Auf der Suche nach dem Individuum: Der diesjährige Stuttgarter Fotosommer präsentiert Portraitfotografie aus der DG- Bank ...

"This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genious of arts finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are."
Marilyn Manson has collaborated with Gottfried helnwein for the album's artwork which is part of a greater series that will be published in a book and exhibited in museums across the world. ...

"High above Marlene Dietrich Blvd. in the city of Berlin, the sun smoldered below the concrete gutter sky like a cigarette burn in a stained bedsheet. We set forth to the Dome of Berlin at dusk and I felt like I was in my own painting, "The Death of Art." Helnwein and I created a living installation with two disabled nude women as families stopped their picnics to stare. Of course we documented this for future viewing. But it didn't begin there...
"Determined, I headed for the birthplace of Expressionism, humming "The Alabama Song," by Kurt Weill. It was time for The Grotesk Burlesk and dozens of mice scurried from the Kinderfeld. Their political organs had to be removed and we set them in formation, creating a metaphorical "question mark."
Marilyn Manson ...

ART!
April 12-June 8
Opening Reception Friday, April 11, 6-8 pm
An international survey of contemporary art based on comic book and cartoon imagery, including painting and sculpture, video, high and low-tech animation, "zines," fashion design, comic strips, and comic books. Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists, including: Gottfried Helnwein, Laylah Ali, Michel Bevilacqua, Blake Boyd, Enrique Chagoya, Michaell Ray Charles, Nicole Eisenman, Neil Farber, Chris Finley, Karen Finley, Arturo Herrera, Leslie Lew, Kerry James Marshall, Yoshitomo Nara, Walter Robinson, Al Souza, Kara Walker, and Sue Williams.. ...

Works on display include well-known pieces by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Allan Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon Gottfried Helnwein and Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as previously unseen works by Conny Holthusen, Antonio de Felipe, José de Guimares and Ernesto Tatafiore. ...

Vanessa Beecroft, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Ilse Haider, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Birgit Jürgenssen, Marie-Jo Lafontaine,Tracey Moffatt, Thomas Ruff, Shirin Neshat, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Lois Renner, Eva Schlegel, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, és Rosemarie Trockel
2003. március 14 – június 1. ...

Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history.
Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history. ...

In der Schau werden rund 120 zeitgenössische Fotografien von namhaften Künstlern vorgestellt, darunter Herlinde Koelbl, Nick Knight, Anton Corbijn und Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Art Direction: Gottfried Helnwein
Editing and primary director of photography:
Benjamin at the Barbarian Group
Second camera: Charles Koutris
Location: studio Helnwein, Los Angeles ...