{"id":6,"date":"2018-01-14T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariavedder.sights1.atria.uberspace.de\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:37:57","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mariavedder.de\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Vedder has been a media artist since the late seventies.
\nFrom 1991 – 2014 she was a Full Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.
\nHere she was co-founder of the Institute for Time-Based Media and the Art and Media Course.<\/p>\n

She has spent long periods doing artistic research in Asia, where she has been also a guest lecturer on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n

She has written books about video, together with Bettina Gruber: \u201eKunst und Video\u201c and \u201eDuMonts Handbuch der Videopraxis\u201c (DuMont-publishing house, Cologne, Germany).<\/p>\n

Besides other awards she won the main prize in the 1988 \u201eMarler Video Art Award\u201c for the work \u201eThe Heartbeat of Anubis\u201c, together with Bettina Gruber.<\/p>\n

She has exhibited all over the word.<\/p>\n

Her works are in the collections of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Gallery Shimada, Yamaguchi-Shi, Japan; Gallery Scan, Tokyo, Japan; ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; and others<\/p>\n

2009 she was an Artist in Residence in India, 1.Shantiroad Studio, Bangalore.
\nIn 2012 she won the grant EMARE MEXICO of Werkleitz Halle and the European Commission.
\n2014 Special price of the jury of the Kunstpreis Haus am Kleistpark Berlin.
\n2019 Project grant of the foundation K\u00fcnstlerdorf Sch\u00f6ppingen, Germany.
\n2020 Interactive single catalog “All the Time in the World”,\u00a0video works Maria Vedder, DISTANZ-Publishing House Berlin, funding by the Berlin Cultural Senate
\n2020 Artist Residence, Plan B. Artist Studios, Greece
\n2022 Project grant by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, NEUSTART KULTUR, BBK<\/p>\n

Exhibitions and Screenings from 2009 on<\/strong> (Selection)
\n2025<\/strong>
\n“The rules of the sport”, Group exhibition,\u00a0French Embassy in Belo Horizonte and other places in Brazil (SCAC)<\/p>\n

2024
\n<\/strong>“The rules of the sport”, Group exhibition, Centre Pompidou Paris
\nCurated by G\u00e9raldine Gomez
\nThe rules of the sport<\/a><\/p>\n

“RE_EXHIBIT SHE-WOLVES_EROTISM>LOVE>BODY”, Online Gallery, REWIND Collection, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
\nwith Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, Bettina Gruber, \u017diva Kraus, Lydia Schouten and Maria Vedder
\nCurated by Laura Leuzzi
\nSHE-WOLVES_EROTISM>LOVE>BODY<\/a><\/p>\n

“SHE-WOLVES_EROTISM>LOVE>BODY”, 24.9., “Over the Real festival”, Auditorium San Micheletto, Lucca, Italy
\nhttps:\/\/www.arshake.com\/en\/re-exhibit-she-wolves_erotism-love-body\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“I Don\u2019t Pay Your Price. queer feminist interventions with the video camera”, group exhibition, Lore Deutz Museum Cologne, Germany
\nCurated by Kat Lawinia Gorska<\/p>\n

“KunstKiosk”, October 2024 – March 2025, group exhibition Goethe-Institut Kolkata, India
\nwith Bettina Gruber\/Maria Vedder, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Ulrike Rosenbach, Katharina Sieverding, Ursula Wevers, Wolf Vostell
\nCurated by Barbara Hess<\/p>\n

2023
\n<\/strong>“Garish and Shrill \u2013 The Interweaving of Video Art and Feminist Criticism in the 1980s”, Screening, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Germany
\nCurated by Kat Lawinia Gorska
\n
\n<\/strong>“Les Moissons”, L<\/span><\/span>e festival La chambre verte, Auteuil, France
\nCurated by G\u00e9raldine Gomez
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

“Things and Nonthings”
\nSolo exhibition, City Gallery Nordhorn, catalog<\/p>\n

\u201eExamples to Follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability ETF!\u201c
\nUferhallen Berlin
\nexpeditions in aesthetics and sustainability <\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/strong>
\n\u201eThingst\u00e4tten\u201c, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Exhibition, booklet
\nGalerie ACI<\/a><\/p>\n

Artist Talk in the studio of Maria Vedder, with Julia Rosenbaum\/StudioVisits
\nJulia Rosenbaum Studiovisits<\/a><\/p>\n

Screening, Raum f\u00fcr drastische Ma\u00dfnahmen, Berlin-Friedrichshain
\nCurated by Kat Lawinia Gorska<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong>
\n“Paradoxical Objects” Video Sculpture Art from 1968 to Today
\nOnline Exhibition:
\nwww.paradoxical-objects.net<\/a><\/p>\n

“ready ready made”, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany<\/p>\n

“Sehnsucht (Longing)”, Scotty, Berlin, Germany
\nScotty Berlin<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Off Space City of Gold, Essen, Germany<\/p>\n

\u201eHitting Puberty\u201c, Stiftung IMAI Inter Media Art Institute D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/p>\n

“Writing the History of the Future”, collection of the ZKM\/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
\nZKM Writing the History of the Future<\/a><\/p>\n

2020
\n<\/strong>“Home”, switch, projections in public space, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
\nswitch<\/a><\/p>\n

Kunstverein Munich, Germany
\nKunstverein Munich<\/a><\/p>\n

“20\/20 100 Jahre Berlin”, Kunsthaus Schoeler Berlin, Germany, catalog<\/p>\n

“Das Klaus Peter Schn\u00fcttger-Webs Museum”, Kunstmuseum Kolumba, Cologne, Germany, catalog<\/p>\n

“Writing the History of the Future”, collection of the ZKM\/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
\nZKM Writing the History of the Future<\/a><\/p>\n

2019
\n<\/strong>\u201eArtists for Future\u201c, GG3 GROUP GLOBAL 3000, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin Kreuzberg, Germany
\nArtists for Future<\/a><\/p>\n

“Das Klaus Peter Schn\u00fcttger-Webs Museum”
\nKunstmuseum Kolumba, Cologne, Germany<\/p>\n

\u201eExamples to Follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability ETF!\u201c, Erfurt, Germany,\u00a0Galerie Waidspeicher
\n\u201eExamples to Follow\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n

Video art exhibition series \u201eAuf Zeit\u201c, curated by Maria Vedder,\u00a0Kanzlei White & Case Berlin, Germany
\nwith the artists Niklas Goldbach and Alexandra Ranner, mini catalog<\/p>\n

“Writing the History of the Future”, collection of the ZKM\/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
\nZKM Writing the History of the Future<\/a><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>
\nSculpture Center New York, USA, Sculpture Center \u201eBefore Projection: Video Sculpture 1975-1995\u201c<\/a>
\nwith the installation “PAL oder Never The Same Color”
\ncatalog<\/p>\n

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA, MIT “Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1975\u20131995\u201c<\/a>
\nwith the installation “PAL oder Never The Same Color”
\ncatalog<\/p>\n

“Schnell und schmutzig” (quick and dirty), Gaswerksiedlung Rummelsburg, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

“HEIM_Spiel”,\u00a0 rk_Galerie fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst Berlin, Germany
\ncatalog
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Video art exhibition series \u201eAuf Zeit\u201c, curated by Maria Vedder,\u00a0Kanzlei White & Case Berlin, Germany
\nwith the artists Heike Baranowsky and\u00a0Christoph Brech
\nmini catalog<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>
\nScreening European Women’s Video Art EWVA, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland<\/p>\n

Video art exhibition series \u201eAuf Zeit\u201c,\u00a0curated by Maria Vedder
\nKanzlei White & Case Berlin, Germany
\nwith the artists Yvon Chabrowski and\u00a0Franz Reimer
\nmini catalog<\/p>\n

\u201eExamples to Follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability ETF!\u201c,\u00a0Parque Cultural de Valparaiso, Chile. ETF! was awarded “Best international exhibition in Chile in 2017” by the Chilean Circle of Art Critics.\u00a0\u201eExamples to Follow\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>
\n“Switch”, Exhibition in public space, projection of eight cinematic works across the town\u00a0of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.\u00a0View catalog<\/a> und films on s-w-i-t-c-h.org<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201eMTV! – Media Art Televise!\u201c,\u00a0curated by Franz Reimer, FAQ Bremen, Germany<\/p>\n

\u201eExamples to Follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability ETF!\u201c,\u00a0Marstall Schwerin, church castle Br\u00f6llin, Germany<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>
\n\u201eMoments of Awareness\u201c,\u00a0rk_Galerie fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst Berlin, Germany
\ncatalog<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>
\nArt award \u201eHaus am Kleistpark 2014\u201c, Berlin, Germany:\u00a0special price of the jury for the video installation \u201eGhost Dance”<\/p>\n

\u201eWhat’s The Time?\u201c Maria Vedder and alumni of\u00a0Class Media Art,\u00a0Berlin University of the Arts, at Center for Art and Urbanistics ZK\/U<\/a>, Berlin, Germany
\ncatalog<\/p>\n

\n

\u201eExamples to Follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability ETF!\u201c,\u00a0Capilla del Arte UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico:\u00a01-channel-installation “Susurrus_Mexico”<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Goethe-Institut Mexico City:\u00a03-channel-installation “Susurrus_Mexico”<\/p>\n

2013
\n<\/strong>“Re-Orientation –\u00a02nd Mediterranean Biennale”,\u00a0Sakhnin, Israel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Artistic director Belu-Simion Fainaru<\/p>\n

“Schichtwechsel”, Goetz Collection \/ Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Nordstern Videokunstzentrum Gelsenkirchen, Germany<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

catalog<\/p>\n

2012
\n<\/strong>“No Senses”, Tagesspiegel\u00a030.6.2012, look:\u00a0newspaper page designed by maria vedder<\/a><\/p>\n

ARTE Public TV Station: Video Night 18. – 21.10.2012 with the film “At Close Quarters (beieinander)”<\/p>\n

ARTE Public TV Station: home page Creative: August Video of the month \/ Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, with the film “The Hartbeat of the Anubis (Der Herzschlag des Anubis)”<\/p>\n

\u201eAmbiguous Being\u201c, Houg-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

“Metal Talk”, Concert Zeitkratzer \/ Lou Reed, Berliner Festspiele, Germany
\nVideo Stage Design<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong>
\nMaria Vedder singing in the Tempor\u00e4ren Kunsthalle Berlin,\u00a0Germany in the exhibition “Zeigen” by Karin Sander<\/p>\n

Have a look to the photo blog<\/strong> of her study trip in China and India\/ Vedder auf der Vlucht (Vedder on the run): www.mariavedder.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Awards, Scholarships, Artist in Residences<\/strong> (selection)
\nMain prize \u201eMarler Video Art Award 1988\u201c, Germany, for the work \u201eThe Heartbeat of Anubis\u201c
\nMain prize Festival International de Video, 1991 Vigo, Spain
\nArtist in Residence 1.Shantiroad Studio, 2009, Bangalore, India
\nArtist in residence\/project grant in Mexico: EMARE Centro Multimedia\/Centro Nacional de las Artes Mexico City, Werkleitz Halle Germany, Goethe-Institut Mexico, European Commission, 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Special price of the jury of the Kunstpreis\/art-award \u201cHaus am Kleistpark 2014\u201d, Berlin, Germany
\nNomination Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, 2014
\nCatalog grant Kultursenat Berlin, 2019
\nArtist Residence, Plan B. Artist Studios, Griechenland, 2020<\/p>\n

Public Collections<\/strong> (selection)
\nMuseum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
\nMuseum Folkwang Essen, Germany
\nNeuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
\nKupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Darlings), Berlin, Germany
\nZKM\/Zentrum f\u00fcr Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
\nSkulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
\nGoetheinstitut Germany
\nInstitut f\u00fcr Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart, Germany
\nTate Gallery Liverpool, England
\nImage Library of the Musashino Art University, Tokio, Japan
\nFukui Culture Center, Tokio, Japan
\nGallery Shimada, Yamaguchi-Shi, Japan
\nKunst- und Kulturzentrum Et Huset, Copenhagen, Denmark
\nKunstbibliothek Lyngby, Denmark
\nArtCom San Francisco, USA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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