Leonie Kellein (b. 1993) works primarily with moving image. Her practice centres on the investigation of the filmic gaze and technique in a process of layering that employs narrative structures and forms while drawing attention to the media themselves. Her work - spanning film, sculpture and installation in space - often unfolds between different media and their related materialities. In Kellein's work, moments of disturbance and suspense, omission and repetition, as well as the use of placeholders and non-human bodies are deployed with intentional ambiguity to create a kind of splitting of real time into a double state. This double state is viewed by Kellein first and foremost as political instrument that sets the poetics, politics and violent history of camera images in relation to the body’s sensory feedback.

Leonie Kellein holds an MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image degree from Goldsmiths, University of London, as a DAAD scholarship holder, as well as a BA in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. She has received numerous scholarships and prizes, including the Hamburg Work Scholarship, the MAK Schindler Scholarship (Shortlist) and the Advancement Award of the Arthur Boskamp Foundation. Her films have been screened at International Filmfestival Visions du Réel, Nyon and at the International Filmfestival FID Marseille, amongst others.