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Helene Moltke-Leth. Photo by Maria Sattrup
Helene Moltke-Leth: Interdisciplinary Visual Artist
Helene Moltke-Leth (b. 1973, Copenhagen) is a Danish visual artist working with spatial and time-based works. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of visual art, photography, light, sound, and material, investigating perception, mirroring, and relation – how identity, presence, and experience are shaped through time, space, and sensory engagement.
Moltke-Leth’s work often transforms reflective surfaces into dynamic, shifting fields that activate both architecture and the viewer’s bodily presence. Using plexiglass, resin, mirrors, and metal, she integrates light and movement as active elements, creating spaces for experience rather than representation. Her practice is experiential and process-based, emphasizing intuition, rhythm, and material interplay, shaped by her background in film and electronic music.
Trained as a documentary filmmaker at The National Film School of Denmark (2005), Helene began her career in the 1990s as a DJ and electronic music curator, co-founding Klub Vega and hosting her own radio show on DR P3. This foundation in sound and rhythm continues to inform her visual work, where timing, layering, and musicality structure both immersive time-based pieces and spatial, reflective works.
Moltke-Leth’s work has been internationally exhibited in solo and group shows, including Mirroring at Hans Alf Gallery (Copenhagen, 2025), Saul Hay Gallery (UK), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (JP), and Videotage (HK). Her experimental films have received multiple international awards.
Across media, her practice is guided by a belief in creating spaces that invite reflection, relationality, and sensory engagement. Moltke-Leth works independently and continues to explore new territories, integrating material, light, sound, and time into visual forms that resonate with both the individual and the collective experience.
AWARDS
- Best International Film Award at Paris Film Art Festival to the film ‘I c’ November 2024
- Best Experimental Film, at Montreal Independent Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Canada, March 2023
- Best Environmental Film, at Montreal Independent Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Canada, March 2023
- Best Experimental Short Film, at Izmit International Short Film Festival to the film ‘I c’ in Turkey, November 2022
- Best Experimental Film, at Manchester Film Festival, to the film ‘I c’, United Kingdom, 2022
- The Next Great Filmmaker Award, Berkshire International Film Festival, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, US, 2017
- Best Experimental Film, Manchester Film Festival, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, United Kingdom, 2017
- The Audience Award, Be a Better Being, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, Germany, 2016
- International Public’s Selection Award, Festival Silêncio, to the film ‘Running Through Life’,Portugal, 2016
- Best Short Award (Minister’s Award, the Ministry of Environment), Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, to the film ‘Running Through Life’, Japan, 2016
- J-WAVE Award, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2016, to the film ‘Running Through Life’,Japan, 2016
- Special Merits, Faces of Wisdom Film, to the film ‘Beyond Words’, 2014
- Best Danish Short Fiction, Odense International Film Festival, to the film ‘Sporenstregs’, Denmark, 2007
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXIBITIONS
- The Darling Cph, Denmark, 2025
- ‘Mirroring’ Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025
- ‘European Silk Road,’ ESP App, Callias Foundation, Germany, 2022
- Saul Hay Gallery, United Kingdom, 2022
- ‘Who or What is God Now?,’ DGI-Byen, Denmark, 2019-2020
- Saul Hay Gallery, United Kingdom, 2017
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan, 2016
- ‘Videotage’, Hong Kong, 2016
- Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, United Kingdom, 2016
Artistic and avant-garde film festivals
- Paris Film Art Festival, France, 2024
- Videoart.Ist International Video Art Screening Program in Turkey, 2023
- 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA, 2017
- Artcroft Film and Video Festival, Kentucky, USA, 2016
Poetry film festivals
- Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
- Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2022
- Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Nanjing, China, 2018.
- Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, 2017
- Zebra Poesiefilmclub, Haus für Poesie Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster/Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Festival Silêncio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
- Zebra Poesiefilmclub, Haus für Poesie Berlin, 2016
- DOCtorCLIP, Roma International Poetry Film Festival, Rome, Italy, 2015
- Festival Silêncio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
- Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster, Germany, 2015
- Oslo Internasjonale Poesifestival, Oslo, Norway, 2015
- Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2014
- Filmpoem Festival, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2014
- Faces of Wisdom Film competition, 2014
Selected film festivals
- New York City Independent Film Festival, 2023
- Montreal Independent Film Festival, 2023
- Chicago Indie Film Award, 2022
- Beirut Shorts International Film Festival, 2022
- Spicy Indie International Film Festival, 2022
- Izmit International Short Film Festival (IISFF) Turkey, 2022
- Paris Independent Film Festival, France, 2022
- Green Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, 2022
- International Short Film Festival, Cyprus, 2022
- Next Generation Indie Film Award in Hollywood, USA, 2022
- Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2022
- 5th Long Night, Zukunft am Ostkreuz, Berlin, Germany, 2017
- 12th Berkshire International Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA, 2017
- Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2017
- interfilm, 32nd International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Be a Better Being Short Film Competition and Academic Forum, Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Nordic International Film Festival, New York City, USA, 2016
- 6th International Short Film Festival, Cyprus, 2016
- Cannes Short Film Festival, Cannes, France, 2016
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
- Culture Unplugged, We Speak Here film festival, 2012
- IFEMA Filmfestival, Sweden, 2008
- Nordisk Panorama Oulu, Finland, 2007
- Odense International Film Festival August, Odense, Denmark, 2007
- Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), Denmark, 2006
- FEST, Festival Novos Cineastas Novo Cinema, Portugal, 2006
- 6th Young Guns Film Festival, Singapore, 2006
- The 24th Ethnographic Film Panorama (Bilan du Film Ethnographique), France, 2005
- Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, Poitiers International Film Schools Festival, France, 2005
- IV Sant-Petersburg Open Film Festival, Russia, 2005
- Femmina International Filmfestival, Sweden, 2005
- The 34th Roshd International Film Festival, Iran, 2004
Other festivals etc. and online platforms
- Paris Fashion Week, Paris, France, 2022
- Community Space, Glasgow, Scotland, 2021
- Pow Festival (Power of Women Festival Copenhagen), Denmark, 2019
- Pow Festival (Power of Women Festival Copenhagen), Denmark, 2017
- Talk Town, National Library of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
- Copenhagen Fashion Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
RADIO & DJ
Between 1994-2000, Helene Moltke-Leth’s life was all about electronic music. She worked as a DJ and radio presenter on her own show at DR P3 (The Danish Broadcasting Corporation). Helene founded the nightclub Klub Vega in Copenhagen, worked as a house music editor and wrote for the music magazine F100. Here is a few examples from that period of time.
Journalism for the music magazine F100
Interview with DJ Sneak for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 03 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth.
Journalism for the music magazine F100
Interview with Tobias Von Hofsten for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 01 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth
PRESS
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Berlingske
2017
Politiken
Berkshire International Film Festival
Confidentials Manchester
2015
Radio 24/7
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Det DUR, afsnit 30
RADIO & DJ
Between 1994-2000, Helene Moltke-Leth’s life was all about electronic music. She worked as a DJ and radio presenter on her own show at DR P3 (The Danish Broadcasting Corporation). Helene founded the nightclub Klub Vega in Copenhagen, worked as a house music editor and wrote for the music magazine F100. Here is a few examples from that period of time.