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PROFILE

Leo Hajducki (she/they) is a curator and artist working at the intersection of multisensory exhibition-making, sound, and narrative forms. Their practice explores questions of material agency, ecological thought, and deep time through collaborative curatorial methodologies. Hajducki’s current project, Do Rocks Remember Lava?, is an evolving curatorial publication and sonic programme that investigates geological memory, extractivism, and planetary transformation.

GSA Degree Show 25 | Digital Showcase

Memberships

a-n The Artists Information Company

Scottish Contemporary Art Network

Scottish Artists Union

British Art Network

Neuk Collective

Sites

LinkedIn
YouTube
bandcamp

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CONTACT

Leohajducki@gmail.com
Website https://leohajducki.cargo.site/
Instagram @ell.ee.oh

ETHICS STATEMENT

My curatorial practice is rooted in care, responsibility, and long-term commitment. I believe in the slow, sustained acquisition of knowledge, skills, and solidarity. As a politically engaged person, I am attentive to both my privileges and my flaws, and I remain willing to listen, learn, and take a stand on issues that matter.

I approach every project with thoughtfulness about who I collaborate with, what institutions I align myself with, and where financial support comes from. I am committed to ongoing research, reading, and dialogue, and to using my role as a curator to help amplify underrepresented voices in the arts.

Accessibility is a guiding principle: I endeavour to make all exhibitions and events as welcoming and inclusive as possible. My work is not driven by profit, but by a vision of freedom, justice, and creative expression for all. At its core, my practice seeks to challenge and dismantle systems of oppression, while building more equitable and liberatory ways of working together.

For accessibility and balance, I do not use social media on my phone. If you would like to contact me, please use the email provided on this site. I check emails at set times, so if your message is urgent, kindly write ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow
Master's of Letters in Curatorial Practice in Contemporary Art
One year 2024 - 2025

University of Edinburgh
BA Joint Honours degree in Philosophy and Politics
Four Years 2020 - 2024

University of Edinburgh
Access Course to Humanities and Social Sciences
One year 2019 - 2020

Employment

Stories from Glasgow
Glasgow City Council
Curator
Glasgow, Scotland
2025 - March 2026

Future Music Infrastructure Group at the University of Glasgow
Environmental Researcher
Glasgow, Scotland
2025 - April 2026

Counterflows Festival
Curatorial Intern
Glasgow, Scotland
2024 - 2025

Glasgow School of Art,
Workshop Facilitator
Glasgow, Scotland
2025

Woom Room Workshops CIC
Board of Directors
Glasgow, Scotland
2024 - 2026

Edinburgh University Students' Association, Edinburgh, Scotland

International Institute of Environment and Development, Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh University Students' Association, Edinburgh, Scotland

Brochan Cafe, Edinburgh, Scotland

Rocket Cafe, Edinburgh, Scotland

Wrong Skate Shop, Raglan, New Zealand

Fuzz Hair, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

Casanova's Hairdressers and Barbers', WA, Australia

Skills

Curatorial Practice | Multisensory, collaborative, and interdisciplinary exhibition-making; research-led approaches.

Project Management | Experienced in leading creative projects from conception to delivery. Experience including coordination of large-scale exhibitions, events, festivals, publications, and sound-based outputs.

Arts Administration | Skilled in writing funding applications, managing budgets, supporting artists, and maintaining clear, accessible communications.

Community Engagement | knowledge of working with grassroots organisations, artist collectives, and community-led initiatives; skilled in facilitation, consultation, and co-design.

Access and Inclusion | Development of access documentation, safeguarding policy, and adaptive infrastructures to support neurodivergent and disabled artists and audiences.

Writing and Editing | Experienced in writing curatorial texts, essays, and funding bids; publication author.

Environmental Strategy | Knowledge of sustainable practices in the arts, including environmental policy development and support for carbon reporting.

Public Programming | Planning and delivering talks, workshops, and events that centre on collective learning and critical listening.

Collaborative Working | Comfortable working across disciplines and with a wide range of stakeholders, collectives; facilitative, responsive, and grounded.

