Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Leonie Kellein works across moving image, sculpture and installation to explore how perception is shaped, and at times unsettled, by the technologies that frame it. Her practice examines the tension between bodily awareness and mechanical recording, creating moments where seeing becomes an embodied and uncertain act. Through this focus on the filmic gaze, she investigates how acts of looking reveal the politics and material operations of the image itself. Kellein’s current research extends into the areas of trauma, memory and spatial disorientation. Her recent works consider how the body registers imbalance, translating psychological and sensory states into cinematic form. Using techniques such as the Vertigo effect, she transforms optical distortion into a means of sensing the unstable connections between body, machine and world.

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. In 2025, she was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards. Her films have been screened at International Filmfestival Visions du Réel, Nyon and at the International Filmfestival FID Marseille, amongst others.