Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator, programmer and organisational strategist, working  at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, often outside the exhibition space. As Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, Pietroiusti founded the the General Ecology project (2018-ongoing) and the Ecologies department (since 2023), two initiatives that further ecological research and experimentation in thought, infrastructure and practice,  embedding environmental commitment throughout the organisation. 

Having focused her research on ecology in art and culture for the last decade, Pietroiusti was the curator of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance, Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, the Golden-Lion winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (and its international tour, ongoing).

Current and recent Serpentine activities include the research, festival and radio project The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (with Filipa Ramos), an interdisciplinary enquiry into theories of mind across more-than-human species and beings; as well as the Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2023-24) and the climate-justice project, Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal (2025). Pietroiusti was a co-curator of Back to Earth – Serpentine’s 50th anniversary programme (2020-2022), which invited 65+ artists to devise environmental campaigns, prototypes or interventions in artwork form. She also co-founded, co-curated and co-presented Serpentine Podcast (2015-2020). 

Pietroiusti is a curator of the art-led systems-change project, Sites of… Practice (E-WERK Luckenwalde/Arising Quo, 2024-ongoing, with Helen Turner and Nada Rosa Schroer), and the exhibition, Songs for the Changing Seasons, Vienna’s first Climate Biennale (April-July 2024). She also recently curated the 8th Biennale Gherdeïna, Persones Persons, in 2022 (both with Filipa Ramos); 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water(2020-2021, with Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Filipa Ramos and You Mi) and the exhibition and performance programme, Being Mothers, at E-WERK Luckenwalde (2021-2022).

Publications include a major forthcoming reader that traces six years of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (ed. with Filipa Ramos, Hatje Cantz, 2025); the readers More-than-Human (ed. with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier, 2020); Microhabitable (ed. with Fernando García-Dory, 2020-2023) and PLANTSEX (MAL Journal, 2019) as well as the vinyl/catalogue edition of Sun & Sea (Marina) (2019).

Pietroiusti teaches and lectures internationally and was recently Professor of theInterior Ecologies module at HEAD – Genève’s MA Interior Architecture (2023-2024). She was a 2024 Creative Fellow of NCAD Dublin’s Creative Futures Academy. She is a Trustee of theGallery Climate Coalition and Chair of the Board of Trustees at Forma, as well as a member of the Technical Commission of CAAC Sevilla and C3A Andalucía.