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 researcher. In 2002, she received a diploma in Fine Arts and Design from the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. In 2007, she completed her Master of Arts in Communication Design, Philosophy and Media Theory at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedrich.

Her Master’s thesis, Surveillance and Punishment: 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 consumer demand and ultimately into profit, a cycle approaching collective obsession. This critical lens has since become inseparable from Stern’s artistic 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 in which writing shapes perception and questions identities.

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 work has 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 is held in private, corporate, and museum collections worldwide. Her exhibition catalogs have been accepted for archival inclusion by the New York Public Library. Beyond the art world, her work has also appeared in film and television productions for Netflix, Amazon, and ZDF.

Recent projects include the exhibition Lililalaland (2024) in cooperation with Kunstverein Eisenach, as well as presentations at the ACHAVA Festival in Thuringia and the Art in Action Conference in New York (2025). Exhibitions include ZAK, Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, as part of the 30th ROHKUNSTBAU.