Selektion - Neunter November Nacht
Helnwein erected this 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.
Ninth November Night has been shown at the following locations:
Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010
Philadelphia, 2008
Marmorpalast des Russischen Museums in St. Petersburg, 1997
Museum of Fine Art, Otaru, Japan, 1996
Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 1996
Ludwig Museum Schloss Oberhausen, 1995
Museum St. Ingbert, Albert Weisgerber Stiftung, Saarbrücken,
1993
Zentrum von Heilbronn, 1992
Musee' De L' Elysee Lausanne, 1990
Zwischen Museum Ludwig und dem Kölner Dom, 1988
Ninth November Night, 2010,
Installation,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Ninth November Night, 2010, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ninth November Night, 2010, Installation, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selection - Ninth of November Night, 1988,
scanachrome on vinyl,
Installation,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Selection - Ninth of November Night, 1988, scanachrome on
vinyl, Installation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
"Helnwein - Die Stille
der Unschuld" (Helnwein, the Silence of the Innocence)
Claudia Schmid, Deutschland 2009, 116 Min.
Helnwein talks about is Installation Ninth November Night