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Helene Moltke-Leth. Photo by Maria Sattrup
Helene Moltke-Leth: Interdisciplinary Visionary Danish Artist
Helene Moltke-Leth (b. 1973, Copenhagen), also known as Zoe Alpha, is a visionary Danish artist whose work spans across film, photography, music, poetry, and visual arts. With a unique interdisciplinary approach, she explores themes such as human existence, culture, spirituality, and the transformative power of art. Helene is known for pushing the boundaries of artistic expression through her engagement with spiritual alchemy, where her works examine inner liberation and how perception, moments, and beauty intertwine with transformation.
Today, Helene primarily focuses on her visual art practice, combining her extensive experience across various media into experimental and philosophically grounded works. Moltke-Leth creates works with a seductive beauty, using mixed media as a tool to reveal the invisible and explore humanity’s metaphysical needs in a modern world where the senses play a central role in understanding our existence.
In her images, she experiments with materials such as photography, resin, pastels, and other materials, and creates works that evoke a deeper connection to the divine in everyday life. Her images are not intended to reproduce the world as it is but to capture the invisible and create a sense of unity with the viewer.
From a young age, Helene was deeply fascinated by the transformative power that arose when modern technology, dance, repetition, and contemplation merged within the burgeoning electronic music subculture that swept across Europe. This fascination led her to become one of Denmark’s first female electronic DJs, playing a central role in the development of Copenhagen’s electronic music scene in the 1990s. She co-founded Klub Vega and had her own radio program on DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), where she introduced innovative international electronic music to a Danish audience. Her musical and creative background laid a solid foundation for her transition into film, where she graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2005.
Helene’s films have been recognized with twelve international awards, and her works have been shown worldwide at prestigious festivals and institutions, including the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. Her artistic language is both visual and poetic, characterized by rhythmic sensuality and a deep analytical insight into contemporary social issues. She creates thought-provoking works that highlight the complexity of life and universal themes such as sustainability, spirituality, and human well-being.
Helene’s commitment to sustainability and environmental issues is reflected in her film Running Through Life, which received two awards at the Save the Earth! competition in 2016 at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, one of Asia’s largest international short film festivals. Her climate art film I C won Best Experimental Film at the Manchester Film Festival in 2022.
With a rare ability to combine aesthetic beauty with deeply relevant topics, she engages her audience in an intimate and reflective way. Her art reflects a European philosophical tradition where the idea of beauty is closely tied to the goodness. Her collaborations with renowned musicians and artists, such as in the work European Silk Road with Hess Is More and Josephine Philip or her collaboration with acclaimed designer/musician/artist Henrik Vibskov in Bibliotheca of Micro Selves for Paris Fashion Week 2022, testify to her constant search for new artistic horizons.
Helene agrees with the artist Marina Abramović, who has stated: “An artist must be willing to dare to fail and allow themselves to get lost in entirely new territories. If an artist succeeds in a particular area and receives recognition from the public and their surroundings, it is tempting to continue and reproduce that success by using the same methods and the same brushstrokes – creating the same type of work. But by doing so, the artist does not fully risk themselves and evolves. The authentic artist changes territory and goes to the land they do not know. Here, they can get lost, risk themselves fully, and that is what makes a great artist.”
Through Helene Moltke-Leth dynamic and constantly evolving artistic production, she invites the audience on a journey toward self-awareness and new perspectives on life, art, and the world we share. As she herself expresses it: “I humbly and compassionately invite people to introspection and to connect with deeper layers of meaning and kindness.”
AWARDS
- 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
- ‘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
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
Artistic and avant-garde film festivals, 2022
- 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
Photos by Zoe Alpha Art Collective
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 Snake for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 03 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth.
Journalism for the music magazine F100
Interview with Tobias Von Hoften for magazine F100 Volume 01 no. 01 in 1998.
Written by Helene Moltke-Leth
Helene Moltke-Leth. Photo by Maria Sattrup
PRESS
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Berlingske
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Politiken
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Confidentials Manchester
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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.
