Kiki Malaeru

Kiki Malaeru is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, model, and photographer.
Her work lives at the intersection of vulnerability and motion, a space where the body becomes both subject and language, and the photograph becomes a page torn from a private journal.
Her journey into visual art began through performance.
After years in front of the camera for music videos and television commercials, she slowly migrated from subject to author.
Photography gave her that freedom.
Self-portraiture gave her the mirror.
The images she creates are not posed so much as they are felt.
She is drawn to grain, blur, and available light, the imperfections that remind us a real moment was present.
She works across nude, boudoir, portrait, and conceptual photography, treating the body not as spectacle but as landscape; intimate, complex, and quietly honest.
Movement shapes everything she makes.

As a full-time travelling artist across Europe, she carries her practice with her like a second skin. Each country, each collaboration, each solitude becomes material. The photographs she makes are love letters to transience.
Her writing runs parallel to her visual work. Since 2010 she has written poetry and narrative prose, drawn almost entirely from th...

2026 Polaroid Series · Instant Art Gallery, Arles, France (group exhibition)
2025 Polaroid Series · Instant Art Gallery, Paris, France (group exhibition)
2025 Kiki-Work in Progress · Smilevo, Macedonia (coauthor)
2025 Analog Series · Vienna, Austria (group exhibition)
2025 Analog Series · Timișoara, Romania (group exhibition)
2023 Analog Series · Bucharest, Romania (solo exhibition)