Johanna Lecklin is a visual artist and film director from Helsinki, Finland. She works with moving image, photography, sound, installation, and participatory art projects. In her recent works she explores narrativity and storytelling. She is interested in experimenting on the border of documentary and fiction. She uses archives and recorded interviews in her research for her moving image work. Her early works are performance videos with a feministic approach, which mimic gestures or habits that reveal power relations. She has also made interviews, video portraits of people.

Lecklin has had several solo exhibitions, for example in Helsinki Kuntshalle, Helsinki, Serlachius Headquaters, Mänttä, Photo North Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Galleria Heino and Forum Box, Helsinki in Finland, in Haninge Art Hall in Sweden and Linna Gallerii in Tallinn, Estonia. She has also taken part in many international group shows and festivals, such as the collection exhibitions in the Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki, the Nordic Pavilion in the City States exhibition in Liverpool Biennial, and she has been invited to the Limerick Biennial EV+ A in Ireland. Her works have been shown for example at Internationale Kurztfilmtage Oberhausen and Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Fest in Germany, Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York in Great Britain and at Tampere International Film Festival in Tampere, Finland. She received the second prize from FOKUS Festival in Kunsthal Nikolaj in Copenhagen, Denmark 2017.

Johanna Lecklin earned a doctoral degree from the University of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Finland, in 2018. She also graduated with an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 and an MA from Helsinki University in 2008, and made an exchange at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London in 1998-1999. Lecklin won the Year Prize of the Artists’ Association of Finland in 2001.