Dikla Stern was born in 1972 in Tel Aviv / Israel and grew up there till she was four. Afterwards her family immigrated to the North of Germany and then to Mannheim. At the age of ten she took her first experimental pictures as an artistic work. At the age of ten she processed her first experimental photos in the chamber classically.

During and after passing her A-Level in Germany she got experiences in theatre, film and TV production and agencies in Germany, Poland and Israel. By doing that she had the possibility to know and to learn artists from different genres such as Ari Folmann, Achim Freyer, Jürgen Holtz, Tadeusz Wilkosz, Steffen Herbold etc.

She decided to qualify in arts and studied Graphic Arts at "Avni-Institute of Fine Arts" in Tel Aviv. Then she moved back to Germany and in 2005 she studied Communication Design with focus on Media Theory and Philosophy instructed by Prof. Thomas Friedrich at the "University of Mannheim" in Mannheim, faculty of Arts, and obtained her Master`s degree in Arts.

The exposé in which she graduated and which was published 2008 is based on Michael Foucaults “Supervising and Punishment – the birth of the jail” and deals with the reflexion of subjective perception on existing occurrences. The focus here is on the safety products and safety precations, on the subjective sensation of man towards anxiety and how the economic system refers to this maximizing of profit.

Dikla Stern works as a freelance Israeli artist and designer. She lives and works both in Tel Aviv and Mannheim where she exhibits in different places such as Expressions fine Art Gallery.