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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)

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© 2020 by Isabelle Konrad

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