A multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, drawing, time-based media, curation, collaborative work, explores complex issues ranging from consumerism to plant culture, and from feminism to living in conflict zones. She is based in Muzhychi, Ukraine, 26 kilometers from Kyiv. Born in 1973 in Zhdanivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine (then the USSR) – an area known for coal mining, it experienced profound and chaotic changes in Ukraine from the Soviet era to the unbalanced environment afterward, including the undeclared war between Russia and Ukraine.

Alevtina Kakhidze attended the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv (1999-2004) and the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands (2004-2006). She is United Nations Tolerance Envoy in Ukraine since 2018, “State of the ART(ist)” as Honorary Mentions by Ars Electronica and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2023), Women in Arts Award – 2023 , UN Women Ukraine, 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).