Lasse Lecklin

Photography

Biography: Lasse Lecklin

Lasse Lecklin (b. 1982) is a Finnish photographer from Helsinki.

Identity of a place, constructed environment and the connection of human being to the nature are in the core of his interest. His mediums are photography and video, and he works often on the field between documentary and conceptual art. Seriality and precision are distinctive for his work.

Master of Arts in photography in 2015 from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Lecklin has previously also studied photojournalism at Tampere University, photography in Konstfack College of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm and in the School of Visual Arts in New York, and fine arts at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Lasse Lecklin’s first solo shows took place in 2012. His works have been displayed at several group exhibitions and festivals in Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Besides working on his personal projects Lecklin does commissioned work for press and commercial use, focusing on portraits, food & wine as well as travel stories and reportages.

His previous solo exhibition entitled Atmorelational, was on view at the Gallery Forum Box in Helsinki, March–April, 2017. More recently his series The Most Beautiful Nuclear Power Plants in Europe was shown at Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania, at M. Žilinskas Art Gallery in M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, September–October 2018 and during 2019 video works at the Turku Kunsthalle, Finland and Frauen Museum in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Lecklin's solo exhibition Crossings was shown at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki over the summer 2020, and then traveled Gallery Uusi Kipinä in Lahti and to Photo Centre Nykyaika in Tampere, Finland, in autumn 2020. His work was also shown at the reGeneration4 group exhibition in Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, over the summer 2020, and is part of the traveling exhibition which will continue to tour in different countries.

In 2021 his works have been seen around Finland in the exhibition Kenen luonto? / Whose Nature? in Jyväskylä Art Museum, Turku Kunsthalle, Northen Photo Center in Oulu and Lapua Cultural Centre, and also in 1968/2021/2068 in Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa, Finland. In 2021 Lecklin exhibited also his new solo show about land transformation and mining industry in a show entitled The Black Hole, that was first opened in November 2021 at the gallery Hippolyte Korjaamo in Helsinki.

Right now Lecklin's work may be seen in Glasgow, UK as part of the show Forever Changes at Street Level Photoworks until 30th January 2022, and next up will be and as part of Whose Nature? at the Mikkeli Photographic Centre in Finland, in March 2022.