Johanna Calle
As a professional Colombian artist, Johanna Calle (Bogotá, 1965) has focused her art practice on experimental drawing and photography for the past decades.
She lives and works in Bogotá, D.C. Colombia, South America. Married to Julio César Pérez Navarrete, with whom she shares and enjoyes making discoveries and research projects. Cofounders of Archivos Pérez & Calle, a private enterprise that buys and sells vintage, analog photographic Colombian and Latin American archives on topics such as history, anthropology, ethnography and the vernacular. Acquisitions involve travelling or visiting antique book stores, antique shops, auction houses and flea markets followed by practical antropological explorations in libraries, museums or interviewing experts.
Their fields of study, findings, insights and discussions on photographic data often provide central information and materials she later addresses in her art works.
Johanna Calle has exhibited her works nationally and internationally at solo and group exhibitions. She has participated at Sydney, Sao Paulo, Istambul, Site, Mercosur, Cuenca Biennials. Works in Museum collections of: MoMA, MFAH, Fondation Cartier, Tate Modern, Banco de la República, Museo Nacional, Blanton, Molaa, Phoenix, MAmBA, TEORéTica, Inelcom, Cisneros and The Art Institute of Chicago. In addition the National Bank of Colombia minted new coins based on two of her drawings.
„My work is a way of exploring and understanding the complexities of human
existence and the structures that shape our lives. Through my art, I aim to shed
light on social issues and provoke thought and dialogue.“ ~Johanna Calle
Johanna Calle
Conuco I, 2024, typewritten text on old accounting document, 89x115 cm
Johanna Calle
Traducciones (Cinchona Moritziana K), 2009, wire and ink on cardboard, 50,7 x 38,3 cm
Johanna Calle
Perspectivas I (negra), 2023, shaped wire, 33,5 x 23 cm
Johanna Calle
taquigráfica, 2006, ink on paper, 21 x 29,5cm
Johanna Calle
Tomo (Sociologia General), 2017, silkscreen and letraset on antique homemade book cover,33,1 x 46,8 cm
Johanna Calle
Cecropias Telenitidas, 2024, typewritten text on old accounting document, 43 x 53,5 cm
Johanna Calle
Enclaves (2), 2024, drawing on an antique map from the 19th century, 89 x 59,5 cm
Johanna Calle
Perímetros (W.S.M), 2021, typed written text on vintage notarial ledger, 41,5 x 83 cm
