Hertta Kiiski is a multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds within a framework of love, embracing the magical, mythical, and esoteric. Working across photography, film, installation, textiles, and spatial interventions, Kiiski constructs environments that dissolve the boundaries between the natural and the constructed, the everyday and the imaginary. Her work is rooted in collaboration—over the past 13 years, with her daughters, as well as other artist partners, dogs, and more-than-human companions—foregrounding interspecies communication and feminist modes of world-building. Her practice draws on ecology, posthumanist theory, and the unruly textures of lived experience.

Her solo and group exhibitions have been presented at major institutions internationally, including the 14th Gwangju Biennale (Korea), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), the Finnish Museum of Photography, Photographic Centre Peri (Finland), Hafnarfjörður Museum (Iceland), the Icelandic Photo Festival, and NOON Projects (Los Angeles). Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Finnish National Gallery / Kiasma, the Finnish Museum of Photography, and the Turku Art Museum.

Kiiski has published three acclaimed photobooks—Archive Play (2014), I Was an Apple and I Got Peeled (2016), and Otherworld (Kehrer Verlag, 2023)—each further developing her interest in the intersection of photographic storytelling, dream logic, and spatial practice. In addition to her studio practice, she is an educator and is active in several artist-run initiatives. She lives and works in Turku, Finland.