Nobody is free until everyone is free.
Free Sudan, Free Palestine, Free Kongo, Free Haiti, Free them all.isabelle edi
(photo: Elif Gündüz)
Isabelle Edi, (she/her) is an artist, costume designer, film maker and curator, circling around Black (diasporic) existences and their echos - in and through (moving-) images, costumes and sound.
Her practice in an artistically and scientifically expanded concept of image, sound and costume production, that incorporates topics of fabulation, nostalgia and futuristic ideas. Swirling up western concepts of time, historical and other time specific elements get interwoven with her own futuristic, playful aesthetics.
She only works in collaboration, for example with: Mariama Sow, Marga Alfeirão, David Uzochukwu, Mzamo Nondlwana, Elvan Tekin, kiana rezvani, Veza Fernandez, Adam Said Tahir, Iris Omari Ansong and many more.
In 2017, friends and her founded: POSSY, a collective which is committed to the visibility of FLINTA* in cultural and club spheres. Since then, sound became a political tool and part of her work.
While being in the Master program „Critical Studies“ at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, she is currently finalizing the collectively written and produced short movie: “A Black Fairytale“ with Mariama Sow and Kim Sanou, which was embedded into a series of workshops for Black people in Vienna.
Besides that, she is working within Queer and Bipoc dance scenes as a costume designer and as artist in between the disciplines.
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vitae:
December 2025: Lecture w/ Mariama Sow: Talking Layers - on class, race and dress, University of Mainz
December 2025: Residency and Showing at PACT Zollverein, Essen
October 2025 - March 2026 Collaboration with Teatro Rosa in Marseille
October 2025: Costume: “Inseln”, Marie Bues & Mehdi Moradpour, Schauspielhaus Wien
September: MA-Thesis in Critical Studies: “On Layering”
May 2025: Performance: „when broken glass glitters“with Iris Omari Ansong, Spit festival
May 2025: Costume: “Dawn“, Adam Said Tahir, MDT Stockholm
Dezember 2024: Costume research and sound: Body Time Space: kiana rezvani, Radialsystem Berlin
Dezember 2024: Costumedesign: No Coração Dela by Marga ALFEIRÃ
October 2024: Costumedesign: „Suspira Me Lira“ by Veza Fernandez
August 2024: Workshop with Luïza Luz: Sound Ecosystems: Deep Listening, Collectivity & Care, Kunsthaus Hamburg
July 2024: Costumedesign: “XÊR“ by Elvan Tekin, Uferstudios Berlin
May 2024: Artisttalk and Listeningsession with Adam & Amina Seid Tahir, Rakete Festival, Tanzquartier Wien
May 2024: Costumedesign: Sadis Rose by Agnes Bakucz Canário, Rakete Festival, Tanzquartier Wien
April 2024: Dramaturgy: "Paskudnik" by Tubi Malcharzik, Brut Vienna
April 2024: Costumedesign: „Turning Point“, Mzamo Nondlwana, Brut Vienna
November 2023: Workshop with Mariama Sow: Hypervisibilitys/ Invisibilities: Applied Photography Class, Angewandte Vienna
October - December 2023: Costumedesign with Mariama Sow: "Yvonne Princess of Burgundy" , Wiktor Ali, Residenztheater Munich
July 2023: Exhibition: "Black body in white castle" Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany
July 2023: Article w/ Tubi Malcharzik: "Vom Pudern und Fisten" Tanzquartier Wien
May 2023: Collective curation: “New Dates - New Bar“ , Zirkusgasse Vienna
April 2023: Costumedesign: "At the Other End of the Revolution", directed by Mable Preach, Lukulue E.V. Hamburg
2023-Dezember 2024: Workshopformat and shortfilm: "A Black Fairytale“. Funded by: Shift, Zukunftsfonds
November 2022: Groupexhibition: “What is another word for holding together?” Exhibit Studio Academy of Fine Arts Vienna January
October 2022: Groupexhibition: "What are you looking at" Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
October 2022: Scholarship for postgraduate studies by DAAD
June 2022: (re)claiming our bodies in the city, Mariama Sow, Kim Sanou, Workshop Brunnenpassage
February - Dezember 2022: Videoproject: Black body in white castle 1-3
December 2021: Publication: Diversity Arts: "Clothes and Class", in cooperation with Mariama Sow
October 2021: Beginning of: Master in Critical Studies/ Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
August 2021: Costumedesign: „And the Beat goes Roarrr“, Mable Preach, Lukulule, Oberhafen Hamburg
Mai 2021: Shortfilm: CIVIL DUSK, Direction: David Uzochukwu/ Jünglinge
Januar 2021: Shortfilm: Cowboyer*innen, Bachelorthesis
October 2020: Organization in the collective: Young Burning Issues Festival, Kampnagel
September 2020: Am schönsten wär‘ die Einzeltat, Direction: SUKA, Berliner Ringtheater
June 2020: Shortfilm: Emotions, Concept/ Costume: Isabelle Edi
June 2020: Shortfilm: Blicke, Director: Zoe Jugbluth, HfbK Hamburg
June 2020: Shortfilm: Weezy Babies, Director: Lennard Eberlein
Summer 2018: Costume collaboration: Superposition, Kat Kaufmann, Director: Marie Stolze, Berliner Ringtheater
March 2020: Study project: Schwarze Erde, Regie: Carolina Cesconetto, Ernst Busch, Volksbühne Berlin
January 2020: Study project: Mortale Piccolo, directed by Katharina Grosch, HfMT Hamburg
October 2019: Workshop: Inter_Actions: Strategien entwickeln: Wie gründe ich ein Kollektiv? Frappant Hamburg
August 2019: Organisation: Kampnagel Sommerfestival Aftershowparty
August 2019: Pop Kultur Berlin, Talk: “Kollektives Arbeiten“ with Leyla Yenirce
2018/2019: Study projects with Marie Stolze, Theaterakademie Hamburg, HfBK Hamburg, Thalia Theater, Kampnagel
September 2019: Groupexhibition, Anatolia Schnitzel, Vienna + Moderation of a talk with different collectives about experiences within collective working
2017-2019: Collaboration with the collective: "One Mother“
2017: Foundation: collective: POSSY/ Planning and realization of various events, management of communication between the collective, institutions and artists
2017: Costume assistance: Christina Geiger, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2016: Costume assistance: Astrid Klein, Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2013: Journalism project, ABC Bildungs und Tagungszentrum e.V, exchange project Tunisia, France 2015: Abitur Max-Brauer-Schule Hamburg