Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе
° 1973
Born in Zhdanivka (UA), lives in Muzychi (UA).
Alevtina Kakhidze was born in Eastern Ukraine. She's been living in Muzychi (near Kyiv) since 1995, except for two years that she spent at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2004-2006). Kakhidze inherited her Georgian surname from her father and was raised within Russian culture, in its Soviet incarnation. Her self-declared multi-level cultural identity includes parts of Ukrainian, Georgian and West European mentalities. She has been an active and visible supporter of the Maidan Uprising in 2013-2014. The practice of Kakhidze is based on personal experiences and imagination, talking about consumer culture, gender, love, culture of protest, experience of war, everyday life, plants, and dogs. The information war between Ukraine and Russia, West and East, together with her multivalent personal biography, formed the complex basis of her work for Manifesta 10 Where The Wild Things Are/Ukraine within the Russian Law. In 2015 Kakhidze researched The Soviet-Finnish War, also called The Winter War, during a residency in HIAP, in order to create a link to the contemporary situation in Eastern Ukraine and the military involvement of Russia there. Also in 2015 Kakhidze participated in the 6th Moscow Biennale.
Works
>Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, The Most Commercial Project / Найкомерційніший проєкт, 2010.Installation, video and drawings and photocopies, variable.
>Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, All Times News / Новини всіх часів, 2015.Installation, mixed media, variable dimensions .
>Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, Plants, 2022.Drawing.
>Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, Curtain for Future / Завіса для майбутнього, 2022.Textile, textile, 2 x 80 x ... cm.
>Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, Visual Diary on Wartime / Візуальний щоденник воєнного часу , 2022.Digital image, ink on paper.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine. 06 May 2022 - 28 August 2022.
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine – Small and Big Stories. 06 May 2022 - 19 June 2022.
> Exhibition: Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness. 05 May 2022 - 21 August 2022.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part I: Thinking Visually. 28 April 2017 - 25 June 2017.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: When Faith Moves Mountains. 17 July 2022 - 09 October 2022.
> Exhibition: Worth Fighting For. 14 November 2022 - 14 December 2022.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2016 [Acquisitions 2016].
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> Ensemble: IMAGINE UKRAINE - Exhibitions.
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> Ensemble: In Solidarity with Ukraine.
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> Ensemble: Landscape.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Solidarity.
> Ensemble: Thinking Visually.
> Ensemble: Worth Fighting For.
> Ensemble: Уяви Україну – Маленькі та великі історії / Imagine Ukraine – Small and Big Stories.
> Ensemble: Уяви Україну – Мистецтво як критичне ставлення / Imagine Ukraine – Art as a Critical Attitude.
> Ensemble: Уяви Україну – Митець як свідок / Imagine Ukraine – The Artist as a Witness.