Alevtina Kakhidze
Born 1973 in Zhdanovka, Donetsk region, USSR.
Based in Muzychi, Ukraine, 26 kilometers from the city capital of Kyiv. Having grown up in the Donetsk region of Ukraine (since 1991), known for coal mining, she has experienced Ukraine’s abrupt and chaotic changes from the days of the USSR to the imbalanced environment after, including undeclared war between Russia and Ukraine that it is going on today.
Alevtina Kakhidze attended the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kiev (1999-2004) and the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands (2004-2006). She is United Nations Tolerance Envoy in Ukraine since 2018, the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award winner in 2008, first prize winner of the Competition for Young Curators and Artists, Kyiv, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA in 2002.
SOLO art exhibitions
2022
«Génération de femmes et de plantes», Ambassade d'Ukraine en France, Paris2020
AboutCopyRights, Auction House Korners, KyivNews: Room For Improving future, Room 46, Aarhus, Denmark
2019
Let The garden Be Without War, America House, Kyiv2018
Room For Improved Futures: Adult Garden, Room 46, Aarhus, Denmark2017
I Still Draw about Love, Plant and Things, Bozar, Brussels2014
TV Studios / Rooms Without Doors, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv2013
It Only Looks The Same, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague2012
I Can Not Draw Without Words, online2011
In Little Place Any Corner Can Be Seen As Public, Labirynt, Lublin, PLYou Are At Home Of Vladimir Alevtina Suzi Penelopa, The Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv
2009
Every Week A New, Iaspis, Stockholm2008
Shopping, The Ya Gallery Art Centre, KyivGloves, KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen
2005
I Don’t Need It/I Want It, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL2002
Invitation To Australia, Or, A One-Story Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, KyivPerformances and lectures
2022
Spacer po Irpieniu z Alevtiną Kakhidze, Gdańsk Miasto Literatury, PolandDen Krieg dokumentieren-Ukraine 2014-2022, Universitat Zurich
A Testimony Of A Ukrainian Artist, Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists, Stockholm
La Méthode de construction de la vérité politique, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“AZBUKA of plants STRIKES BACK to humans”, Pickle Bar, Berlin
Honest Conversation On Russia, Solidarny Dom Kultury “Slonecznik”, Warsaw
2021
Regatta on Lybid River, within Labyrinthe Blue (NGO Zvidcy)Legal Fairy, zoom, in collaboration with Anatolii Belov and Alexander Krolikowski
2020
Construct Gender with HeForShe, UNWomenSeeds Of Ukraine with SetArtLab, Kyiv
2019
4 stories of Ukrainian Performance, Kyiv: PinchukArtCentreTour Between Lie and Truth, through historical Kyiv district – Podil, Kyiv: Metamodern Arts Festival Kyiv
The Method Of Construction Political Truth, Kyiv: TheNakedRoom,
2018
Maidan/An Unfinished Revolution, EvaGelische Academie Tutzing, GermanyGiving A Promise, Biennale of Trust, Lviv, Ukraine
2017
Bottle for Gardeners, series on performances during residency program “Mezha” (Border Line), initiated by Garden City NGOAbout the Wars, Colorado Beatles, Chicken and Slugs, Stuttgart (Germany): Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Which Lie on Ending of The War in Ukraine is More Beautiful and Artsy Correct?, Brussels: Bozar
2016
How To Draw War, EvaGelische Academie Tutzing, GermanyExercises on Language, Kyiv: Mystetskyi Arsenal
About Shoots Power and The war, Poland: Lublin city festival
Artists Are Pour But Cool, in a frame Art And Mission for businesses, Kyiv: M17, contemporary art center
Feast in Shot Stories: Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015
Less Georgian/More Georgian in frame of South Caucasus Contemporary, Tbilisi Dance&Experimental Art festival in Tbilisi Performance Days: Nectar GalleryAll Times News, series of performances: 6th Moscow Biennale
2014
Strawberry Andreevna (till 2019), on FacebookMy Husband Failed In Love, on Facebook
“Where The Wild Things Are” Manifesta 10, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
Garden of Symbioses in frame SPACES: Architecture of Common, CSM/ Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, KyivGold On The beach, Less Georgian/More Georgian, Transkaukazja, Kyiv
2012
Possible, A Miracle, series of performances in the program of urban transformations generation celebration 2012 by Garage Gang, Crimea, UkraineDRAWING CLASS FOR COLLECTORS, within 7th Berlin Biennale: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
A WALK with Duchamp or The Rendezvous”, within the special project of ARSENALE 2012 DOUBLE GAME: DIALOGUE AND CONFRONTATION, Kyiv
On Two Chairs, a project curated by OFENZYVA MISSION (UA), Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv
2011
Candice Breitz + I, in frame of You+I /Portraits Of Artist, PinchukArtCentre, KyivPoem for Duchamp, Art Republic Gallery, Kyiv
