Wim Wenders

Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditionally Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. The Dutch name "Wim" is a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm". As a boy, Wenders took unaccompanied trips to Amsterdam to visit the Rijksmuseum. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (1963–64) and philosophy at the University of Dusseldorf (1964–65), but dropped out and moved to Paris in October 1966 in order to become a painter.{{cite web |title=Wim Wenders |url=http://www.polkagalerie.com/en/wim-wenders-biography.htm |website=polkagalerie.com |access-date=21 July 2020}} He failed his entry test at France's national film school, IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver at Johnny Friedlaender's studio in Montparnasse. During this time he became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

Set on making his obsession his life's work, he returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists. That fall, he entered the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Between 1967 and 1970, while at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic for FilmKritik, the Munich daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Twen magazine, and Der Spiegel.

Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a 16mm black-and-white film, Summer in the City (1970), his feature directorial debut.

Wenders's career began in the late 1960s, the New German Cinema era.{{Cite web |last=Dollar |first=Steve |date=29 November 2023 |title=Wim Wenders' new films explore the 'poetic medium' of 3-D and Tokyo toilets |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-11-29/wim-wenders-perfect-days-anselm-documentary-3d |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} Much of the distinctive cinematography in his movies is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller.{{Cite web|title=A Robby Müller Retrospective|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4100-a-robby-m-ller-retrospective|access-date=1 February 2021|website=The Criterion Collection|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Fox|first=Killian|date=22 June 2019|title=The private Polaroids of a celebrated cinematographer|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/22/private-polaroids-robby-muller-cinematographer-arles-like-sunlight-coming-through-clouds|access-date=1 February 2021|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web|title=Unseen Polaroids by Robby Müller: the legendary cinematographer and Wim Wenders collaborator|url=https://hero-magazine.com/article/151941/robby-muller-unseen-polaroids/|access-date=1 February 2021|website=HERO magazine|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=5 July 2018|title=Wim Wenders Pays Tribute to 'Paris, Texas' Cinematographer Robby Muller|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wim-wenders-pays-tribute-paris-texas-cinematographer-robby-muller-1125126|access-date=1 February 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en}} Wenders made his directorial film debut with Summer in the City (1970), his graduation project at the University of Television and Film Munich, which he attended from 1967 to 1970. Shot in 16 mm black-and-white by Müller, the movie exhibited many of Wenders's later trademark themes of aimless searching, running from invisible demons, and persistent wandering toward an indeterminate goal. Protagonist Hans (Zischler) is released from prison, and after searching through seedy West German streets and bars, he visits an old friend in Berlin.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Wenders then directed The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, titled The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick in the United States. The film was adapted from Peter Handke's 1970 short novel. He then directed the period drama The Scarlet Letter (1973), adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel of the same name. From 1974 to 1976 Wender directed the Road Movie trilogy. The first film in the trilogy was Alice in the Cities (1974), which was shot in 16mm. The last two films are The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976), the latter of which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

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In 1977 Wenders gained prominence for directing the neo-noir The American Friend, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. The film is adapted from the Patricia Highsmith 1974 novel Ripley's Game. J. Hoberman of The New York Times has compared the film to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, writing, "Like Taxi Driver, The American Friend was a new sort of movie-movie—sleekly brooding, voluptuously alienated and saturated with cinephilia."{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/movies/homevideo/wim-wenderss-the-american-friend.html|title= Wim Wenders's High Plains Grifter|website= The New York Times|date= 12 February 2016|access-date= 24 September 2023|last1= Hoberman|first1= J.}}

Wenders earned critical acclaim for his road drama Paris, Texas (1984), starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell. The film premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of the film, "[it's] a movie with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common fifteen years ago than it is now. It has more links with films like Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy than with the slick arcade games that are the box-office winners of the 1980s. It is true, deep, and brilliant".{{Cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paris-texas-1984 |title=Paris, Texas |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1 January 1984 |access-date=6 July 2017 |website=RogerEbert.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709062934/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paris-texas-1984 |archive-date=9 July 2014 |url-status=live}}

Wenders then directed the romance fantasy Wings of Desire (1987), starring Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk. It premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where Wenders won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. Peter Handke co-wrote the screenplay. West Germany submitted Wings of Desire for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a bid supported by its distribution company. It was not nominated; the academy seldom recognized West German cinema.{{cite web |url=http://cinema.usc.edu/assets/101/16163.pdf |last=Dickinson |first=Robert |title=The Unbearable Weight of Winning: Garci's Trilogy of Melancholy and the Foreign Language Oscar |work=Spectator |page=13 |via=University of Southern California |access-date=2 July 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126053423/https://cinema.usc.edu/assets/101/16163.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2010}} The film was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, with many critics adding it on their top 10 lists.

