1995 Group exhibition at Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen: "Versuche zu trauern" ("Trying to Mourne").
master pieces from the Ludwig Collection from antiquity to the present day.

Michael Jackson quotes some of Helnwein's art-works in the "History"album.
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Installation "Ninth November Night - Selektion" in Berlin, Kulturbrauerei..

Installation of a picture of a monochromic blue face of 25x16 metres (75x50 feet) in Vienna on a building in the city centre.

"It's only Rock and Roll", Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona.
Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, Illinois
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland

"Faces" one-man show, Houston Centre for Photography..
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1994 "Faces" one-man show in the Centre International Contemporain d'Art in Montreal..

Helnwein meets Martin Kippenberger in Cologne.
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One man show - Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Koblenz.

Helnwein meets Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles.
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Helnwein travels with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley to Budapest.
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Helnwein works on the "Fire"- series.
a series of dark monochrome paintings with the faces of Arthur Rimbaud, Jim Morrison, Malcolm X, Mishima, Mayakovski, Rosa Luxemburg, Ulrike Meinhof and others.

One-man show in the Städtisches Museum, Schleswig.

"Das Jahrzehnt der Malerei" (The Decade of Painting).
Austrian Artists of the Schömer Collection, Vienna
in the Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany.

Helnwein works intensively on the development of new artistic techniques.
He creates new mixed-media techniques by developing, changing, altering and combining various images on the computer and painting them finally with different media on canvas, (usally: oil, acrylic and ink-jet)

1993 One-man show "Faces" at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.
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Helnwein meets James Brown in Germany, who sits for a portrait photo-session .
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One man-show at the Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie.

"Faces", one-man show in the Munich Stadtmuseum.

"Aktion-Reaktion" (Action-Reaction) exhibition of the Austrian painters Rainer, Nitsch, Brus, and Helnwein, works from the Schömer collection, at the Foundation Fiecht, Austria.