Curator, programmer and strategist Lucia Pietroiusti (based between London and the Netherlands) stewards research and experimentation at the intersection of art, ecology and systems. Pietroiusti is Head of Research & Emergence at the future Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam, opening in 2028, with a particular focus on lead-in programming, R&D, and the ecosystemic aspects of the future institution. In 2027, she will be the Curator of the 6th Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, Kosovo) and she is a Convenor of the 2028 Bergen Assembly (with Filipa Ramos). She is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Forma, London, and a Trustee of theGallery Climate Coalition.

Until August 2025, Pietroiusti was Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, where she founded the General Ecology project (2018-2025), an initiative to further ecological research and experimentation in thought, infrastructure and practice.

Pietroiusti was the curator of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance, Sun & Seaby Rugile Barždziukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (and its international tour, 2019-2025). She is a curator of the long-durational project, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018, with Filipa Ramos), an interdisciplinary enquiry into theories of mind across more-than-human species and beings; as well as the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal (2025).

Pietroiusti devised and co-curated Serpentine’s Back to Earth programme (2020-2022), which invited 65+ artists to devise environmental campaigns, prototypes or interventions in artwork form. She was also a founder and co-presenter of the Serpentine Podcast (2015-2020).  She was a curator of the art-led systems-change project, Sites of… Practice (E-WERK Luckenwalde/Arising Quo, 2024, with Helen Turner and Nada Rosa Schroer); Songs for the Changing Seasons, 1st Vienna Klima Biennale (2024) and Persones Persons, 8th Biennale Gherdeïna (2022, both with Filipa Ramos); as well as Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-2021, with Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Filipa Ramos and You Mi).

Publications include the edited readers on more-than-human epistemologies, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (ed. with Filipa Ramos, 2025) and  More-than-Human (ed. with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier, 2020); as well as Microhabitable (ed. with Fernando García-Dory, 2023).