Leonie Kellein (b. 1993) is an artist and filmmaker who works primarily with sculpture, sound and moving image. In her multi-part video and audio installations, she creates plastic forms that deal with representations of trauma, embodied knowledge and historical continuities. She has a sculptural approach to filmmaking and often works with permeable, transparent material, sound and light. Kellein often utilizes loops to reference formal means and instruments of filmmaking.

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 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Scholarship 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.

Since 2022 she is part of the selection committee for the German competition for the →International Short Film Festival Hamburg.

Download ↓ CV

Leonie Kellein (b. 1993) is an artist and filmmaker who works primarily with sculpture, sound and moving image. In her multi-part video and audio installations, she creates plastic forms that deal with representations of trauma, embodied knowledge and historical continuities. She has a sculptural approach to filmmaking and often works with permeable, transparent material, sound and light. Kellein often utilizes loops to reference formal means and instruments of filmmaking.

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 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Scholarship 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.

Since 2022 she is part of the selection committee for the German competition for the →International Short Film Festival Hamburg.

Download ↓ CV