Johanna Lecklin works in the field of video, film and photography and she has expanded her practice towards live art recently. She is experimenting with a fragmented use of narrative, with voice-over, with multiple projections and with a combination of different materials such as Super 8, 16 mm film and digital video in her videos and moving image installations. She also makes interviews; video portraits of people. These works are on the border of documentary and fiction. Some of her works can be seen as filmed performances, where the performer is commanded by a voice-over coming from an invisible source. Especially her early works have a feministic approach and deal with power relations. Her Story Café project is exploring communities on both local and global level. She collects people's stories and shows stories that she has recoded in previous countries. Her work deals with similarities and differences in culture. She offers people a space for free, where they can come and spend time, tell stories, listen to other storytellers and look at short films based on the recorded stories.
Lecklin's Story Café is exhibited in the collection exhibition It's A Set-up in Kiasma, the Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki between 26 March 2010 and 20 February 2011 and in City States in Liverpool Biennal 18 September - 28 November 2010.