Alevtina Kakhidze
Alevtina Kakhidze, born in Eastern Ukraine, is an artist and writer. Based in Muzychi, Ukraine, 19 kilometers from the city capital of Kyiv, Kakhidze is a conceptual artist who works with ideas of consumption, consumerism and power. She studied at the Kyiv National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture (1999-2004) and in the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2004-2006). Since 2002 she has exhibited her work in Ukraine as well as internationally. Kakhidze declares that her cultural identity includes parts of Ukrainian, Georgian and West European mentalities. She inherited her Georgian surname from her father, and was raised within Russian culture, in its Soviet incarnation.
She has been an active supporter of the Maydan movements during winter 2013-2014. The information war between Ukraine and Russia, West and East forms the complex basis of her work in the recent years. She participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including Manifesta 10 (2014) and the 6th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary art (2015). Alevtina Kakhidze was a guest speaker for the Framer Framed event Impossible Dialogues (20160, deconstructing the differences between memories/heritage of Eastern and Western Europe, supported by Erste Stiftung and Europe by People. In 2022 she contributed to Errant Journal No. 4, States of Statelessness.