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In 1991 Wenders directed the science fiction adventure drama Until the End of the World, starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Max Von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau. The film has been released in several editions, ranging in length from 158 to 287 minutes, with the longer versions receiving mixed reviews. In 1993 he directed Faraway, So Close!, a sequel to Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk reprised their roles as angels who have become human. The film also stars Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe and Heinz Rühmann, in his last film role. It received critical acclaim, premiering at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it earned the Grand Prix. The next year, he directed Lisbon Story, which screened at Un Certain Regard at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995 he directed both A Trick of Light and the anthology film Lumière and Company.

In 1997, Wenders directed the American drama film The End of Violence, starring Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, and Gabriel Byrne. The film received negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office after its debut at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Like many other of Wenders's American movies, it was shot in multiple locations, including the Griffith Observatory and the Santa Monica Pier. Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, including Willie Nelson at the Teatro, a documentary about the recording sessions of Teatro (1998). The next year he directed Buena Vista Social Club, about the music of Cuba. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2002, he directed a documentary about the German rock group BAP called {{lang|ksh|Vill passiert}} (A lot has happened).

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Wenders has directed music videos for groups such as U2 and Talking Heads, including "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and "Sax and Violins".{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} His television commercials include a UK advertisement for Carling Premier Canadian beer.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Wenders's book Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written as a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatized by Neil Cargill.

Wenders also directed a documentary-style film on the Skladanowsky brothers, known in English as A Trick of the Light.{{IMDb title|0113151|A Trick of the Light}} The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing "moving pictures" when several others like the Lumière brothers and William Friese-Greene were doing the same. In 2011, Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.german-info.com/press_shownews.php?pid=3312 |title=German Information Centre South Asia | Facebook |publisher=German-info.com |date=8 March 2015 |access-date=17 March 2015}}[http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/03/what_wim_wenders_may_be_planni.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003818/http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/03/what_wim_wenders_may_be_planni.html|date=3 December 2013}} The project fell through when he insisted on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.[http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/04/breaking_bayreuth_loses_its_ne.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001446/http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/04/breaking_bayreuth_loses_its_ne.html|date=3 December 2013}} In 2012, while promoting his 3-D dance film Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture.[http://blog.documentarychannel.com/post/14625054063/interview-wim-wenders-on-pina-and-why-3d-is-the] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205012745/http://blog.documentarychannel.com/post/14625054063/interview-wim-wenders-on-pina-and-why-3d-is-the|date=5 December 2012}} He also said he would only work in 3-D from then on.{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/12/23/its-3d-or-bust-for-pina-director-wim-wenders/ |title=It's 3D or Bust for 'Pina' Director Wim Wenders – Speakeasy – WSJ |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=23 December 2011 |access-date=17 March 2015}} Wenders had admired the dance choreographer Pina Bausch since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145123337/wim-wenders-on-pina-a-dance-documentary-in-3-d|title=Wim Wenders On 'Pina': A Dance Documentary in 3-D |publisher=NPR |access-date=24 January 2018}}

In 2015, Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders – Visions on Film. Porter died before it was finished, and the film remains incomplete.{{cite web |url=http://www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com/#!a-b-o-u-t/cfp1 |title= Wim Wenders Film Festival|website=www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222153705/http://www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com/ |archive-date=22 December 2015}}{{Cite web |last= |date=12 March 2015 |title=Wim Wenders keeps looking for new canvases |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-wim-wenders-20150312-story.html |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} Wenders is a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation. The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aims to find and reconstruct world cinema films that have been neglected. As of 2015 he served as a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmaka.com/profile_jury_favfilms.php?profile_id=5684 |title=Profile Jury |publisher=Filmaka.com |date=14 August 1945 |access-date=17 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710215013/http://www.filmaka.com/profile_jury_favfilms.php?profile_id=5684 |archive-date=10 July 2009 |url-status=dead}}

