ONA TELOS is an interdisciplinary art project that seeks to awaken new ways of seeing and sensing — a journey through the interwoven fields of nature, sentient life, and the shifting horizon of digital reality.
In Catalan, ONA means wave — a pulse, a vibration, the rhythmic movement of energy through space.
TELOS, an ancient philosophical term, signifies the ultimate purpose — the inherent goal towards which all things in the universe are drawn.
Together, ONA TELOS becomes a living dialogue between the organic and the virtual, the visible and the imagined. It envisions a space where art meets philosophy, where play and interactivity merge with spirituality and technology, and where political awareness and artistic activism coexist with meditation and dreamlike introspection.
Tetiana Hlavatskykh is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist, curator and creator of the creative identity and project Ona Telos. Her practice explores the activation of public space through sculpture, performance, digital/mixed media art, and social interaction. She engages with themes such as globalism, the information society, and the interplay between physical and digital realities.
Tetiana holds an MA in Fine Art (Distinction) from Chelsea College of Arts and is a recipient of the Pimlico Million Green and Open Spaces Grant (National Lottery/Big Local Trust Fund), as well as the UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship. She is the founder of Ona Telos, a creative platform through which she has curated pop-up exhibitions, blending art, fashion, design and art education. Her recent work embraces clean forms, light-based media, and innovative technologies, while her background in academic drawing and painting, experimental music, and political actionism adds depth to her multidisciplinary approach. Across all mediums, her focus remains on creating immersive, participatory experiences that challenge how we perceive space, society and ourselves.
EDUCATION
2021-2019 Сhelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London,
MA Fine Art
2016 New Media Art Lab, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg, semi-annual course of video and sound
2016 School of the Improvised Music, Sound Museum, St. Petersburg
2014-2009 St.Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, BA Monumental Painting
AWARDS
2025 Pimlico Million Green and Open Spaces Grant
2019 UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
2025 Art Teacher, Westminster City Council, London
2025-2022 Partner, Pimlico Million, London
2021-2020 Visiting Lecturer, University of the Arts London
2020 Assistant Curator, Late at Tate, Tate Britain
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2025 Silent Whisperers, public sculpture commission, Peabody Estate, London
2023 Ebury FLOW, exhibition and pop-up creative space, Ebury Edge, London
2023 Altered Planes, Metre Squared, London
2022 London Decompression, Fire Club, London
2022 Our Home: Ukraine, Kendrew Barn, St John's College, Oxford
2022 Before/after, UntoldUkraine, Glovebox, Dublin
2022 Before/after, Google Office, Dublin
2022 Courage To Create, Koppel Projects, London
2022 12h Radio With Ukraine Fundraiser, IKLECTIK lab, London
2022 Sunflower Collective Auction, Chelsea College of Arts/Sotheby's Institute, London
2022 Physically Virtual, Ebury Edge Incubator, London
2022 Crescent London Launch Party, Secret Location East London
2022 Amphibia Vol.1, Secret Location East London
2021 Revenge of the Real, RuptureXIBIT Gallery, London
2021 RALLY, MA Fine Art Show, Chelsea College of Arts
2021 Brave Factory Festival, TOPKA stage, Kyiv
2021 Distanced Domestic, Co.Curation, The Old Dairy Hall, London
2021 Language Art Project, Central Saint Martins, London
2021 Grey Archives, 1st Yanjiao Art Biennial, Beijing
2020 Constructing Landscapes/Building Worlds, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
2020 The 5th Plinth, happening, Trafalgar Square, Frieze Art weekend, London
2020 Curtain Call, The Shop Front 286, London
2020 THUMB, virtual show, Royal College of Art, London
2020 Like Lick, Instagram live performance, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2020 [UN]comfort Zone, virtual show, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2020 Ashes to Passion, St.Saviours Church, London
2020 Mardigras Festival, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2020 Will you still love me tomorrow?, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2019 What will you fight for? Chelsea College of Arts, London
2019 Side Bar, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2019 MAFA International Festival, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2018 ADENIUM, FLOW~er Festival, Berthold Center, St.Petersburg
2018 LXXX Session, St.Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra, Jaani Kirik Concert Hall, St. Petersburg
2017 TRAJECTORICS, St.Petersburg Improvisers Choir. HERE AND NOW: Contemporary improvised music in Russian Museum, Marble Palace, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
2017 A Romance With Revolution/Foamania, Museum of nonconformist art, St.Petersburg
2017 RAM X media installation, GAMMA festival, St.Petersburg
2016 DRAMA HOUSE in collaboration with Alexandra Dementieva, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
2016 101.Mediapoetry Festival, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg
2016 Sound ON, Sound Museum, St.Petersburg
2016 GADGETOPHONIA, Taiga space/ Cyland MediaArtLab, St.Petersburg
2015 Will to Freedom. Shibari on the tanks- performance on the territory of War Museum, Kyiv
2015 Don’t Kill, To Democracy in Russian Federation- performances, S-ART Peter Vois gallery, Moscow
2015 Collective action, C.АРТ галерея Петра Войса (S-ART Peter Vois gallery), Moscow
2014 BIENNALE MIRA (Biennale of Peace), Kalinin’s dacha -curatorial project, St.Petersburg
2014 The Falling under the Stalin Park stone, improvised performance in Stalin Park, Harbin, China
2014 Heilongjiang Forest Ecological Festival, Yichun, China
2014 Image of a Woman, Kazanskaya 7 art space, St.Petersburg
2014 Hipposphere, Expoforum, St.Petersburg
2014 Tapestry: teacher and apprentices, Russian Center for Museum Pedagogy and Children's Creativity, State Russian Museum
2012- 2013 Summer practice, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2011 Summer practice exhibition at the Scientific and cultural centre Museum-reserve of A. S. Pushkin, Pushkin Mountains
2011 18th International Yoga Festival, Pondicherry, India
PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS/ APPEARANCES
2024 Working Class Creatives Database
https://www.workingclasscreativesdatabase.co.uk/member/tetiana-hlavatskykh
2021 Distanced Domestic, Сo-curation UK
2020 THUMB show, Royal College of Art, London
2018 Open Eurasian Literary Festival & Book Forum
https://www.awardslondon.com/ona-telos/
2017 Artification/2017, Gamma Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=capugkGb_GQ
2016 Ether devoted to Astronautics Day, Fontanka.ru, 12.04.2016, St.Petersburg
2016 Gadgetophonia (7.02.16), Cyland LAB
2015 Art protest: artistic weapons or diagnostics of diseases of a society? (Арт-протест: мистецька зброя чи діагностика хвороб суспільства?), 19.06.2015, Radio Svoboda, Kyiv, Ukraine
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/27080986.html
2014 Exhibition of masterpieces of fine arts 0451-87622122, Harbin 2014, China
2014 LookAtMe, 11.10.14, Biennale Mira (announcement)