Alex Aikiu is a French sound and visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and curator. He develops a multifaceted practice, reseach where musicality dialogues through image, performance, and artistic direction.
In 2025, Alex created Eccho, a contemporary dialogue, and curated the Arts Incohérents sequence for the exhibition "The Return of Alphonse Allais to the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris," featuring a selection of contemporary artists. The show also includes his photographs and collages illustrating the Chat Noir cabaret and its avant-garde spirit.
For the first edition of the Moviment festival at the Centre Pompidou, he collaborated on Rosa Barba's installation Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are as singer and performer. His choreographic short film Hold Me has screened at international festivals, emphasizing the central role of body, movement, and sound. He has exhibited photographs, collages, and paintings in Istanbul, Paris, and at the Rencontres photographiques de Marrakech.
From 2021 to 2024, he curated group shows at Caméléon Boutique/Galerie and Be My Guest Galerie in Paris, introducing his early photographic and plastic works.
He shoots editorial subjects for magazines like Flaunt, Spur, and L'Officiel, exploring portraiture and still life. At the start of his visual career—as journalist, stylist, and art director—he learned photography alongside masters like Rankin, Karl Lagerfeld, Bryan Adams, Lee Jenkins, Horst Diekgerdes, Satoshi Saïkusa, and Jean-Paul Goude for Harper's Bazaar US, V Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Love, Mixte, Citizen K, and visual and sometimes sound campaigns for Chanel, Kenzo, and Lacoste.
Alex Aikiu was born in Bourges and began studying piano, singing, and music theory from an early age. At 21, he signed his first songwriting contract with Sony Columbia France.
His debut musical project, The Aikiu—a trio with Julien Vichnievsky and Barnabé Nuytten—released two EPs (2012– 2013), followed by the album Ghost Youth via Sony/Jive/Epic. Produced by Pilooski, Guillaume Brière, and Eric D. Clark, it features duets with Isabelle Adjani and JD Samson, and topped the French charts.
Since 2022, Alex has been developing a solo musical project.