Verena Maas was born in 1979 in Saarbrücken and studied English at Lambeth College in London and graphic design in Cologne, Germany. In 2008 Maas graduated with her film “BROWN” from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. During her studies she had diverse residencies in England and New York and 2006 she was guest student at Mason Gross School of Arts, New Jersey, USA in the class of Martha Rosler. Maas works for the artist Gary Kuehn and the Whitebox Gallery in New York.