Curator, programmer and strategist Lucia Pietroiusti stewards research and experimentation at the intersection of art, ecology and systems., often outside the exhibition space. As Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Art Foundation, she is working towards the opening of Hartwig’s new museum in 2028, with a particular focus on lead-in programming, R&D, and the ecosystemic aspects of the new cultural institution. Until August 2025, Pietroiusti was Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, where she founded the General Ecology project (2018-2025), an initiative that furthered ecological research and experimentation in thought, infrastructure and practice, embedding environmental commitment throughout the organisation.

Pietroiusti is 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 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 the 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 reader that traces seven 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 the Interior 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 Chair of the Board of Trustees at Forma, a Trustee of the Gallery Climate Coalition, and a member of the Technical Commission of CAAC Sevilla and C3A Andalucía.