SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based artist and educator working across image, sound, and temporal systems. Her practice investigates mediation as the condition through which perception, meaning, and relation emerge.
She develops installations, live systems, and research-based collaborations across artistic and academic contexts.
Stop Over 1 at Alte Münze Berlin - photo Henry Schulz
SANJA STAR (b. 1982, Croatia) is a Berlin-based artist and educator working across image, sound, material, and temporal systems. Her practice is grounded in an investigation of mediation as the condition through which perception, meaning, and relation emerge.
Her work develops experiential environments in which perception forms through interaction, duration, and relational processes. These systems operate as interconnected situations where audiovisual, spatial, and material conditions contribute to the emergence of meaning over time.
Practice spans installations, live configurations, and research-based collaborations. Across these formats, interaction functions as a structuring principle, where feedback, repetition, and temporal variation generate evolving perceptual and communicative environments.
Recent projects engage textile processes, conductive materials, and embodied gesture as components within responsive systems. Physical actions and environmental conditions produce audiovisual situations shaped through continuous transformation and system behaviour.
Her work has been presented internationally through residencies including FUNKEN × MAIN Research Center (TU Chemnitz), Alte Münze Berlin, School of Machines Berlin, Fluxus Wiesbaden, Planet Ears Art Residency, and the Silk Road International Art Residency (Xi’an). She has exhibited at 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 the International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA 2026).
Alongside her artistic practice, she is engaged in educational, curatorial, and collaborative contexts in experimental art, experimental music, and design, where research-based processes explore interaction, communication, and perception as mediated systems.
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Hörbar Hamburg - photo Frank Nagel