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Alevtina Kakhidze and Tetiana Khodakivska were invited to the first in a series of community meetings entitled "May the Orchard of Hopes Bloom," organized in Brno by the Terén platform in cooperation with the Resistance Support Club.
The "May the Orchard of Hopes Bloom" event, held in the premises of the former councilors' club, creates a space for meeting, sharing, and listening for those who sympathize with the resistance against growing authoritarianism in the world and for those who have come to Brno to seek refuge from the Russian Federation's imperial invasion of Ukraine.
During this meeting, Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze presented her performance The Method of Constructing Political Truth. In her performance, Alevtina introduced four characters - a tourist, a mediator, a defender, and a gardener. These represent four different ways of seeing the current war in Ukraine.
Director Tetiana Khodakivska spoke at the event about the upcoming film The Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole, on which she is collaborating with Alevtina Khakidze. The film deals with the indoctrination of Ukrainian children abducted to Russia. The authors use interviews and guided drawings, in which the children recall their experiences in re-education camps, to tell the stories of children who were rescued and returned to their families. During their stay in the Czech Republic, Alevtina and Tetiana created animations for the upcoming film, a preview of which can be seen in the video.
Alevtina Kakhidze, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, drawing, time-based media, curation and collaborative works and investigates complex issues from consumerism to plant culture, and from feminism to life in conflict zones. Based in Muzychi, Ukraine, 26 kilometers from the city capital of Kyiv. Having grown up in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, known for coal mining, she has experienced Ukraine’s abrupt and chaotic changes from the days of Russia to the imbalanced environment after, including the 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, “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 prizewinner of the Competition for Young Curators and Artists, Kyiv, Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA in 2002.
Tetiana Khodakivska is a member of the European Film Academy, a Sundance Institute and the Institute for Human Science Grantee.
Tetiana Khodakivska is an award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker who strives to challenge pressing social issues by mix-media and multi-disciplinary projects. Particularly, Tetiana is interested in examining society from children’s perspective. The recent short documentary she co-directed "Once upon a time in Ukraine” was shortlisted for the 2025 Oscars. Among her awards is the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, 2014 for the period mini-series “Angels of War”, which follows the stories of siblings during World War II. Her cinema vérité documentary about mortality, “Enticing, Sugary, Boundless or Songs and Dances about Death” was premiered at the Ji.hlava Film Festival and nominated as best documentary at the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards, 2018.
was officially founded in 2024. Its establishment followed on from the individual activities of its members since the beginning of Russian aggression in 2022. The main motivation for joining forces in an official initiative was the effort to provide direct and long-term assistance to people affected by the war. In its first year of existence, the RSC has delivered 60 drones to the Ukrainian organization Solidarity Collectives, as well as over 600.000 Czech crowns in direct support of larger collections for the more expensive needs of anti-authoritarian fighters on the front lines, such as jammers and reconnaissance drones. The association also supported the 93rd Black Raven Brigade by supplying electrical and medical equipment.
