The book Alina Kleytman. THE GREATEST SHOW extends the life of the exhibition at Gunia Nowik Gallery (May 23 – June 28, 2025). THE GREATEST SHOW brings together recent works, expanding on Kleytman’s long-standing interest in mythmaking and the theatricality of power. Through a constellation of hybrid objects — at once seductive and grotesque, ceremonial and absurd — Kleytman examines the ways violence is beautified, fetishized, and consumed. This deeply personal yet highly political body of work reflects on the mechanisms of control, submission, and survival in a world marked by conflict, wars, and crisis.
Here the audioguide tracks (in English) open another way into THE GREATEST SHOW.
Created by the artist for each work, they echo the exhibition and the book alike, offering both memory and afterlife.
Alina Kleytman
An Introduction
to The Greatest Show
Alina Kleytman
NIGHTMARE BELL, 2023
body bags, metal, fabric, plastic hair
140 x 130 x 130 cm
Alina Kleytman
EPITAPH (from the series ENDLESS SHINE OF HUMAN VIOLENCE), 2023
body bags, prosthesis plastic, hair
250 x 250 x 50 cm
Alina Kleytman
ELON (from the series PETS), 2025
medical plastic
178 x 50 x 86 cm
Alina Kleytman
MARCO (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic
105 x 55 x 62 cm
Alina Kleytman
CLARA SHARPNOSE (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic, fabric
129 x 84 x 64 cm
Alina Kleytman
ONE OF (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic
116 x 37 x 84 cm
Alina Kleytman
SOLDIER'S LEG (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
103 x 140 x 72 cm
Alina Kleytman
BARONESS'S FACE (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
180 x 205 x 180 cm
Alina Kleytman
RAPHAEL (from the series PETS), 2025
medical plastic
127 x 120 x 43 cm
Alina Kleytman
LAWYER'S ELBOW I (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, recycled beaver fur
89 x 61 x 22 cm
Alina Kleytman
SAD (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
84 x 107 x 132 cm
Alina Kleytman
LAWYER'S ELBOW II (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
53 x 110 x 80 cm
Alina Kleytman
FAT EMMY (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic
73 x 38 x 41 cm
Alina Kleytman
PEDRO (from the series PETS), 2025
medical plastic
40 x 174 x 54 cm
Alina Kleytman
MR RUFFLE (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic, fabric
169 x 81 x 71 cm
Alina Kleytman
PRINCIPLES (from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
210 x 240 cm
Alina Kleytman
ANAL UMBRELLA, 2022
concrete, plastic, glass
180 x 80 x 63 cm
Alina Kleytman
STEVE (from the series SERVANTS), 2025
body bags, plastic
120 x 38 x 58 cm
Alina Kleytman
KONSTANCIA (from the series PETS), 2025
medical plastic
183 x 82 x 54 cm
Alina Kleytman
LAST WARNING, 2025
body bags, plastic
340 x 300 cm
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