Autobiography by Females, Cultural Project, Kyiv
Family Story, festival Street Voices by Garage Gang, Kyiv
2010
The evolution of consumer desire developed at about ten times its usual speed, Labirynt, Bialystok, PL Galeria Arsenal, Open House Iaspis, StockholmDedicated to Joanna, Les Kurbas Theatre, Kyiv
Marital Negotiations, Laboratorium: On A-I-R, Warsaw
I’m late for a plane that’s impossible to be late for with the support of Rinat Akhmetov Foundation for the Development of Ukraine, 2 day media performance
I can take your dog for a walk at pre-opening of Ya Gallery Art Centre, Dnipropetrovsk, UA
I can take your dog for a walk within Joanna Warsza's fourth seminar of the NON-THEATRE series, The New Theatre in the New Great World, Warsaw
2009
A Position Based On Weakness, Iaspis, Stockholm2008
Proper behavior is being artist, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv2006
Only For Men, or, My beloved, appear in the mirror, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv2004
I can be a girl with blue eyes, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NLGroup art exhibitions
2022
Heart of Earth, Mystetskyi Arsenal" National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, KyivThe 8th Artishok Biennial BOTANICAL WITNESSES, Tallinn
Manifesta 14, Prishtina
UKRAINE! UNMUTED! 5 Triennial of contemporary Ukrainian art Ukrainian Cross-Section, Kaunas, Lithuania
DREAMS ABOUT EUROPE, GALERIE OSCAR E. V., Chemnitz, Germany
From The Battlefield, Stichting SEA Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Wartime Art Archive, TheNakedRoom, Kyiv
WAR DIARIES, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia
WAR DIARIES, Gallery Artbeat 4710 E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi
WOMEN AT WAR, Fridman Gallery, NY, USA
The Captured House, WeGil, Rom
The Captured House, art center Alte Münze, Berlin
Artists Support Ukraine, Sølvberget bibliotek og kulturhus, Flekkefjord, Norway
2021
30х30.Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Ukrainian Dim, KyivFuturespective, M17, Kyiv
Inter/action, Kooperativ, Kyiv
Voicing The Silence, curated by Creative Associations of Curators TOK, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
Other Nature, The Green Theatre, Odesa, UA
Global Art Festival, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, USA
2020
KyivArtWeek, onlineARTEFACT CHORNOBYL 34, https://www.artefact.live/
Brudershaft, Kyiv, Dnipro, UA
La Maison de L’ours, Paris
Survival Kit 11: Being Safe is Scary, Latvian Centre For Contemporary Art, Riga
2019
There Is No Blood In Garden. Plants Bleed Green Light Sap, Parallel Program Of II Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, UkraineCareful With That Axe, Eugene, Art Zavod Platforma, Kyiv
THE SHADOW OF DREAM* CAST UPON GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE
(* Dream - is literary translation of Mriya — Ukrainian aircraft, the biggest in the world), Ukrainian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale
2018
A Space of One's Own, PinchukArtCentre, KyivParty Content, Liege, Belgium
Reciprosity Design Liege, Nadja Vilenne Galerie, Belgium
Permanent Revolution Ukrainian Art Today, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest
Behind The Scene, Odesa, Ukraine: Invogue gallery & UART
States Of Control, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki
Reopens, M HKA, Museum of contemporary art Antwerp, Belgium
On Border Line, after residency program “Mezha” (Border Line), initiated by NGO Garden City
2017
Department of sensitivity in Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages in Bakhmut as part of Zmina with Izolyatsia, Platform for Cultural Initiative, UkraineParade du oui et du non & cinema en pieces detachees, Centre d’art Les Capucins, Embrun
Post-Peace, Nest Den Haag, group curated by Katia Kruppenikova, Hague
Post-Peace, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, group Curated by Katia Kruppenikova, Stuttgart, Germany
2016
Meshes of Afternoon, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NorwayTrotz Allem, Polnisches Institute Dusseldorf, Germany
Trans People, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Prevention Of Occupation with Metamisto organized by Garag Gang, Slovyansk, Ukraine
Bud’Mo! BWA Zielona Gora, Zielena Gora, Poland
2014
Through Maidan and Beyond, Kyiv Contemporary Art Scene, ViennaArtist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Places. Laureates of K. Malevich Award, National Muzeum of Modern Art, Kyiv; Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2013
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivPRADA PRAVDA, ART IST KUKU NU UT, Tartu, Estonia
HisHers http://womanorial.com/hishers/
Ukrainian News, The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2012
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivJourney to the East, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, PL, Mocak, Krakov, PL