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In June 2017, Wenders stage-directed Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles, starring Olga Peretyatko and Francesco Demuro and conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper). In a 2018 interview, he said his favorite movie of all time was his film about Pope Francis, and that his entire career had been building up to it. His admiration for Francis is profound; he said he felt Francis is doing his best in a world full of calamities. He also said that, though raised Catholic, he had converted to Protestantism years earlier.{{cite episode |title=Amanpour: Joseph Yun and Wim Wenders |series=Amanpour on PBS |date=23 May 2018 |network=PBS |last=Amanpour |first=Christiane (host)}}

In 2019 Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary A Black Jesus, which has similar themes to Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. The film explores the role of religion in communal identity and how this can create or dissolve differences in a small Sicilian town during the height of the refugee crisis.{{Cite web|title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} A BLACK JESUS|url=https://roadmovies.com/film/a-black-jesus-working-title/|access-date=9 October 2020|website=roadmovies.com}} Lucchesi noted that Wenders pushed the film to be more symbolic and philosophical, saying that Wenders wanted the film to have a "universal fairy-tale aspect" and to represent "Europe in a nutshell".{{Cite web|last=Cunningham|first=Nick|title=Cannes Marché: Tale of A Black Jesus – Business Doc Europe|date=23 June 2020 |url=https://businessdoceurope.com/cannes-marche-tale-of-a-black-jesus/|access-date=9 October 2020|language=en-US}}

In 2025, Wenders made a short film called "The Keys to Freedom" in Reims, France. In the film, Wenders tours the Museum of the Surrender, where General Eisenhower gave the liberated city's keys to the mayor in 1945, and comments "These are the keys to the freedom of the world". Wenders told the New York Times that Europeans can no longer assume American protection, adding that young people take freedom for granted, not realizing they may soon need to defend it.{{cite web |last=Erlanger |first=Steven |date=2025-05-05 |title=Wim Wenders on Where the War in Europe Really Ended 80 Years Ago |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/movies/wim-wenders-the-keys-to-freedom.html |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=The New York Times}}

Wenders has worked with photographic images of desolate landscapes and themes of memory, time, loss, nostalgia and movement. He began his long-running project "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" in the early 1980s and pursued it for 20 years. The initial photographic series was titled "Written in the West" and was produced while Wenders criss-crossed the American West in preparation for his film Paris, Texas (1984). It became the starting point for a nomadic journey across the globe, including Germany, Australia, Cuba, Israel and Japan, to take photographs capturing the essence of a moment, place or space.{{cite web |last=Rose |first=Barbara |url=http://brooklynrail.org/2004/01/artseen/wim-wenders-pictures-from-the-surface-of-the-earth |title=Wim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=1 January 2004 |access-date=17 March 2015}}

Wenders lives and works in Berlin with his wife, Donata. He has lived in Berlin since the mid-1970s.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/23/wim-wenders-berlin-changed-cathedrals-of-culture-wings-of-desire |title=Wim Wenders on his Berlin: 'Oh man, has it ever changed!' |last=Michael |first=Chris |date=23 September 2014 |work=The Guardian |access-date=9 November 2019 |issn=0261-3077}} He is an ecumenical Christian; as a teenager he wished to become a Catholic priest.{{cite web |last=Burger |first=John |title=Exclusive interview: Wim Wenders discusses the Catholic influences on his film about Pope Francis |url=https://aleteia.org/2018/05/17/wim-wenders-discusses-the-catholic-influences-on-his-film-about-pope-francis/ |website=Aleteia |publisher=Aleteia SAS |access-date=13 December 2019 |date=17 May 2018}} He supports German football club Borussia Dortmund.{{cite web |url=https://2amfilms.co.uk/showreels/wim-wenders-showreel/ |title=Wim Wenders Showreel (please do not edit) |website=2AM Films |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017182315/https://2amfilms.co.uk/showreels/wim-wenders-showreel/}}

In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely" and argued that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door to "actions of which no-one can know the effects."{{Cite web |date=4 June 2012 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski – SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604100742/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2012 |access-date=20 April 2022 |website=archive.ph}}{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=29 September 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=12 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=28 June 2019}}

From 1979 to 1981, Wenders was married to the American actress and singer-songwriter Ronee Blakley.

