Donna Volta Newmen

Donna Volta Newmen is a Berlin-based visual artist whose practice combines traditional techniques of intaglio printmaking with painterly elements of monotype. Raised in an artistic printmaking studio, Newmen studied at the intersection of Fine Art, Performance, and Critical Theory and graduated in 2019 with an MA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. 

Driven by the quest to find and depict hidden stories of complex characters, Nemwen blends the historically male-dominated craft of intaglio with themes of present-day feminism. Her practice involves extensive research into the lives of historical, mythological, and fictional figures. 

Newmen's work was supported and shown in various cultural institutions such as soft power Berlin, the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, the Stuttgart Ballet, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, the Performance Philosophy Biennale Amsterdam, the Dutch National Opera, the British Film Institute, XL Recordings, and MACAO Milano.

She is co-founder of the art association soft power in Berlin, where she pursues an artistic interest in collective world-building to create spaces beyond conventional exhibition contexts.