The Butterfly / Oslo 2025

The
Butterfly

A light sculpture created from a Ukrainian drone shot down on the frontline.

Selected works

01 / Selected works

Recent practice

Installations dedicated to Ukrainian women serving in the military and to women’s participation in the war.

Created from used ammunition and military artefacts, the works reflect the experience, courage and vulnerability of Ukrainian women in wartime. Objects designed for destruction are transformed through colour, fabric and intimate everyday forms, preserving the material memory of war while affirming women’s strength and resilience.

Red installation made from an ammunition box with high-heeled shoesHigh CalibreAmmunition installation
Red textile installation incorporating a military artefactThe Wound Wears SilkAmmunition installation
White and pink sculptural installation on an ammunition boxSweet DefenceAmmunition installation
Pink sculptural installation with cosmetics and a shell casingBeauty ArsenalShell casing · mixed media
Breasts installation made from ammunition containersBreastsAmmunition installation · mixed media

02 / Archive

Works by series

03 / Exhibitions

Oslo, 2025

Personal exhibition at Sheffield 5 Gallery, Oslo, Norway.

The exhibition brought together painting, collage and video exploring femininity, vulnerability, war and resilience — a distinctly female perspective on contemporary reality.

Aleksandra Klitina beside an artwork at her Oslo exhibition
Guests at the Oslo exhibition
Installation view in Oslo
Video projection and artwork at the exhibition
Artwork shown at the Oslo exhibition

Personal exhibition, Sheffield 5 Gallery

Oslo, Norway

“Lightless”, Kunstverein Bad Aibling

Bad Aibling, Germany

Art project during the Venice Biennale

Venice, Italy

Modern Art Research Institute of Ukraine

Kyiv, Ukraine

04 / About

Aleksandra
Klitina

Aleksandra Klitina beside one of her paintings

Aleksandra Klitina is a Ukrainian contemporary artist whose practice combines painting, collage, unconventional materials and installation.

Her work examines the female body, identity and power alongside the psychological and social effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Everyday and found materials become carriers of memory, irony and resistance.

Across intimate images and politically direct gestures, Klitina explores how private experience is reshaped by collective trauma — and how vulnerability can become a form of strength.

05 / Contact

Get in touch

For exhibitions, collaborations and acquisitions.

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