Dikla Stern M.A. Visual artist | Painting, Installation, Artistic Research
*1972 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Berlin, Germany 

Dikla Stern is an artist, designer, and lecturer. In 2003, she received a diploma in Fine Arts and Design from the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. In 2007, she com-pleted her Master of Arts in Communication Design, Philosophy and Media Theory, at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedrich (Editor of the Journal for Critical Theory).

Her Master’s thesis, Surveillance and Punishing: The Business of Fear (2007), was a study of how rising demands for security infiltrate private and public life. Exploring surveillance technologies, security products, and the economics of fear, she demonstrated how existential anxieties are transformed into con-sumer demand and ultimately into profit, a cycle that borders on collective obsession. This critical lens has since become inseparable from Stern’s artis-tic practice. Her works address the ambiguities of power and law, freedom and control, with irony and urgency, exposing the fractures beneath social conventions. In recent years, she has employed word–image constellations: writing emerges not merely as a graphic element, but as a performative act that shapes perception, questions identities, and insists on language as a site of reflection.

She has received support from the Adrienne and Otmar Hornbach Foundation, the Dieter Kissel Foundation, the Werner Deschauer Foundation, and in 2025 a grant from the Kulturstiftung Thüringen. Her works have been presented at institutions such as the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, the Potemka Gallery in Leipzig, and the European Month of Photography in Berlin, and are held in private, corporate, and museum collections internationally. Her ex-hibition catalogs have been accepted for archival inclusion by the New York Public Library. Beyond the art world, her works have also appeared in film and television productions on platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and ZDF.

Recent projects include the exhibition Lililalaland in 2024 in cooperation with the Art Association Eisenach, as well as presentations within the ACHAVA Fes-tival in Thuringia. In 2025, Stern presented her work at the Art in Action Con-ference in New York. Upcoming exhibitions include a planned exhibition at the ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst in the Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin.