SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based artist and educator working across sound, image, material, technology, and embodied interaction. Her practice investigates mediation as a condition through which perception, meaning, and relation emerge.

She develops installations, live works, and research-based collaborations across artistic, technological, and interdisciplinary contexts.

SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based artist and educator working across sound, image, material, technology, and embodied interaction. Her practice investigates mediation as a condition through which perception, meaning, and relation emerge. She creates interactive installations, audiovisual environments, and live works in which bodies, materials, sound, image, and technological systems continuously influence one another.

A central concern of her practice is how relationships change as they move between different systems of perception, knowledge, and matter. She works with translation, materiality, incomplete information, and feedback as both conceptual concerns and practical methods, creating situations in which processes that are difficult to perceive directly can become experienced through sound, light, movement, and embodied interaction.

Her current artistic research develops across several connected lines. freq:res investigates audiovisual perception through frequency, sound, and generative systems. opt:exp explores optical, material, and computational conditions of perception through light, sound, textiles, and embodied processes. Within opt:exp, Entangled Threads brings together research into scientific phenomena, embodied knowledge, textile, sensing, sound, and audiovisual systems.

Folding Field (2025) developed within the FUNKEN × MAIN ArtScience residency at the Research Center MAIN, TU Chemnitz, where Star worked with researchers and laboratory environments. Electromagnetic field recordings and structures encountered through nanomembrane research were translated into sound, light, textile, movement, and performance. Her current work The Golden Signal, in development within Entangled Threads, continues this investigation through Zlatovez embroidery from Eastern Croatia, where she grew up, exploring gesture, material memory, conductive textile, sensing, sound, and light.

Alongside her research-based practice, Star works extensively in live and collaborative contexts. She conceives and performs visual and audiovisual systems in real time, improvising in dialogue with musicians, dancers, performers, materials, and spatial conditions. Her collaborative work includes Pitch Shifting and PAPER fLUX (PingPengPerformances), alongside a wider body of interdisciplinary performances and audiovisual works.

Her practice has been developed and presented internationally through residencies and research contexts including FUNKEN × MAIN Research Center (TU Chemnitz), StopOver Berlin, School of Machines, FLUXUS S(I)EX TIES Wiesbaden, Containerklang, Planet Ears Art Residency, and the Silk Road International Art Residency in Xi'an, China. She has exhibited and presented work at institutions and platforms including the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Universität der Künste Berlin’s Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, the Music Biennale Zagreb, and ISEA 2026.

Alongside her artistic practice, Star works across education, curation, and collaborative research in experimental art, music, and design. Her work in these contexts extends her interest in interaction, communication, perception, and the ways relationships are shaped through mediation, materiality, and collective exchange.

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