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Stih & Schnock is a Berlin-based artist duo, formed by Renata Stih, Professor at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and chair of Berlin's art in public space advisory commission and Frieder Schnock, PhD in Art History, a former curator at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel and head of education at Berlin's artists association. Their works, which often have caused debate in German society, deal primarily with collective memory in society. The Holocaust is also a recurring reference for their artistic interventions. Stih & Schnock are frequent lecturers and visiting professors primarily in the United States. Their works have been exhibited in Berlin (The Art of Collecting), at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, the Jewish Museum of New York, the Museum London (Ontario), the Saint Louis Art Museum and at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Andreas Huyssen, Professor at Columbia University, and James E. Young, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have given critical attention to Stih & Schnock's works as examples of the 'counter-monument'.
In 2015 Stih & Schnock were honored as Distinguished Service Awardees by the Obermayer German Jewish History Awards.