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Wenders has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1995, and the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 2005. The Wim Wenders Foundation was established in Düsseldorf in 2012. It provides a framework to bring together his cinematic, photographic, artistic and literary works in his native country and make them permanently accessible to the public.{{cite web |url=http://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/the-foundation/ |title=The Foundation – Wim Wenders Stiftung |website=Wim Wenders Stiftung |access-date=23 June 2017}} In 2016, he received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland.{{Cite web |title=Kulturpreise • Der Award der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland |url=https://www.sks-rheinland.de/kulturpreise/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland}}

1986–1992

• Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987){{Cite web |date=1988 |title=The Photographic memory |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000079179 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=unesdoc.unesco.org}}

1993–1995

• Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001)

2004

• Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Australia and Japan, James Cohan Gallery, New York{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders - Pictures from the Surface of the Earth: Australia and Japan - Exhibitions - James Cohan |url=https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/wim-wenders2/selected-works?view=thumbnails |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.jamescohan.com |language=en}}
• Between The Lines, group exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York{{Cite web |title=Between The Lines - - Exhibitions - James Cohan |url=https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/between-the-lines |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.jamescohan.com |language=en}}

2006

• Wim Wenders: Immagini dal pianeta terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy{{Cite web |title=German director Wim Wenders and his wife Donata attend the opening of... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/german-director-wim-wenders-and-his-wife-donata-attend-the-news-photo/1230248451 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Getty Images |date=21 December 2020 |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |title=Wenders: photographer of landscapes |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2006/07/19/wenders-photographer-of-landscapes.html |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.domusweb.it |language=en-gb}}
• Journey to Onomichi – Photos by Wim and Donata Wenders,{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders' world: through his lens |website=Independent.co.uk |date=12 August 2015 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/wim-wenders-world-through-his-lens-10451406.html}} Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan{{Citation |last=Oshima |first=Toshihiro |title="Journey to Onomichi" |date=9 May 2006 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyoshima/143771297/ |access-date=17 January 2024}}

2011

• Places, strange and quiet, Haunch of Venison, London, UK{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders' photos of strange and quiet places |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/22/uk.wim.wenders.photography/index.html |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.cnn.com |language=en}}

2012

• Places Strange and Quiet, Ostlicht. Galerie Für Fotografie, Vienna, AT{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders: Places, Strange and Quiet {{!}} OstLicht |url=https://www.ostlicht.org/places-strange-and-quiet-wim-wenders |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.ostlicht.org |language=en}}
• Places, strange and quiet, Harald Falckenberg Exhibition Space, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE{{Cite web |title=Deichtorhallen Hamburg |url=https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/ausstellung/wim-wenders-places-strange-and-quiet |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.deichtorhallen.de |language=de-DE}}
• Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth,{{cite web |title=Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth |url=http://mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/pictures-from-the-surface-of-the-earth/ |publisher=Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow}} Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RU

2014

• Wim Wenders: Places Strange & Quiet, GL Strand, Copenhagen, DK
• Wim Wenders: Urban Solitude, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, IT{{Cite web |date=22 June 2014 |title=Urban Solitude. Fotografie di Wim Wenders |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/cultura/2014/06/22/news/urban_solitude_fotografie_di_wim_wenders-6416566/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}

2015

• Wim Wenders: America, Villa e collezione la Panza, Varese, IT{{cite web |last=Italiano |first=FAI – Fondo Ambiente |title=Wenders in mostra a Villa Panza con il FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano |url=http://www.wimwendersvillapanza.it |access-date=23 June 2017 |website=wimwendersvillapanza.it}}
• "In broad daylight even the sounds shine. Wim Wenders scouting in Portugal", curated by Anna Duque y González and Laura Schmidt Reservatório da Mãe d'Água das Amoreiras, Lisbon{{Cite web |title=EPAL – Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres, SA |url=http://www.epal.pt/EPAL/menu/museu-da-%C3%A1gua/atividades-e-servi%C3%A7os/exposi%C3%A7%C3%B5es-tempor%C3%A1rias |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027214212/http://www.epal.pt/EPAL/menu/museu-da-%C3%A1gua/atividades-e-servi%C3%A7os/exposi%C3%A7%C3%B5es-tempor%C3%A1rias |archive-date=27 October 2016 |access-date=27 February 2022}}

2016

• "The Space Between the Characters Can Carry the Load", Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum for modern Art, Bremen, DE

