Donata Wenders

Donata Wenders with Campino at the Berlinale 2015

Donata Wenders (born June 20, 1965 in Berlin , née Donata Johanna Schmidt ) is a German photographer .

biography

Donata Wenders attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin and initially studied communication sciences with a focus on photography and camera at the Free University of Berlin . Between 1987 and 1989 she lived in Stuttgart, where she continued her film and photography studies and continued her education at the Freie Kunstakademie Stuttgart . She then worked as a camera assistant. Wenders has been working exclusively as an artistic photographer since 1995.

She prefers to take pictures of people. This mainly creates black and white photos.

Donata Wenders has accompanied numerous well-known personalities over a long period in order to portray them in documentary form, such as the writer Siri Hustvedt , the choreographer Pina Bausch , the artist Leiko Ikemura , the writer Peter Handke , the fashion designer Yōji Yamamoto and the photographer Peter Lindbergh . Through her husband Wim Wenders , Donata Wenders had the opportunity to record many artists during the filming. These include Die Toten Hosen , Milla Jovovich , Andie MacDowell , Buena Vista Social Club and BAP . During the shooting of the 3D feature film Every Thing Will Be Fine in 2015, Donata Wenders created the film installation James Reading - Reading James , consisting of photographs and film, which was shown in 2016 at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art in Bremen. Record covers for Sam Phillips and Die Toten Hosen were shaped by their photos, for example the away game and Nur zu Visiting . She also worked for 2raumwohnung , Wolfgang Niedecken and U2 .

Donata Wenders is a board member of the Wim Wenders Foundation in Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1997 Palazzo Ducale , Parma.
• 1999 Einstein Gallery , Unter den Linden, Berlin,
• 1999 Gallery of Contemporary Photography , Los Angeles
• 1999–2001 Buena Vista Social Club , traveling exhibition with works from the Buena Vista Social Club , Asia and South America
• 2000
  • Huis Marseille , Amsterdam
  • Teatro Della Visione , Milan
  • Gallery MC , Zweibrücken
  • Gallery Schirmer / Mosel , Munich
• 2002: Galleria Allessandra Bonomo , Rome
• 2003: Monika Mohr Gallery , Hamburg
• 2004: Galleria Ferragamo , Florence
• 2005: Bari , Bari , Italy
• 2005: Born in the 60ies , C / O Berlin
• 2006: Islands of Silence , Königsmünster Abbey , Meschede
• 2007: Heilig 1 , Gloriahalle , Düsseldorf
• 2007: Little Eternities , Monika Mohr Gallery , Hamburg
• 2009: Small ages. Photograph by Donata Wenders , Stadthaus Ulm
• 2014/2015: Silent Traces - Johanna Breede, Berlin
• 2015: Handmade Photography , Photowerk, Kommunale Galerie , Berlin
• 2015: Through Women's Eyes. From Diane Airbus to Letizia Battaglia , curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Casa dei Tre Oci , Venice
• 2015: Vanishing Point. Donata Wenders - Robert Bosiso , curated by Laura Schmidt, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Bozen
• 2015: Places of the Mind. Wim & Donata Wenders , Polka Gallery, Paris
• 2016: The space between the characters can carry the load , Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst , Bremen
• 2017: Donata Wenders. In the light of time , BTV FO.KU.S , Innsbruck
• 2018: Read time , Johanna Breede, Berlin
• 2018: Leiko Ikemura in dialogue with Donata and Wim Wenders , Brandenburger Tor Foundation / Max Liebermann Haus , Berlin.
• 2018: On Disappearance and Appearance - On the Ephemeral in Photography , Alfred Erhard Foundation , Berlin.
• 2018/2019: Donata Wenders. Gestures of Light , Atelier Jungwirth, Graz .
• 2019: Photographs by Donata Wenders , curated by Anna Duque y González , Neue Galerie Gladbeck , Gladbeck .

literature

• Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders: The time with Antonioni. Chronicle of a film. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-88661-162-0 .
• Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders: Buena Vista Social Club . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag , Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-88814-611-9 .
• Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders (Ed.): The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty. The Million Dollar Hotel - A Film Book. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88814-986-X .
• Lothar Schirmer (Ed.): Women see women. A picture history of women photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Inez van Lamsweerde. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88814-932-0 .
• Stefania Ricci (Ed.): Off Scene. Wim and Donata Wenders. Polistampa Editoriale, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-8304-764-8 .
• Peter Schwartzkopff (eds.): Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders: Don't Come Knocking . The book about the film. With photos by Wim and Donata Wenders, Schwartzkopff Buchwerke, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937738-39-8 .
• Ulf Meyer zu Küingdorf (Ed.): Donata. Islands of Silence. The Photography of Donata Wenders. Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, 2006. ISBN 978-3-7913-3655-8
• Laura Schmidt, Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders (eds.): Pina . The Film and the Dancers. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0623-3 .
• Martin Schleske : The sound. From the unheard of meaning in life. With photos by Donata Wenders, Kösel Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-22068-7 .
• Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Ed.): Through Women's Eyes: From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Marsilio Verlag, Venice 2015, ISBN 978-8831722810 .
• Peter Friese : Young Collections 03. This catalog appears on the occasion of the exhibition The space between people can support the ceiling. Ivo Wessel Collection, Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-946059-04-2 .
• Anna Duque y González de Durana , Laura Schmidt (eds.): Vanishing Point. Donata Wenders - Robert Bosisio . Bolzano 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053921-3 .

Web links

Commons : Donata Wenders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Donata Wenders in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Donata Wenders on kunstmarkt.com
• Donata Wenders on werkhallen.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Donata Wenders. Donate Wenders, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Friends: Donata Wenders. For me it was a great experience with the pants. Die Toten Hosen, May 2006, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Donata Wenders. Gallery f5,6, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Donata Wenders. Galerie Polka, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
5. ^ Young collections 03. Weserburg Museum of Modern Art , accessed on December 22, 2017 . 
6. ^ Wim & Donata Wenders. Galerie Polka, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Wim Wenders Foundation. Wim Wenders Foundation, accessed on December 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Institution Johanna Breede Photokunst - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Leiko Ikemura in dialogue with Donata and Wim Wenders. Brandenburg Gate Foundation , accessed on April 9, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Group exhibition with Donata Wenders. Alfred Ehrhard Foundation, accessed on November 22, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Donata Wenders, Styria today, ORF. Retrieved November 22, 2018 . 
12. ^ Photographs by Donata Wenders. Neue Galerie Gladbeck, accessed on August 26, 2019 .