Film, video, photography, performance
2024
It´s okay now
"It's okay now" is an autofictional video installation by Isabelle Konrad in collaboration with Gloria Müller, created as part of her diploma thesis. Through the practice of remembering, the work explores questions of origin, identity, and self-presentation. Archival footage, fictional scenes, and personal performances interweave into a narrative structure between reality and fiction.
2024
Paranoia
In Paranoia, Fay battles her inner demons, embodied by the relentless Incubus, in a psychological duel to overcome her deepest fears.
2023
IST.
"IST." is an interdisciplinary performance by Isabelle Konrad, Luisa Hentsch, and Amelie Poxleitner. In an interplay of spoken word poetry, movement, and the creation of a sculptural, edible painting, the work explores the connection between being and eating. The flow of wine, the breaking of bread, and the transformation of flour, oil, and butter become symbolic gestures about community, fragmentation, and transformation. The audience is invited to become part of the work by consuming the edible artwork. "IST." opens up a sensory space of experience, combining poetic reflection with performative materiality.
2023
By the Sea
Musicvideo for Ella Fall “By the Sea”
Director: Isabelle Konrad
DOP: Jonas Sommer
Scenography: Josephine Leicht
Cast: Mariella Schelch
Make up & Hair: Kerstin Koch Still
Editor: & Colorist Jonas Sommer
2022
Satt
"Satt" is a performative video work by Isabelle Konrad that explores the state of being "unheard." Its starting point is political and social discourses surrounding climate change and social justice—characterized by endless words, empty promises, and a lack of consequences. The work addresses the powerlessness of being able to defend oneself solely with language, while real options for action are lacking. Between frustration, censorship, and speechlessness, a picture emerges of being overwhelmed by stagnation and not listening.
2022
Pile of Remains
Sacca San Mattia Island near Venice – a 40,000 m² dump of industrial waste. The work addresses environmental pollution, irresponsibility, and the ghosts of a fading culture. In a live performance, Isabelle Konrad combined image projections, a reading, and a sound collage to create a multi-layered echo of creeping destruction. A QR code on site provides a permanent reference to the impact of the pollutants on the lagoon.
2022
Purpur
“Purpur” is an experimental film about gender roles in the film industry – telling the story of a character who rebels against an outdated image of women and an exploitative system.
2021
I, Terrorist
"I, a Terrorist" questions stereotypical images of perpetrators, algorithmic profiling, and media narratives surrounding the concept of terrorism. The performative text confronts social attributions and questions why certain bodies are potentially considered dangerous – while others never are. A reflection on visibility, power, privilege, and the dangerous logic of automated control.
2020/21
Today I Had a Crisis
"Today I Had a Crisis" is a photographic, textual, and filmic exploration of Isabelle Konrad's personal experience of the coronavirus pandemic. The works reflect states ranging from standstill, overwhelm, and absurd comedy. In the performance "Spaghetti in Sections" (with Josephine Leicht), presented at the Ulm Culture Night 2021, she and Josephine address the emptiness, memory, and speechlessness during the pandemic—accompanied by a fragmentary soundtrack.
2019
Ich & Du
Music video for Nu HK Lorenzo - “You & I”
Idea, direction, production: Isabelle Konrad
DOP: Alexander Thelen, Sophie Reißfelder
Lighting, Camera Assistant: Pauline Cemeris, Yael Kolb
Cast: Julia Serena Unseld, Finn Baygan
Hair & Make-Up: Nelly Corsten
Costume: Rustam Faradschev
2019
Supernova
Music video for Sleeping Tree - Supernova
Unfortunately the video is currently no longer available on YT.
Idea, direction, production, DoP: Isabelle Konrad
Lighting & Camera Assistant: Naomé Tahmaz
Editor: Isabelle Konrad
2018
Project 24/7
In the project 24/7, Isabelle Konrad deliberately exposed herself to the daily flood of information – newspapers, social media, headlines, crises, and opinions – for two months. The resulting overload, chaos, and the topics that particularly preoccupied her condense into a large-scale collage. The exhibition visualizes a personal reaction to constant digital noise, media oversaturation, and the question of how much information a person can actually process.
2017
Damals
2nd place in the Hofbräu Trophy
Directed by Isabelle Konrad
DOP: Felix Krause
Cast: Hannah Elischer
2017
Ochsen Blues
"Ochsen Blues" is a photographic and cinematic homage to the former cult bar Resis Ochsen in Weißenhorn, Bavaria. Isabelle Konrad portrays the empty rooms and their idiosyncratic 1970s charm with a blend of nostalgia, melancholy, and subtle humor. The work speaks of everyday culture, community, and the farewell to a place that, for many, was more than just a bar. The exhibition is dedicated to Theresia Konrad, the long-time operator of the building.
2016
Re Start/Black
"Re Start / Black" is an autobiographical video work by Isabelle Konrad, which builds on her earlier work "Black" (2015). Following a personal upheaval, she developed a week-long performance featuring radical acts of detachment: digital shutdown, symbolic acts of cleansing, and physical transformation. The work reflects grief, reorientation, and self-forgiveness—accompanied by a poetic voiceover that interprets black as both beginning and end, as a canvas for transformation.
2015
Full
"Full" is a photograph from Isabelle Konrad's early series "Foreign World" and was shown at the 21st Ulm Triennial at the Kunsthalle Weishaupt in 2015. The work plays with the perception of the everyday: ordinary objects become art objects, and familiar things seem strange. Each image in the series opens up its own space of interpretation – unsettling, poetic, ambiguous.
