicht hier "virile Fantasien" aus der Perspektive des Modells hevor: So inszeniert er in drei Fotos Keith Richards im Prozess des Zigaretten-Anzündens, daneben blickt Michael Jackson traurig und unzugänglich in die Kamera. Effektvolle Betrachtungsweisen ergeben sich durch die Hängung, die einerseits H.C. Artmann und Clint Eastwood einander gegenüberstellt oder der krasse Widerspruch zwischen einem fröhlichen Elton John und dem von seiner Nazi-Verstrickung gezeichneten Bildhauer und Architekten Arno Breker. ...

Gottfried Helnwein, Chuck Close, Marie Jo Lafontaine, Jannis Kounnellis, Helmuth Newton, Erwin Wurm, John Coplans, Elke Krystufek. ...

I've walked into Modernism, and I can't seem to leave. A young girl of perhaps 9 or 10 is the central figure in a riveting series, called The Murmur of the Innocents by renowned artist Gottfried Helnwein. She is large-eyed and blond-haired, with a gravity that belies her years, both mesmerizing and painful to look at. I make the rounds of the gallery with the rest of the visitors, each of us transfixed. First she looks directly at us, then she's lost in her own sadness, oblivious to our stares. Around the next corner, she's sullen, then defiant, then helpless in a blindfold; finally she's bloody and bandaged, and we don't know why. I finally tear myself away, but she stays with me, along with the questions I cannot voice. ...

Vorführung: 13.11.2009 im Rahmen des Festivals ...

June 7, 2009, 12:00 im Cinenova Arthouse- Center
Herbrandstr. 31 in 50825 Cologne Ehrenfeld ...

Premiere:
SO 10.05. | 14.00 | Pinakothek der Moderne, Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium
MI 13.5. um 17:00 Gasteig Vortragsaal ...

Earlier this week, it emerged that controversial Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein will unveil a tribute to Michael Jackson at the event. The artist, photographer and installation and performance artist, who was a friend of the singer, will reportedly show larger than life portraits of children and paintings of Jackson himself. Helnwein collaborated with Jackson several times and the singer used a Helnwein painting of wounded children for the booklet for his 1995 album Save "HIStory”. The Vienna-born artist has in the past caused controversy and public outrage with his work, much of which focuses on children and the Holocaust. ...

Wenige berührende Momente. Was von der Gala übrig blieb? Einige denkwürdige Momente. Die verstörende Installation Helnweins etwa, deren Bilder traumatisierter, verletzter und getöteter Kinder manchem Zuschauer die dunklen Seiten von Jacksons Geschichte in Erinnerung riefen. ...

ÖSTERREICH: Welche Erinnerungen nehmen Sie jetzt aus Wien mit?
MacDowell: Fantastisch war das Treffen mit Gottfried Helnwein und die Albertina-Ausstellung. ...