Johanna Diehl studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Prof. Timm Rautert and Boris Mikhailov and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris under Christian Boltanski and Jean-Marc Bustamante. Her works have been on show at many national and international exhibitions and she has received numerous awards, most recently the working stipend from the Foundation Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, the Border Crossers Grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, the EHF programme of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung as well as a grant from the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo for Casa Baldi.