Alisa Berger is a filmmaker and artist born in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, and Essen, Germany. She studied film and fine art at the Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. Her graduation film and feature debut The Astronauts' Bodies was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and the FIRST STEPS Award of the Deutsche Filmakademie. At the International Film Festival of Uruguay, she received the Best Film Award for New Directors, as well as the H. W. Geißendörfer Screenwriting Award.
Berger creates films and installations, often through collaborative processes in which performative interventions accompany, co-create, transform or dismantle the work. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, HMKV in Dortmund and PATARA Gallery in Tbilisi, as well as in group exhibitions at institutions including the Museum Biennale in Krasnoyarsk, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin, KAI 10 and Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art and BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Center. From 2022, she studied at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, where she created the film INVISIBLE PEOPLE. The work received the Studio Collector Prize at Jeu de Paume and the Analix Forever Award.