Alina Kleytman was born in 1991 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 2009 she has participated in exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, was a nominee of the Pinchuk Art Prize 2011 and a winner of the Non Stop Media Biennial. In 2010, Alina in the building of the former stables opened her own gallery-laboratory where she curated a lot of projects. Alina received her Bachelor's degree in the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in the specialty of Monumental Sculpture in 2012. In 2013 she curated the project Room Temperature within the framework of Unrespectable of Boris Mikhailov. From 2012 to 2015, she studied at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in the studio "Video Art and Installation" and also "Photography, Sculpture, Video". In 2015 Alina won the Pinchuk ArtCentre Special Prize for young artists. She won the Public Choice Award at the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize 2018.
In 2021 together with Nikita Kadan and Bogdana Kosmina created the curatorial group Wet Hole. Together they founded Dzherelo Art Pavilion - a 24/7 public art space and made Bodys in the City program 2021-2022.
Alina creates several queer performance shows - Coming out / with IZOLYATSIA/200-2021, Extraordinary Queer Cabaret Magic Infant / with Bogdana Kosmina and Bassiani club, Once Upon a Queer /with IZOLYATSIA/in process/.
Currently, she works with sculpture, and lives and works in Kyiv.
Selected exhibitions:
2019
I’M THE WORST? LOOK AT ME, Kyiv Art Week Kyiv
KHARKOW SCHOOL, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
2018
A Space of One's Own, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv
Vladey Monumental, Ekaterina Culture Foundation, Moscow
20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentrePrize 2018, Kyiv
Permanent Revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Today I’m a Mermaid. Tomorrow I’ll Be a Unicorn, Riga Photography Biennial
Ha city, National Art Museum of Ukraine Kiev
2017
Hooray! Sculpture!, Central Exhibition Hall MANEGE, St. Petersburg
BENTEGA INDEPENDENT KIEV SCENE, SALÒ, Paris
REHEARSALS OF PLEASURE, Regina Gallery, Moscow
VERSUS , PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
2016
HOORAY! SCULPTURE!, Contemporary Art Center WINZAVOD, Moscow
2015
20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2015, Kyiv
Biennale Kiev Kyiv School ,Kiev
2014
BAROCCO 2014, Triumph gallery Moscow
MOSCOW CALLING, Ekaterina Culture Foundation Moscow
SHAVE MY HEART, Ermilov Contemporary Art Center Kharkov
2013
CHERNUKHA, Special project of 5 Moscow biennale, RuArts gallery, Moscow
Ukrainian news, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
ROOM TEMPERATURE, the framework of UNRESPECTABLE Boris Mikhailov, Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkov
THE ONE MINUTES, Museum of Contemporary Art GARAGE, Moscow
SCULPTURE PRO SCULPTURE, Ermilov Contemporary Art Center Kharkov
24 ru/nl, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
2012
CONSTRACTION, Ermilov Contemporary Art Center Kharkov
ENVIRONMENT, Contemporary Art Center Fabrika Moscow
ISOLATED GENDER, Contemporary Art Center Isolation Donetsk
2011
CAPTURE, PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011, Kiev
2010
MENSTRUATION TRANSFORMATION, Municipal Art Gallery Kharkov
GMO, curatorial project own gallery Y ROZU Kharkov
2009
ART A PRIORI: ACTUAL HISTORIES, Art museum Kharkov
NUMBERS, together with Nikolay Ridniy, Ludmila Bereznitska Gallery Kiev