INDEPENDENT, Mystetskyi Arsena, Kyiv
Mr. Gold, The Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv
Space Odyssey 2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
Working for change: Moroccan Pavilion project at the 54th Venice Biennial, IT: Venice (Spazio Punch)
Konsumera Mera, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, SE
2011
Material Conversation, Grimmuseum, BerlinKonsumera MERA, Norrkoping Konstmuseum, Norrkoping, Sweden
2010
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivCash Flow, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm
IF, Museum for Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm, Russia
Podrozh Na Wschod The Journey To The East, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland, Mocak, Krakow, Poland, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2009
Forms of Seduction, Wetterling Gallery as part of the International Curatorial Management Education of Stockholm University, StockholmFuture Was Yesterday, Student Centre in Zagreb CULTURE OF CHANGE, Zagreb
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Mini-art, The Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv
1989–2009: Turbulent World – Telling Time. A Goethe Institute exhibition, Eastern European and Central Asian region: Berlin, Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk
2008
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivEndless Sphere, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Fresh Blood, Diehl+Gallery One, Moscow
Tranzit, The Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv
New Ukrainian Language, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Satellite Tunes, Hungarian Univercity of Arts, Budapest
2007
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivExteriors, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kyiv
Unknown Pleasures, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
2006
Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen, Karas Gallery, KyivGlobal, Kunstfort, centrum voor actuele kunst Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
How To Do Things? — In the Middle of (No)where..., SOX 36, Berlin
How To Do Things? — In the Middle of (No)where..., Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2005
Untitled excerpts, NadiaVilenne galerie, Liege, BelgiumStepping out, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
For and from, Metropole Galleries Kent, Great Britain
Borshch, video art z Ukrainy, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
Continental Breakfast / Kontinentalni zajtrk Ljubljana, Memory (W)hole Ljubljana, Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana
Private property, Wizytujaca gallery, Warszawa
2003
Tenderness, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA Kyiv, KyivOpen theses chair & dictionary of forgotten metaphors (in collaboration with Pavel Braila), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2002
Three Categories of Things & Ideal Study, KSA:K, Tipova, Moldova2000
Resultate 2000, Palace Wittgenstein, WienParticipated projects
2022
Ukraińskie artystki przeciwko wojnie, Vogue: Polska2021
UFW, with Oleksiy SaiPolitical studies, within Anna Bilivitina and Cultural Institution Mizhvukhamy
Art In Gardens, within The Garden City NGO
2020
SvoyaHope, Vogue
Social immunity, online project
Series of drawings for Not A Private Matters, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Eastern Ukraine with Amnesty International
Community Cultural Bus with Izolyatsia
LESIA KHOMENKO: SEVERAL STORIES AND OBJECTS, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv
2017
Gender IQ for HeForShe UkraineFor Parfum Buro Gallery with 11 Worlds and 4 Feelings, Kiev
2014
Kristina Norman IRON ARCH for Manifesta 10, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art2010
«Night in museum» with the projects Marital negotiations part 1, part 2 and Fabric. Polish version Warsaw: Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek UjazdowskiAnatomia Ulicy: Mokotowska, Fundacja Bec Zmiana Zaprasza, Warsaw
2009
Revolutionary moments, Kyiv2007 until now
«KrAM», web based art magazine published in Ukraine www.kram.in.ua
2007
Faculty of invisibility, department of shameCurated projects
2019 till now
Adult Garden, different media2020
A Village Tower, gardens and music, Muzychi Village2018
Book Fuorchette with Kateryna Svirgunenko and Izone, KyivNevidomi (unknown) with Olexandr Mykhed for Art Huss Publishing House, Kyiv
2013 till now
Hidden program to support local industry and art, Muzychi, Ukraine2012
MuzychiChristmasArtFair, Art House Muzychi, Muzychi, Ya Gallery Art Centre, Dnipropetrovsk, UkraineThe First Twenty Years (by Tobias Rosenberger), The Ya Gallery Art Centre, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
The First Twenty Years (by Tobias Rosenberger), Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kyiv
Book Lunch, series events on artist’s books Kyiv with Kateryna Svirgunenko, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv