Donata Wenders, *Berlin, 1965
lives and works in Berlin

In the snow, 2010
silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 37,5 x 31,5 cm

Portrait of a painter, 2010
silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 37,5 x 31,5 cm

Red Shoes, 2009
silver gelatin print on baryta paper,, 58,5 x 76,8 cm

Entering Stage, 2000
silver gelatin print on baryta paper,, 62,8 x 50 cm

Contemplation, 2006
silver gelatin print on baryta paper,, 63 x 46,5 cm

Rising Though, 2014
silver gelatin print on baryta paper,, 63 x 46,5 cm

Ronit I, 2015
silver gelatin print on baryta paper,, 63 x 46,5 cm

link to artist's page

Selected Exhibitions      
FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria, 2017; Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin, Germany, 2015; Werkhallen, Remagen-Oberwinter und in Seoul, Corea, 2013; Galerie f5,6 in Munich. Germany, 2012; Polka Gallery, Paris, France, 2011; Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2009.           

Donata Wenders exhibits works of delicate elegance from a number of different series of black and white photographs, portraits of people in the iridescent light of snow flakes or details of faces and bodies between light and shade, as if wrapped in a veil. The images show people in moments of silence, concentration and reflection, one might say in moments of rest. The artist does not stage her images, but rather pursues them by identifying a specific instant in which the body briefly seems bereft of all the circumstances of time and space.