Donna Volta Newmen is a visual artist whose work merges traditional intaglio printing with interdisciplinary methods across paper and film. Focusing on portraiture, she explores themes of identity, power, and historical memory, highlighting overlooked figures such as marginalized artists, inventors,...
Read MoreDonna Volta Newmen is a visual artist whose work merges traditional intaglio printing with interdisciplinary methods across paper and film. Focusing on portraiture, she explores themes of identity, power, and historical memory, highlighting overlooked figures such as marginalized artists, inventors, and political actors. Her portraits offer new perspectives through narratives of resistance and vulnerability.
Raised in an artistic printmaking studio, Newmen studied at the intersection of Fine Art, Performance, and feminist theory and graduated in 2019 with an MA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She has exhibited internationally at venues such as Museum Gunzenhauser, Stuttgart Ballet, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the British Film Institute.
As co-founder of soft power, a Berlin-based platform for non-commercial projects, she was part of its artistic leadership from 2020 to 2024.
