Windee Winata

Windee Winata

Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

About Windee Winata

Visual artist longing for the unseen ------------------------------------ It began in Berlin, 1996. Excited about an upcoming trip to Egypt, Greece & Turkey, I bought my first film SLR. I was over the moon with 3 photos out of 14 rolls of films, hooked with photography, and decided to make the camera a permanent necklace. I took pictures of everything, read hundreds of photography books, messed up my apartment bathroom developing film negatives and prints, discussed and did photography things with friends, including some small exhibitions. Soon I neglected my automotive engineering study for two and a half years, and showed up at the university only to do my 20 hours a week job as a student researcher for a novel city vehicle project (growing up loving art & science, there's always been a back & forth between those two). One day I fell in love and wanted to marry my girlfriend. I thought it would be easier to ask for her parents' permission as an engineer than as a student (-wrong), so I went back to the university, quickly finished my study, and secured a job as development engineer at The Mercedes-Benz Technology Centre in Sindelfingen already before my final exam. It felt great. With the birth of our daughter, I immensely enjoyed having a new family, cool job, and riding around in an E-Class Mercedes. For a while photography took a back seat. Then came the point where we thought Bali with my family (and my wife’s family not far in Jakarta) would be a nicer place for our daughter to grow. So I turned my hobby into profession, and with my wife setup a wedding photography business. We had seemingly instant success, with happy clients and works published worldwide. Long story short, over a thousand clients and years later I began to suffer depression. Then I rediscovered doing personal work. Actually it felt more that I was found by photography again. I started doing fine art, and the sky turned bluer.

Education:

Automotive engineering, masters degree - Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Events:

March 2018: Food-Art pairing at Living Food Lab, Canggu - Bali

Exhibitions:

2017: Four Seasons Resort, Jimbaran - Bali
2018: Living Food Lab, Canggu - Bali
2018: The Oberoi, Seminyak - Bali