Photo session with Chuck Close in New York.

1998 One-man show at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland.

Rober Crumb writes to his San Francisco art dealer Martin Muller, regarding Helnwein's Art: "Helnwein is a very fine artist and one sick motherfucker.".

2nd Foto session with Rammstein at Schloss Burgbrohl.
The infamous "Tape-session". ...

Collector Fritz Gruber donates the "Poems"- Installation to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
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Collector Fritz Gruber donates the "Poems"- Installation to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne

One-man show at Modernism Gallery, San Francisco.

"Götter, Helden und Idole" ("Gods, Heros und Idols"), Ludwig Institut Schloss Oberhausen, Germany.
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1997 Retrospective at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg,.
The collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig donate 53 works of Helnwein to the Museum Ludwig in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg ...

Gottfried Helnwein, 1997 Retrospective at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Brian Eno attends the opening of the Helnwein retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
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"Die Hamletmaschine" by Heiner Müller.
Version by Gert Hof and Gottfried Helnwein, with Les Tambours du Bronx and Caspar Brötzmann
47th Berliner Festwochen, Arena, Berlin and Muffathalle, Munich

The New York Times writes about Kent Logan, one of Americas leading collectors of contemporary art: "He amasses his art in true corporate fashion: with flow charts mapping what he has and what he doesn't. Hs most extensive acquisitions include Francesco Clemente's "Self-Portrait" (1984), Mark Tansey's "Occupation" (1984), Cindy Sherman's "Film Still #6" (1977), Gottfried Helnwein's "Untitled (Child)" (1996) and Anselm Kiefer's "Operation Sea Lion" (1975)." ...

Photo-session with the German industrial metal band Rammstein at Schloss Burgbrohl.
Rammstein's album "Sehnsucht (album)" is released with six different covers by Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Helnwein's painting "Dresden" at the Opening group show of the Ludwig Museum in the National Chinese Museum of Fine Art, Beijing..

Helnwein moves with his family to Ireland..
At first he lives in Dublin and in 1998 he acquires a castle in County Tipperary where lives and works since then. ...

1996 Helnwein works on the photo-series "Poems".
a series of photographic pictures of people who have died a violent death
He photographs the photographs of dead people and again and again photographs the photographs of the photographs ultimately to the point of dissolution. ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photography selected from the museum collection. group show.

Helnwein starts the painting cycle "Epiphany".
"Epihany I" first exhibitied at Modernism Gallery San Francisco ...

Collectors and founders of many museums, Peter and Irene Ludwig, pay several visits to Helnwein's studio at Schloss Burgbrohl.
They acquire over 100 works of art from Helnwein, amogst them "Head of a Child" (Kindskopf), "48 Portraits and Dresden, and comission Helnwein to paint their portraits for the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg. ...

Set and costumes for "Pasolini" at the Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg;.
directed by Hans Kresnik. ...

One-man show in the Fine Arts Museum, Otaru, Japan. Installation "Neunter November Nacht".
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