2017/2018

• "Instant Stories/Wim Wenders' Polaroids", The Photographers' Gallery, London, from 20 October 2017 to 11 February 2018.{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} Artist {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/wim-wenders-hon-ra |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}

2019

• (E)motion{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} (E)motion : Wim Wenders |url=https://www.wim-wenders.com/event/9512-2/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=www.wim-wenders.com}}

2020

• Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper{{Cite web |title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER. A Road Movies 3D film by Wim Wenders |url=https://roadmovies.com/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-edward-hopper-a-road-movies-3d-film-by-wim-wenders/#:~:text=TWO%20OR%20THREE%20THINGS%20I%20KNOW%20ABOUT%20EDWARD%20HOPPER%20is,aspects%20of%20his%20unique%20work. |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=roadmovies.com}}

2022

• Presence,{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} "présence" The art of Claudine Drai, a 3D installation by Wim Wenders |url=https://www.wim-wenders.com/presence-the-art-of-claudine-drai-a-3d-installation-by-wim-wenders/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=www.wim-wenders.com}} with Claudine Drai

• {{citation |last1=Lindbergh |first1=Peter |author-link=Peter Lindbergh |first2=Wim |last2=Wenders |title=Peter Lindbergh: stories |year=2002 |location=Santa Fe |publisher=Arena Editions |isbn=978-1-892041-64-7}}
• {{citation |last1=Shepard |first1=Sam |author-link=Sam Shepard |first2=Wim |last2=Wenders |title=Paris, Texas: Screenplay |year=1991 |location=New York |publisher=Ecco Press |isbn=978-0-88001-266-9}}
• {{citation |last1=Steinhilber |first1=Berthold |last2=Wenders |first2=Wim |title=Ghost towns of the American West |year=2003 |location=New York |publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc. |isbn=978-0-8109-4508-1}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Emotion pictures: Essays und Filmkritiken, 1968–1984 |year=1986 |place=Frankfurt |publisher=Verlag der Autoren |isbn=978-3-88661-078-5}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Emotion pictures: reflections on cinema |year=1989 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-15271-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/emotionpicturesr00wend}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Once: pictures and stories |year=2001 |location=New York |publisher=DAP/Schirmer/Mosel |isbn=978-1-891024-25-2}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Paris, Texas |year=1984 |place=Nördlingen |publisher=Greno |isbn=978-3-921568-11-8}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Written in the West |year=2001 |location=New York |publisher=teNeues |isbn=978-3-8238-5469-2}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Handke |first2=Peter |author2-link=Peter Handke |title=Der Himmel über Berlin: Ein Filmbuch von Wim Wenders und Peter Handke |year=1998 |location=Berlin |language=de |publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag |isbn=978-3-518-02406-5}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |author2-link=Michael Hofmann |title=The logic of images: essays and conversations |year=1992 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-16517-9}}
• {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=The Act of Seeing:Essays and Conversations |year=1997 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571178-43-8}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |title=My time with Antonioni: the diary of an extraordinary experience |year=2000 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-20076-4}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |title=On film: essays and conversations |year=2001 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-20718-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/onfilmessaysconv00wend}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Tawada |first2=Yoko |author2-link=Yoko Tawada |title=Where Europe begins |year=2007 |location=New York |publisher=New Directions Publishers |isbn=978-0-8112-1702-6}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Wenders |first2=Donata |title=The heart is a sleeping Beauty: the Million Dollar Hotel - a film book |year=2000 |location=New York |publisher=teNeues |isbn=978-3-8238-5468-5}}
• {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Zournazi |first2=Mary |url=http://inventing-peace.com/ |title=Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception |year=2013 |location=London |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=978-1-78076-693-5}}

• BlainSouthern
• James Cohan Gallery
• Jerusalem 2111

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• {{cite web | title=Rede: Abendessen zu Ehren von Wim Wenders | website=Der Bundespräsident | date=22 September 2022 | url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/Reden/2022/09/220915-Wim-Wenders-Praemium-Imperiale.html | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Der Bundespräsident | 2022}} | access-date=1 December 2022}}

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• {{IMDb name|id=0000694|name=Wim Wenders}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090923172804/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/wenders.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071109164957/http://www.filmportal.de/df/bb/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,EFC0CAA3F03B03C1E03053D50B372D46,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html filmportal.de] including biography, filmography and photos
• [https://www.theguardian.com/film/wim-wenders Wim Wenders] at The Guardian

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class