He shows The Quintet of the Astonished, his first work on the passion theme, at a collective exhibition entitled Encounters: New Art from Old at the National Gallery in London. He holds his first exhibition at a gallery in New York, the James Cohan Gallery, including his first work for digital flat-screens and plasma screens, with the first presentation of his Passions series. He inaugurates The World of Appearances commissioned by Helaba Bank, the first permanent work of art to be installed in the lobby of the Main Tower in Frankfurt.