Professor Dana Arieli is a researcher and a photographer. Arieli’s research deals with the interrelations between Art and Politics in both Totalitarian and Democratic political systems. She has completed her Ph.d. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Photography in Camera Obscura and Bazelel. Her first Solo Exhibition in Israel was accompanied with the catalogue “Closer than they Appear: Givat Ram” (2013). Since than she participated in various solo exhibitions: “The Nazi Phantom” (Solingen Museum for Persecuted Art, 2019); “That Vary Sea”, was opened in Tel Aviv and Hamburg during 2018; “The Polish Phantom” (Museum of Contemporary Art Kracow, 2019). In recent years Arieli presented in group photography exhibitions in Israel and around the world.

Professor Arieli has written numerous articles and books, among the books she published are:
Zionist Phantom (Author and Photography, 2021); Phantoms: Journeys After the Relics of Dictatorships (Editor and Photography, 2016), The Nazi Phantom: A Journey after the relics of the Third Reich (Author. Resling, 2014. the book includes a Photography-catalog, Scared Stiff: Terror and its visualisation in art and popular culture (Editor with Dafna Sering, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2011); Creators and Dictators: Avantgarde and Mobilised Art in Totalitarian Regimes (Author. Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press, 2008, Hebrew); Creators in Overburden: Rabin Assassination, Art and Politics (Author. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, 2005, Hebrew, Winner of Prime-Minister award of the state of Israel, 2006; Romanticism of Steel: Art and Politics in Germany (Author. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1999, Hebrew).

Between 2012-2018 Arieli served as the Dean of Design Faculty at HIT, Holon Institute of Technology, were she is teaching today. Between 2004-2012 she served as the head of the History and Theory Department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.