Tetiana Hlavatskykh (b. Kyiv, Ukraine) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, curator and art educator working across drawing, painting, light, public sculpture, digital media, and performance. Formally grounded in classical monumental academic art, her practice has expanded through experimental sound and political actionism into immersive, participatory experiences across urban and virtual realms.
She is the founder of ONA TELOS, a contemporary art platform operating at the collision of ecology, technology, and public life. Drawing its name from the Catalan word for wave (Ona) and the Greek concept of ultimate purpose (Telos), the project investigates the shifting boundaries between physical environments, synthetic realities, and collective memory.
Through site-specific installations, public commissions, and curatorial interventions, Hlavatskykh activates shared space to challenge how we perceive political structures, technological mediation, and bodily presence today.
EDUCATION
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MA Fine Art, Distinction — Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, 2021–2019
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BA Monumental Painting — St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, 2014–2009
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Auditor, Theory and History of Art — St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, 2011–2014
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Fine Arts Diploma — Taras Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv, 2009–2006
AWARDS
2026 Westway Trust Seedlings Grant
2025 Pimlico Million Green and Open Spaces Grant
2019 UAL International Postgraduate Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
Art Tutor and Project Manager – Fixed-term Academic Publications | University of the Arts London, 2026
Art Teacher | Westminster City Council, London, 2025
Trustee | Pimlico Million, London, 2025-2022
Visiting Lecturer | University of the Arts London, 2021-2020
Assistant Curator – Late at Tate | Tate Britain, 2020
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
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Maxilla Studios Open Art Weekend, ACAVA, London, 2026
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Physically Virtual, Ebury FLOW, Ebury Edge Incubator, London, 2022
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Constructing Landscapes / Building Worlds, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London, 2020
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BIENNALE MIRA (Biennale of Peace), Kalinin’s Dacha, St.Petersburg
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2026 On Emergence – Exhibition and book launch , Chelsea College of Arts (Upcoming)
Weaving Connections – Maxilla Studios Open Art Weekend (Kensington & Chelsea Art Week), London
INFOSCIETY, Otherside, London
Between Occurrences – Civic Action Lab, Hypha Studios, London
2025 Silent Whisperers – Public sculpture commission, Peabody Estate, London
2023 Ebury FLOW – Exhibition and pop-up creative space, Ebury Edge, London
Altered Planes – Metre Squared, London
2022 London Decompression – Fire Club, London
Our Home: Ukraine – Kendrew Barn, St John's College, Oxford
Before/After (UntoldUkraine) – Glovebox, Dublin
Before/After – Google Office, Dublin
Courage To Create – Koppel Projects, London
12h Radio With Ukraine Fundraiser – IKLECTIK Lab, London
Sunflower Collective Auction – Chelsea College of Arts/ Sotheby's Institute, London
Physically Virtual – Ebury Edge Incubator, London
INFOSCIETY (Crescent London Launch Party) – Secret Location East London
Amphibia Vol.1 – Secret Location East London
2021 Revenge of the Real – RuptureXIBIT Gallery, London
RALLY (MA Fine Art Show) – Chelsea College of Arts, London
INFOSCIETY 1 – Brave Factory Festival (TOPKA Stage), Kyiv
Distanced Domestic – Co.Curation, The Old Dairy Hall, London
Language Art Project – Central Saint Martins, London
Grey Archives – 1st Yanjiao Art Biennial, Beijing
2020 Constructing Landscapes/ Building Worlds – Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
The 5th Plinth – Happening, Trafalgar Square, Frieze Art Weekend, London
Curtain Call – The Shop Front 286, London
THUMB – Virtual show, Royal College of Art, London
Like Lick – Instagram live performance, Chelsea College of Arts, London
[UN]comfort Zone – Virtual show, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Ashes to Passion – St.Saviours Church, London
Mardigras Festival – Cookhouse Gallery, London
Will you still love me tomorrow? – Cookhouse Gallery, London
2019 What will you fight for? – Chelsea College of Arts, London
Side Bar – Cookhouse Gallery, London
MAFA International Festival – Cookhouse Gallery, London
2018 ADENIUM, FLOW~er Festival – Berthold Centre, St.Petersburg
LXXX Session, St.Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra – Jaani Kirik Concert Hall, St. Petersburg
2017 TRAJECTORICS, St.Petersburg Improvisers Choir – State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
A Romance With Revolution/ Foamania – Museum of Nonconformist Art, St.Petersburg
RAM X – Media installation, GAMMA Festival, St.Petersburg
2016 DRAMA HOUSE (collaboration with Alexandra Dementieva) – The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
101.Mediapoetry Festival – The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg
Sound ON – Sound Museum, St.Petersburg
GADGETOPHONIA – Taiga Space/ Cyland MediaArtLab, St.Petersburg
2015 Will to Freedom. Shibari on the Tanks – Performance, War Museum, Kyiv
Don’t Kill – Performance, S-ART Peter Vois Gallery, Moscow
To Democracy in Russian Federation – Performance, S-ART Peter Vois Gallery, Moscow
Collective Action – Exhibition, C.АРТ галерея Петра Войса (S-ART Peter Vois Gallery), Moscow
2014 BIENNALE MIRA (Biennale of Peace) – Curatorial project, Kalinin’s Dacha, St.Petersburg
The Falling Under the Stalin Park Stone – Performance in Stalin Park, Harbin, China
Heilongjiang Forest Ecological Festival – Yichun, China
Image of a Woman – Kazanskaya 7 Art Space, St.Petersburg
Tapestry: Teacher and Apprentices – Russian Centre for Museum Pedagogy and Children's Creativity, State Russian Museum
2013 Summer Practice Exhibition – Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2012 Summer Practice Exhibition – Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2011 Summer Practice Exhibition – Scientific and Cultural Centre Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin, Pushkin Mountains
18th International Yoga Festival – Pondicherry, India
2009 Group Exhibition of Taras Shevchenko State Art School Alumni – Mytets Gallery, Kyiv
PUBLICATIONS/ PRESS/ APPEARANCES
2026 On Emergence: Practices of Art and Education While They Reform — University of the Arts London, Glasgow School of Art and ASP Krakow
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)