Alina Kleytman, NIGHTMARE BELL, 2023, Courtesy the Artist and Gunia Nowik Gallery
Jędrzej Bieńko, Horizon, 2025, Courtesy the Artist and Gunia Nowik Gallery
Gunia Nowik Gallery presents works by Alina Kleytman and Jędrzej Bieńko. The booth constructs an immersive environment where sculpture and painting converge around corporeality, trauma, and transformation. Kleytman’s visceral, seductive sculptures, balancing dark irony and mourning, confront Bieńko’s atmospheric paintings, whose spectral forms and raw linen surfaces act as membrane and stage. Together they construct a charged, uncanny space where memory, violence, and desire intertwine.
Alina Kleytman (b. 1991, Kharkiv) is a visual artist and performer whose practice spans sculpture, video art, and curatorial projects. Defining her approach as “hysterical realism,” she transforms everyday and war-derived materials into grotesque, fantastical forms addressing violence, power, and the body. Co-founder of Dzherelo Art Pavilion in Kyiv, she lives and works in Torino.
Jędrzej Bieńko (b. 2000, Warsaw) is a painter combining a refined airbrush technique with symbolic imagery and a muted, earthy palette. A 2025 graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he paints on raw linen, creating dreamlike scenes where humans, animals, and nature dissolve into meditations on intimacy and interdependence. He lives and works in Warsaw.