Exhibitions | Curatorial Projects

Stories from Glasgow
[tbc]
Glasgow
2025

Do Rocks Remember Lava?
Multisensory Publication, Sonic Launch,
Listen Gallery, Glasgow
2025

Counterflows Festival
Curatorial & Accessibility Intern,
AC Projects, Glasgow
2025

A Happening of the Written Word
Calligraphy & Embodied Text,
Glasgow School of Art
2025

Fluid Spaces: Art, Access & Autonomy
Experimental Accessibility Exhibition,
Glasgow School of Art
2024

We Want You Full of Beans
Gender, Identity & Embodiment,
Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
2024

Synaesthesia
Neurodivergent Artists, Multisensory Experience,
Summerhall, Edinburgh
2023

Awarded Funding

Volunteering

Leo currently volunteers their time supporting, as co-director, Woom Room Workshops (WRW). WRW is an artist-run space in Glasgow providing accessible studios, storage, and practical skills workshops. We support creative practice through collaboration, community, and inclusive, hands-on learning.

Demonstrated long-standing commitment to environmental sustainability and climate justice through diverse roles, including policy co-author on climate justice for Small Island Developing States with the Buchanan Institute (2022), outreach coordinator for grassroots environmental advocacy in Edinburgh (2019), and sustainable farming practitioner at Solscape Organic Farm in New Zealand (2016). These experiences deepened my understanding of regenerative practices, policy change, food sovereignty, and community organising.

Last Updated 24.10.31

CURATORIAL PROJECTS | W.I.P

Stories from Glasgow (2026) at South Block WASPS, Glasgow

Curated by Leo Hajducki
Produced by Amy Milner
Project Manager Deni Smith

Website -> https://storiesfromglasgow.cargo.site/edit/preview

Stories from Glasgow is a mixed-media exhibition of artwork by Glasgow residents that amplifies some of the city’s diverse and too often overlooked narratives. Rooted in lived experience and shaped through collaborative making, the exhibition brings together collage, print, photography, sound, poetry, and graffiti to honour the multiplicity of voices that make Glasgow what it is.

Developed through a series of workshops delivered across the city’s booster wards — Calton, Govan, and Govanhill — the project foregrounds creative expression as a vital tool for reclaiming space, telling truths, and forging connection. Each ward carries its own histories of resilience, transformation, and tension; the artworks presented here emerge directly from those contexts, offering intimate glimpses into stories that rarely reach gallery walls.

Partners include Arts In The City, Wasps South Block, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, Glasgow 850, Central Continuing Care & After Care Services, Glasgow City Council.

Event Details
Opening: Thursday 5th February 2026, 6 - 8pm
Exhibition: 6th - 25th February
Venue: South Block Gallery, 60-64 Osborne St, Glasgow G1 5QH

Further Information: our artist participants worked closely with a group of established Glasgow-based artists and practitioners whose practices centre on accessibility, experimentation, and community engagement.

Our workshops were led by:
@alicedanseyw, Alice Dansey Wright – visual artist and designer
@eoin_carey, Eoin Carey – photographer
@rossbside, Ross B-Side – graffiti and street artist
@printclan, Print Clan CIC – community screen printing studio
@thesoundlabglasgow, The Sound Lab

The resulting exhibition is a collective portrait of a city in flux — one that refuses simplification. Instead, Stories from Glasgow celebrates the fragmentary, the handmade, the whispered, and the boldly declared. It holds space for voices that challenge the dominant narratives and invites audiences to encounter Glasgow through a lens of co-creation, imagination, and mutual respect.

Do Rocks Remember Lava? (2025) at the Listen Gallery

Exploring the geologic as archive and witness through sound, visuals and the written word.

-> To PURCHASE the publication, please click here.

-> Held in the Listen Gallery.

Do Rocks Remember Lava? (DRRL) is an ongoing curatorial and artistic research project exploring all things lithic, considering geological agency, extractivism, and deep time through sound, storytelling, sensory observation through a variety of mediums. It has so far taken the shape of one publication and one sonic launch. Rather than a finished product DRRL is a porous archive of artworks, listening, research, and exchange.
Bringing together artists, geologists, writers, and performers, DRRL asks how we might tune into the slow intelligence of stone and rethink our relationships with the earth.

The project culminated in a sonic launch at Listen Gallery, Glasgow, on 7 August 2025.

