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Wim Wenders Biography
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Born in Düsseldorf, Germany
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1963 - 1965 |
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Studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg and Düsseldorf
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1970 |
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Graduated from the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich, Germany
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1984 |
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Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
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1989 |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Award, Bielefeld, Germany
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1991 |
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Appointed Chairman and later President of the European Film Academy
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Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and Berlin, Germany
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2011
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Places, Strange and Quiet, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (solo)
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2010
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Places, Strange and Quiet, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo (solo)
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2009
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Journey to Onomichi, Heiner Bastian, Berlin (solo)
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2009
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Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
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2009
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Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
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2006
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Immagini dal Pianeta Terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2006
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (solo)
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2004
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Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (solo)
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2004
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James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
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2004
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Images of Time and Place, Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
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2004
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Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
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2004
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Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
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2003
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Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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2003
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Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Haunch of Venison, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
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2002
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Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
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2001
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Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
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1996
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Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
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1996
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Photos, in conjunction with the publication Wim Wenders:Photos, Munich: Goethe Institut (1996), Goethe Institutes worldwide (solo)
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1995
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Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, FNAC, Berlin, Germany; Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy (solo)
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1994
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Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy; FNAC, Paris, France; Parco, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1993
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Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001) (solo)
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1992
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Wim Wenders Photographs, Shibuya Seibu Dept. Store, Tokyo, Japan; Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan; Musée de L‟Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1992
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Written in the West, Städtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg (Breisgau), Germany
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1991
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Wim Wenders Photographs, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich, Germany; Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
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1990
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Written in the West, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, France
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1990
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Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
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1989
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Galerie F. C Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
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1988
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Written in the West, Palazzo della Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy; Film Society of Miami, Miami, Florida; Goethe Institut, Stockholm, Sweden; Goethe Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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1987
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Written in the West, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
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1987
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Written in the West, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel
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