Donata Wenders: Spring/Summer News
Donata Wenders was born in Berlin in She studied Film and Theatre in Berlin and Stuttgart, worked as a camera assistant and made feature films and documentaries. Since she has devoted herself entirely to photography.
In Donata Wenders’ first photographic book Islands of Silence was published, this was followed by the artist book Vanishing Point. Donata Wenders - Robert Bosisio in and Leiko Ikemura in conversation with Donata and Wim Wenders in Over the years she has published further books together with her husband, Wim Wenders, such as PINA - The Film and the Dancers (), Don’t Come Knocking (), The Buena Vista Social Club (), The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty () and Beyond the Clouds/My Time with Antonioni (). Her photographs appear in international newspapers and magazines including Egoiste, BLAU Magazin, The New York Times, Vogue, W, Deutsch, The Rolling Stone, Kult, Esquire Pen and Let’s Panic as well as illustrating CD covers by Bono, Jon Hassell, Sam Phillips, BAP, ZweiRaumWohnung and Die Toten Hosen. Additionally, she is involved in her husband’s films as a set photographer.
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Born in in Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
&#; Photographs by Donata Wenders, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany
&#; Studie, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
&#; Gesture of life, Atelier Christian Jungwirt, Graz, Austria
&#; Leggendo il tempo, c2 contemporanea 2, Florence, Italy
&#; Im Licht der Zeit, S Innsbruck, Austria
&#; Places of the mind, Donata & Wim Wenders, Galerie Polka, Paris, France
&#; Vanishing Point, curated by Laura Schmidt, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy
&#; Silent Traces, Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin, Germany
&#; In the Snow, Werkhallen, Oberwinter-Remagen, Germany
&#; Photography, Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea
&#; Unsichtbar. Stimmen und Spuren, Schlossmediale, Werdenberg, Switzerland
&#; Photographie, Exhibition Space Céline and Heiner Bastian, Berlin, Germany
&#; Contemplation, Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany
&#; Sensualité et Grâce, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
&#; Absent Presence, Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Romania
&#; Kleine Ewigkeiten, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
&#; Kleine Ewigkeiten, Leica Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
&#; Leica Galerie, Solms, Germany
&#; Kleine Ewigkeiten, Photography
Donata Wenders
Interview & Photography by Mart Engelen
An in-depth conversation with Donata Wenders, renowned Berlin-based photographer, about life, inspiration, the extraordinary poetry in her work and her husband, Wim, that reveals how the approach and works of these two gifted artists complement each other as shown in this special issue of #59 Magazine.
Mart Engelen: You studied film and theatre in Berlin and Stuttgart and after that you worked on film productions as a camera assistant and as cinematographer but in you changed to photography. Why was that?
Donata Wenders: Well, when I worked as a young and passionate cinematographer, I was of course eager to find the most emotional light and the most beautiful frame for every scene. But I wasn’t happy with the amount of compromises I had to make on the film sets and suffered under the time pressure. I was rarely ever finished with the lighting I wanted to find, and I realised this stressful situation was not going to become any better; on the contrary, I always had to be faster and faster with the preparations for the next setup. Another aspect was that at the time I got to know a few other camer
Exhibitions at Galleria Doris Ghetta
Donata Wenders ( born , Berlin) lives and works in Berlin, Germany, with her husband Wim. She studied Film and Theatre in Berlin and Stuttgart and has worked on various film productions as a camera assistant and shot films as a cinematographer. Over the years she has expanded her photography from the movie set to a body using her own approach. Exploiting light, she draws an in-between space in which her portraits become ephemeral and delicate imprints. Full of dignity, they elude any immediate reification or temporality.
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, catalogue, Teodora Axente, Michele Bernardi, Robert Bosisio, Alin Bozbiciu, Rudy Cremonini, Aron Demetz, Julia Frank, Pavel Grosu, Sophie Hirsch, Arnold Holzknecht, Ingrid Hora, Valentýna Janů, Isabella Kohlhuber, Hubert Kostner, Philipp Messner, Walter Moroder, Pakui Hardware, Robert Pan, Thaddäus Salcher, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Peter Sandbichler, Karin Schmuck, Peter Senoner, Leonardo Silaghi, Martina Steckholzer, Barbara Tavella, Alexander Tinei, Sergiu Toma, Finbar Ward, Donata Wenders, , publication
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