“In Maria Vedder’s new video pieces the question of the specifics of media debated so hotly in the seventies and eighties has largely evaporated. The works focus on a few image-objects that speak essentially for themselves. In their minimalism the ambiguity of the images becomes tangible. The video Allianzen (alliances) shows whirlwinds on a sand pile before the surging tower of the Allianz concern, which played a major part in the turbulences of the financial crisis. In the five-channel installation Aus dem Nichts, Out of Nothing, the viewer witnesses the generation of a traffic jam. As the title states, the jam emerges out of thin air before disappearing again, all without recognisable cause in accordance with the principles of chaos theory. The charming simplicity in Maria Vedder’s video pieces, which do without technical and thematic effects, maybe wants to tell us that the “neue Unuebersichtlichkeit” (“new confusedness”) of the world, long since diagnosed by Juergen Habermas, demands – among others – from art a new “economy of attention” that no longer stands in competition to the digital information flood. Maria Vedder works on rendering us sensitive to the visible signs of the invisible, e.g. electricity, the financial crisis and chaos theory. For Marshall McLuhan, electricity was simply “a medium without a message” and therefore something invisible to itself, while generating visibility. In the same way, there is a latent connection between theme and technique in Susurrus. To put it another way, this video installation also needs electricity and it is precisely this fact that the installation makes explicit. Susurrus is thus media-specific, but in the depth structure of its techno-social context, not on the visual surface.”
Dieter Daniels, from the catalog “.move forward- new mexican and european media art”, Werkleitz Festival 2012

please refer:
Video-Forum in the “Neuer Berliner Kunstverein”:
https://www.nbk.org/en/video-forum/Maria_Vedder.html

Videography (selection)
No Senses, work in progress, 2000 until today

The Indian Olympics / Die Indische Olympiade, work in progress, 1981 until today

The flying dutchman / Der Fliegende Holländer, work in progress, 1980 until today

Thing Sites / Thingstätten, 2019

Against the wall / Gegen die Wand, 2018

The Rainmakers / Die Regenmacher, 2016

Ghost Dance, 2014

Chinese Whispers, 2013

Pure Hand Work, 2013

Susurrus, 2013, 2012, 2010

La Bestia, 2012

Alliances / Allianzen, 2010

Out of Nothing / Aus dem Nichts, 2010, 2009, 2008

The ice sphinx, 2007

Threshold / Schwelle, 2006, Soundtrack Brian Eno

at close quarters (beieinander), 2006

Surfing, 2004

Joss, 2001

For Hermann, 2000

Metal Talk, 2000

Breathless / Ausser Atem, 2000

Berlin 21.6.1996, 1996

Drifting, 1995

The expanded respiratory center / Das erweiterte Atemzentrum, 1992

Tape it, 1992

The respiratory center / Das Atemzentrum, 1991

The videochoir / Der Videochor, 1991

The electronica soup / Die elektronische Suppe, 1990

And the Galaxis heard / Und die Galaxien hörten, 1990

The Target, 1990

Cologne fairy tale, 1989, with Wulf Herzogenrath

Sparkle and fire / Glanz und Feuer, 1989, Soundtrack: Brian Eno

Shut Up, 1989

Circling, 1988, with Douglas Davis/New York und Hank Bull/Vancouver

PAL oder Never The Same Color”, 1988

Travelling Acquaintance / Reisebekanntschaft, 1988

The Heartbeat of the Anubis / Der Herzschlag des Anubis, 1988, in collaboration with B. Gruber

Wireless Operator to the Sirius, part 2 / Funker zum Sirius Teil 2, 1987

Blues for an unknown Photographen / Blues für einen unbekannten Photographen, 1987

Silent Language, 1986, Soundtrack Brian Eno

Live broadcast of the opening of the Klaus Peter Schnüttger-Webs Museum in the opening of the Museum Ludwig / Direktübertragung der Eröffnung des Klaus Peter Schnüttger-Webs Museums in die Eröffnung des Museums Ludwig, 1986, with Dirk Bach, Brian Eno, Thomas Grünfeld, Georg Herold, Hella von Sinnen et al.

Catfish Tango, 1986, in collaboration with B. Gruber

A look in the video workshop, 1986, in cooperation with Bettina Gruber and Ulrich Tillmann, commissioned production for the ZDF / second German television, production: Blitzvideo

Young art for the telly, 1986, in cooperation with Bettina Gruber, commissioned production for the ZDF / second German television, production: Blitzvideo

Big Brother Blues, 1986, in collaboration with B. Gruber

A day at the country side, 1985

Mama’s little pleasure, 1984, in collaboration with B. Gruber

The geometrical locus of all points (Der Geometrische Ort aller Punkte), 1984

The artistic work place or the secret of artistic creation (Künstlerisches Arbeitsfeld oder Das Geheimnis des künstlerischen Schaffens), 1981

Reinhald von Dassel – Wireless Operator to the Sirius / Reinhald von Dassel – Funker zum Sirius, 1980, in collaboration with B. Gruber

A hollow way in the mountains of the brave adventurer / Ein Hohlweg in den Bergen des mutigen Abenteurers, 1979

Abdullah Frères,1979, in collaboration with B. Gruber

About Culture / Über Kultur, 1978, in collaboration with B. Gruber

Intersections / Schnittpunkte, 1978

World city of Cologne / Weltstadt Köln, 1975, Super 8 film, in collaboration with Bettina Gruber and Wolfgang Woessner