Esther Gronenborn is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist based near Berlin. After a successful international film career (alaska.de, Ich werde nicht schweigen, Das weiße Schweigen), she has, in recent years, expanded her practice into visual and media art.
Working with photography, digital collage, and AI-generate video installations, she explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, memory and transformation. Her visual works integrate cinematic language – such as time manipulation, symbolic layering, and narrative tension – into digital media and image synthesis. In late 2024, she began presenting her visual work to the public through exhibitions.
Her pieces have been shown at the Produzentengalerie Potsdam, and her installation The Institute has been selected for the upcoming Labirynt Festival Słubice. Her AI-based films are featured internationally, including at Odyssee Projectand MetaMorph Festival.
She is a member of the German and European Film Academies and co-founded the equality initiatives Pro Quote Regie and Pro Quote Film.
Artistic Focus
Photographic collage, painterly image construction, poetic reimagining of landscape. Themes include ecological loss, temporal dislocation, emotional distance. AI Installations
Experience
Founding board member: Pro Quote Regie / Pro Quote Film
Member: German and European Film Academy
Member: BBK Art Society Berlin Brandenburg
Lecturer and workshop leader in image composition and storytelling
Prizes (selection):
Das weiße Schweigen DAFfne 2022
Das weiße Schweigen, Nominierung Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2022
Stadt als Beute, Preis der Filmkritik 2005
alaska.de Nominierung europäischer Filmpreis
alaska.de Nominierung Grimme Preis
alaska.de Bayerischer Filmpreis
Lola, Deutscher Filmpreis beste Regie
Exhibitions:
BBVK-Land an sich II
BBVK- Welcome
Odyssee Project 2025
Metamorph 2025
Labirynt, Festival für new Art, Slubice
