
About
Me
Since I was ten years old, the camera has been my means of expression. I film, photograph, and experiment – with images, movement, and language. Early on, I realized that this medium is more than just a tool for me: it’s a mirror, an amplifier, a form of resistance.
My work revolves around the question of what it means to be human. I’m interested in how external influences – social, political, spatial – affect the body and mind. How bodies relate to one another. How closeness forms. Or distance. I’m often part of my own works – my body becomes a means of communication: in performances, self-portraits, as a character, an image, or a fragment.
I work in fiction, but also occasionally in documentary formats – analog and digital, physical and theoretical. Research plays a central role in my process. I work with numbers, statistics, and academic texts – even when the outcome turns out surreal, ironic, or provocative. I’m drawn to structures. To power, language, and images. To the construction of reality – and how art can manipulate it.
I see art as a collective process. I work across disciplines, seek dialogue with others, and integrate different perspectives into my projects. Through collaborative thinking and production, new forms often emerge – ones that defy clear categorization, and that’s exactly what fascinates me.
As a filmmaker, my focus is on fictional cinema. I’m interested in new narratives, alternative production methods, and collective processes. I work as a screenwriter, director, and producer – constantly searching for hybrid forms between cinema, theater, and installation.
My art is often personal, but never private. It is an attempt to share. An invitation to think, to feel, to disagree.
Isabelle Konrad (*1998 in Weißenhorn, Bavaria) is a German film director, writer, dramaturge, and media artist.
She studied Media Art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and graduated with a diploma in Media Art in January 2025. In 2022, she completed an Erasmus semester in “Theatre & Performance” at IUAV in Venice.
Her works have been presented in renowned galleries, museums, and festivals, including Galerie Tobias Schrade in Ulm, Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Triennale Ulm, and the Boden International Film Festival. Among her projects are the mixed-media work Heute hatte ich eine Krise (2021), the performance pieces Pile of Remains (2022) and IST. (2023), the medium-length film Paranoia (2024), and her diploma project It’s okay now (2024) – an autofictional video installation exploring memory, identity, and self-representation.
Awards & Successes
07.03.2014
Jugendkunstpreis Weißenhorn
28.05.2014
First exhibition at the "Kulturnacht Weißenhorn"
13.05.2015
Exhibition at the "Kulturnacht Weißenhorn"
24.07.2015 - 20.09.2015
Exhibition 21.Triennale Ulm at the Kunsthalle Weishaupt
August/September 2015
Frist filmproject „The Freakshow“ (shortfilm)
21.11.2015
Sonderpreis des 14. Schwäbischen Jufinale for “The Freakshow”
February 2016 until End of 2016
Participation at the production of the feature film „Landrauschen“ (Satire-Drama/Heimatfilm)
May 2017 until October 2019
Direction & Production film"Small Deaths"
24.05.2017
Exhibition at the "Kulturnacht Weißenhorn"
25.11.2017
2. Price at the Hofbräu Trophy 2017 for the commercial "Damals" at the Filmschool Fest Munich
23.03.2018-06.05.2018
Exhibition „Projekt 24/7“ as part of the „Moderne im Schloss“ at the Neuffenschloss Weißenhorn
06.11.2018 - 18.11.2018
Part of the group exhibition "Let´s Perform the Archive!" as part of the 200-year celebration of the Badischen Kunstvereins Karlsruhe
30.09.2018 - 11.11.2018
Annual edition of the Ulmer Kunstverein 2018
("Full"; Digital Photography; 2014)
May 2019
Direction & production of the music video "Du & Ich"
by New HK Lorenzo
October 2019
Direction & production of the music video "Supernova" by Sleeping Tree
October 2019 until January 2022
Direction & production film "Purpur"
November 2019
Production of the shortfilm "Zu früh, Schon traurig"
by Till Gombert (Diploma film)
Januar/March 2020
Jury member of the schwäbischen JUFINALE 2020
30.07.2020 - 02.08 2020
Nomination for the Filmreif-Musikvideopreis for "Du & Ich"- New HK Lorenzo at the Bundesfestival Junger Film
August 2020
Production of the music video "Le Palier" - HIBA
by Nelly Corsten-Weckel (Director)
March/April 2021
Production of the VR-Shortfilm "Dream-Job"
by Shuaitong Zong (Diploma film)
April 2021 until March 2024
Script & Direction of the mid-length film „Paranoia“
04.09.2021 - 18.09.2021
Solo exhibition „Today I had a crisis“
at the Tobias Schrade Gallery in Ulm, Germany
10.09.2021- 24.04.2022
Part of the group exhibition „Mindbombs“ at the Kunsthalle Mannheim with the installation „Me, Terrorist
17.05.2022
Performance "A Pile of Remains", Sacca San Mattia, Murano (Veneto, Italia)
02.07.2022 – 14.10.2022
Part of the International Filmcollage "60x60" (with the videowork "Satt") from the Museum "Brot & Kunst" in Ulm
September 2022
Concept & Direction Musicvideo "By the Sea" - Ella Fall
26.10.2022
Winner of the category "Best Women Film Maker" for the feature film "Purpur" at the Boden International Film Festival (Sweden)
Contact
Isabelle Conrad
konradisabelle@gmail.com
Phone: +4917680796654
based in
Germany, Karlsruhe & Ulm
Studio community "Im Hinterzimmer" (76131, Karlsruhe)