Ubiquitous Art is a community interest company (reg No 15435712) established by architect and curator Olga Tarasova in 2024. It focuses on delivering public art programmes and architectural interventions for deprived neighbourhoods and organising contemporary art exhibitions, workshops, and educational programmes for the benefit of underrepresented communities.

The integral part of the company’s purpose is to establish intercorporeality of the art & design world. Phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) defined Intercorporeal as a “presumptive domain of the visible and the tangible, which extends further than the things I touch and see at present” (Merleau-Ponty, 1968). It is a spatiality free from any pre-subjectifications and subdivisions – a realm inclusive and available to every body. Similarly, Ubiquitous Art strives to amplify underrepresented voices within the art & design worlds and make these two fields accessible to people of all backgrounds, identities, cultures and beliefs.

Working across Curation, Art Theory & Architecture, Tarasova explores the interconnection between artistic andspatial practices in relation to phenomenology of perception. She is interested in the ungraspable elements of the world which are unavailable to the immediate human perception yet nonetheless manifest themselves in various forms and experiences. This interest is one of the motives of Tarasova’s PhD which she is currently undertaking at Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths University.

Tarasova worked as a curator at Chalton Gallery / UK Mexican Arts Society and was involved in the following shows: Art Night (2019); Frieze Day Public Art Programmes (2019-21); For/In Itself (2020); [in]visible city (2021); Salon Acme (2021). As an independent curator, she has been collaborating with independent platforms including Seager Gallery [ in|visible things (2023)], The Smallest Gallery in Soho [out|side|in (2021); Septuplet (2023)] & ThorpStavri [Factory Project (2021), Ghost-Like Traces (2022)] She is also a guest-writer at Trebuchet Magazine.

Tarasova also works as an architect at Lawray Architects, where she oversees technical design and construction phase of façade remediation projects following the Grenfell tragedy.