Leonie Kellein (b. 1993 in Basel, Switzerland) works primarily with moving image. Her practice centres on the investigation of the filmic gaze and technique in a process that employs narrative structures and forms while drawing attention to the media itself. In her work - spanning film, sculpture and installation in space - moments of disturbance, suspense and repetition are deployed with intentional ambiguity to create a kind of splitting of real time into a double state: Bodily perception enters into a dialogue or conflict with mechanical recording. This double state - a state in which real-time presence is doubled or disrupted - is viewed by Kellein first and foremost as a political instrument that sets the carrier devices of images such as cameras, drones or recording devices 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. 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.