Featured Artists: Samm Annand; Suzi Cunningham; Clara Ionita; Moira Salt; Alex Palmer; Julie Brook; Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir; Fiona Mackintyre; Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky and Romy Zaman; Andy Phillipson; Norman Villeroux; Son Oural; Sarah Casey; Iona Lee; Kristian Blak; Justin Carter; Aisling Smith; Scott O’Regan McGowan; Kitty Hillier; David Keohan; Michael Allen-z Prime; Ilana Halperin; Minty Donald; Mark Quinn; Robert Cook; Lilith Piper; Minty Donald & Nick Millar.

Opening night readings by Moira Salt and Scott O’Regan McGowan.

Music by Samm Annand, Kristian Blak, Alex Palmer, Norman Villeroux.

Butoh Dance Performance by Suzi Cunningham.

Poster design by Dougie Kennedy.

Curatorial Intern with Counterflows Festival (2025)

->https://counterflows.com/

I contributed to one of the world’s leading experimental music festivals by developing and updating accessibility, safeguarding, and environmental policies, aligning practices with legal standards and grassroots values. Collaborated with curatorial and production teams to embed inclusivity and climate action across operations, while providing hands-on support across the festival—from artist liaison to volunteer coordination, setting up stalls and creating signage.

A Happening of the Written Word (2025) at Glasgow School of Art

Exhibition at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow | January- February 2025

A Happening of the Written Word was curated by Gao Zheng and reimagines calligraphy as an embodied, process-driven art form that transcends traditional boundaries. By fusing historical symbolism with spontaneous, rule-free creativity, the exhibition transforms the act of writing into a dynamic dialogue between cultural memory and contemporary expression. Visitors are invited to engage with calligraphy not as a static practice but as a living conversation that evolves with every brushstroke.

I supported exhibition text development by editing printed matter, ensuring a cohesive and engaging narrative.

Fluid Spaces: Art, Access & Autonomy (2024) at Glasgow School of Art

A research-led speculative exhibition about the future of inclusive gallery design

As co-curator of Fluid Spaces, I helped develop an experimental exhibition that reimagined accessibility as both a conceptual lens and a practical methodology for curating. The project centred on three adaptive gallery environments, each presenting the same artworks under different sensory conditions—ranging in lighting, sound, colour, seating, and interactivity—to prioritise agency and choice, particularly for disabled and neurodivergent visitors. Through embedded feedback mechanisms and participatory elements, the exhibition invited public dialogue on how art spaces can become more inclusive, responsive, and co-authored. Alongside acting as artist liaison and authoring curatorial texts, I grounded the project in critical research around perception and access. I also co-produced the Accessible Exhibition Resources, a practical toolkit emerging from the show that shares creative strategies for accessible exhibition-making. I created a short film documenting an in-studio interview I conducted with the artist Waffle Burger.

Working alongside curators Claire Atkin, Xuefan Liu, Yuezhang Gu, and Kelsey Cronin

Synaesthesia (2023) at Summerhall Meadows Galleries

I co-curated Synaesthesia with my fantastic art partner Amy Milner. It was a large-scale, immersive exhibition held in the Summerhall, Meadows Galleries, Edinburgh. Featuring the work of 21 neurodivergent artists, the project explored themes of sensory processing, the neurodivergent experience, and mental health through soundscapes, interactive installations, mixed media, and collective storytelling. Synaesthesia prioritised access and experimentation, creating a space where divergent ways of sensing and knowing could be shared and celebrated.

Featured artists: Anita Govan, Ewan Arthur, Mano Camatsos,
‭ Kat Crab, Katja Hänninen, Ruairidh Morrison, Suzi Cunningham, Lucie Yavruturk, Kate Young, Mark Quinn, Gael Curran‬‭ and‬‭ Iona Zawinski, David Chitty (1938 - 2022).

With music from Mimram (12-piece jazz band), Mano Camatsos (guitar), Gray Davis‬‭ (saxophone),‬‭ Cristiano Mantovanelli‬‭ (vibraphone), Isla Pitkethly‬‭ (piano)‬ and Callum‭ Govan (production)‬‭ .‬

Academic talks by Dr Claire Field (philosophy) and Dr Amanda Pitkethly (psychology).