1970
Graduated from the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich, Germany
1963-1965
Studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg and Düsseldorf

2001
Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (School of Fine Arts), Hamburg, Germany
1995
Honorary Doctorate in divinity, Fribourg University, Switzerland
1993
Honorary Professor at the HFF (Academy of Film and Television), Munich, Germany
1991
Appointed Chairman and later President of the European Film Academy
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Award, Bielefeld, Germany
1989
Honorary Doctorate, Sorbonne, Paris, France
1984
Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2006
Wim Wenders- Immagini dal Pianeta Terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
Wim Wenders, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

2004
Wim Wenders, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Wim Wenders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Images of Time and Place, Contemporary Views of Landscape, (group exhibition) Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
Wim Wenders, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2003
Wim Wenders, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich, Switzerland
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Haunch of Venison, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2002
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2001
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

1996
Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary
Photography, Santa Monica, USA
Wim Wenders: Photos, in conjunction with the publication Wim Wenders:Photos, Munich: Goethe Institut (1996), Goethe Institutes worldwide

1995
Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, FNAC, Berlin, Germany; Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy

1994
Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy; FNAC, Paris, France; Parco, Tokyo, Japan
Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001)
Wim Wenders Photographs, Sala Parpallo Palau Dels Scala, Valencia, Spain; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian, Spain

1993
Wim Wenders Photographs, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

1992
Wim Wenders Photographs, Shibuya Seibu Dept. Store, Tokyo, Japan; Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan; Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany



1986-92
Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987), touring exhibition: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986); Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra (1987); Palazzo della Triennale di Milano (1988); Film Society of Miami (1988); Goethe Institut, Stockholm (1988); Goethe Institut, Copenhagen (1988); Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche (1990); Städtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg (Breisgau) (1992)

1989-94
Wim Wenders Photographs, touring exhibition: Galerie F. C Gundlach, Hamburg (1989); Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zürich (1990); Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich (1991); Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (1991); Shibuya Seibu Dept. Store, Tokyo (1992); Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto (1992); Musée de L.Elysée, Lausanne (1992); Amerika Haus, Berlin (1992); Venice Biennale (1993); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (1993); Sala Parpallo Palau Dels Scala, Valencia (1994); San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian (1994)

1993-95
Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001), touring exhibition: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (1993); Villa delle Rose, Bologna (1994); FNAC, Paris (1994); Parco, Tokyo (1994); FNAC, Berlin (1995); Villa Rufolo, Ravello (1995)

1996
Wim Wenders: Landscape and Memory, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica
Wim Wenders: Photos, in conjunction with the publication, Wim Wenders: Photos, Munich: Goethe Institut (1996), Goethe Institutes worldwide

2001-2003
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2002), Haunch of Venison, London (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003)

Filmography

Full-length fictional feature films directed by Wim Wenders:

1970 Summer in the City
1971 The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty
1972 The Scarlet Letter
1973 Alice in the Cities
1974 Wrong Move
1975 Kings of the Road
1977 The American Friend
1982 The State of Things
Hammett
1984 Paris, Texas
1987 Wings of Desire
1991 Until the End of the World
1993 Faraway, So Close!
1994 Lisbon Story
1995 Beyond the Clouds (with Michelangelo Antonioni)
1996 A Trick of the Light
1997 The End of Violence
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel