After her studies of photography, theatre and film at the University of Cologne, Maria Vedder’s work has been exhibited widely at galleries and museums throughout the world, and her work has been bought by several large collections, including NBK in Berlin, Museum Ludwig Köln, Tate Liverpool.

She has been active as a media artist since the 70s and has won numerous awards and prizes. She has won numerous awards as a media artist, and her work is part of the German Heritage Video Art Anthology 40 Years of Video Art. An edition of her current work has been bought by the NBK Video Art Collection.
She has been lecturing at several universities in Europe, and since 1991 she has been a professor at the UdK in Berlin.

Maria Vedder lives and works in Berlin.