Johanna Lecklin

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Born: 1972
Lives: Helsinki, Finland

Education
2008 MA, Art history, Helsinki University, Finland
2004- PhD studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2003 MA, Fine Art Media, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1995-99 BA, Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1998-99 Slade School of Fine Art, Fine Art Media, UCL, Erasmus exchange, London, GB


Solo Exhibitions
2007 Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
Linnagallerii, Tallinn, Estonia
Helsinki Kunsthalle, Studio, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Kluuvi Gallery, Gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Photogallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Kluuvi Gallery, Gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland


Group Exhibitions
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND SCREENINGS
2008 Due North, The Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
Story Caf�, Moscow Museum Night, Russia
2007 DE_Contructing, Hotel Mariakapel, group show and residency, Hoorn,
Netherlands
Young Artists� Biennale, curated by Anneli Porri, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 EV+A, Limerick, Ireland
Galleria K, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Helsinki Photo Festival, Muu Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
Art Without Borders, Sanomatalo, Helsinki, Finland
Opening exhibition, Gallery Huuto Uudenmaankatu, Helsinki, Finland
2004 60 seconds, Space-twotentwo and 291 Gallery, London, GB
Fitting Room / Cabine d'essayage, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
Superego, Gallery Huuto Viiskulma, Helsinki, Finland
CityMind, Platform gallery, Vaasa, Finland
2003 ELEVEN, group exhibition, Century Gallery, London, GB
Euroscreen21, PAN Museum, Emmerich, Germany
Titanik, group show, Turku, Finland
Virtaa!, group exhibition, Porvoo Artfactory, Porvoo, Finland
2002 Media Variations, screening, Lothringer 13/Halle, Munich, Germany
Finnish New Video Exhibition, Lontar Gallery, Jakarta and Cemeti Art House, Yogikarta, Indonesia
Born in 1972, group show, curated by Taru Elfving, Helsinki Kunsthalle,
Finland
Photography and Video, Sara Hild�n�s Museum, Tampere, Finland
Selfportrait, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
ROHTO, Helsinki City Museum. curated by Markus Renvall, Tennispalatsi,
Helsinki, Finland
2001 L�Epicerie, Paris, France
En Pleine Air, curated by Guido Curto, Torino, Italy
Rauma Art Museum, screening, Rauma, Finland
Identity, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
106th Anniversary Exhibition of the Artists� Association of Finland, Museum
of Central Finland, Jyv�skyl�, Finland
Young Artists� Exhibition, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
Finland
2000 MA Show, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
105th Anniversary Exhibition of the Artists� Association of Finland, Helsinki,
Kunsthalle, Finland
1999 TEMP, Temporary Media Lab, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
DNA Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Kakelhallen, Lecklin-Tegman Exhibition, Maarianhamina, Finland
1998 NYT, Imatra Art Museum, Imatra, Finland
Centre Arc, Lecklin-Tegman Exhibition, Rufisque, Senegal
1997 Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Lecklin-Kuchka Exhibition, Helsinki,
Finland
1996 Comment, Young Artists� Exhibition, Espoo, Finland
1994 Konseptio, STOA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS
2007 Videolab Lagos 2007, Portugal
2006 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France
Raindance Film festival, London, UK
Video Art Festival Miden, Historic Centre of Kalamata, Greece
View, New Finnish Video Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2005 � bzzz � P�pini�res europ�ennes pour jeunes artistes 18th Festival
International des Programmes Audiovisuels Biarritz, France
2004 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & videofest festival, Kassel, Germany
Mediwave International Film Festival, Gy�r, Hungary
2003 Filmfemmes, Maison des Arts Cr�teil, Paris, France
2002 Contemporary Finnish Video Art, Finnish Institute, Paris. France
Cetinje IV Biennale, L�Epicerie video group show, Montenegro
Videochroniques, Marseille, France
Les Bor�ales, XI Festival d�Art et de Litterature Nordique, Caen, France
Tampere Short Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
View, Festival of New Finnish Video Art, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Finnish Swedish Film Festival, Lume Centre, Helsinki, Finland
7th International Short Film and Video Contest, Antalya Golden Orange
Art and Cultural Foundation, Turkey
Images Passages, video happening, Annecy, France
Situaciones, video festival, Cuenca, Spain
P�rnu 7th International Video and Film Festival, Estonia
2000 Kunstvlaai 4, video festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Grants/Awards
AWARDS
2001 Year Prize of the Artists� Association of Finland


Projects
Story Caf�

I put up a �caf� called Story Caf� in five different cities, in London (2004) during a residency in Artsadmin,in Limerick, Ireland (2006) as part of the ev+a, Limerick Biennale, in Helsinki, Finland (2006) in an artist-run gallery, Gallia Huuto, in Tallinn, Estonia (2007), as part of the Young Artists' Biennale and in Moscow Museum Night 2008. My idea was to offer visitors a cup of coffee in exchange for a story. The motto was Tell a Story � Get a Coffee. I recorded the stories on video.

I look for similarities and differences in the story-telling techniques and in conventions that people use and make them visible through editing the material. The last part of the process includes writing scripts and staging some of the stories. I have made one film, Tomorrow (2007) based on a story recorded in Story Caf�.