All projects
Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti in collaboration with Memory Gems (Leonardo Dellanoce, Arthur Steiner), Hartwig Art Foundation, 23-25 October 2026.
A gathering on technology, meteorology and ecstasy.
Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos for Bergen Assembly 2028, 11-12 September 2026, Korskirken.
Prizren, Kosovo. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, opens 10th July 2027. Assistant Curator: Danai Giannoglou.
A film festival of artists’ film and video, hosted by Dimora delle Balze, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti. In 2026, the festival addressed the emergence of the spiritual in moments of ecological and cultural crisis.
Assistant Curator: Danai Giannoglou
Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti. Set Margins’, 2026. A study trip is a psychedelic journey you embark upon to learn about the world. Study Trip offers is a guide through artistic, scientific, social, material and spiritual issues around psychedelics.
Written for the catalogue of Alexandra Kasuba: Shelters for the Senses, Tate St Ives, 2026.
A nursery rhyme for grown-ups written and published for the catalogue of Lina Lapelytė, We Make Years Out of Hours, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2026.
On mysticism, erotics and planetary ecologies. Text written for Spirit as a Journal, Autumn/Winter 2025, guest edited by Vaiva Grainytė.
An enquiry into non-human, human and artificial minds. Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos. Designed by Giles Round.
A film festival of artists’ film and video, hosted by Dimora delle Balze, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti. In 2025, the festival included visions of beginnings and ends of worlds.
A project by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, commissioned by Serpentine Ecologies. 4th-24th April 2025, Ambika P3, London, & touring.
8th-24th April 2025, Ambika P3, London
Part of Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial, a project by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, commissioned by Serpentine Ecologies.
Lucia Pizzani is a bilingual publication (English & Spanish), published by This Side Up and edited by Natalia Valencia Arango, with contributions from Nicolas Bourriaud, Lucia Pietroiusti and Torrivilla, and in interview between the artist and Lisa Le Feuvre.
Lecture-performance, presented at Futurological Congress, Chapter 5: The Future of Care. Zürich, 29-30 November 2024.
Keynote by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, followed by a conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti. Part of Serpentine’s Infinite Ecologies Marathon, 29 September 2024.
Sites of… Practice is a yearly programme that supports the emergence of a new field of practice in the face of the polycrisis.
Part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon, Serpentine, 13 July 2024.
With Kalpana Arias, Marcus Coates, Annalee Davis, Belinda Holden, Caroline A. Jones, Sandra Knecht, Remi Kuforiji, Eva Papamargariti, Yinka Shonibare, Graeme Smith and Carla Subrizi.
Presentation at FRAME Contemporary Art Finland’s Sustainable Visual Arts Day, 24 June 2024
Video contribution on the occasion of Kapwani Kiwanga’s Canadian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2024. Produced by Goodman Gallery.
Curator
An opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė. Golden Lion for Best National Participation
Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019 & international tour, 2020-2023
General Ecology is the Serpentine’s long-term and ongoing project researching complexity, more-than-humanism, climate justice and environmental balance.
Conversation with Filipa Ramos, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. 24-25 May 2023.
Essay for Everybody Talks about the Weather exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Prada, Venice
April 2023
A conversation about worldbuilding and ends of worlds, with John Paino (Production Designer/The Last of Us) and Liam Young at The World Around Summit, Guggenheim Museum, New York
22 April 2023
Essay for The Work of Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction publication by Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH), University College London (forthcoming)
Conversation with Shumon Basar, Global Art Forum 16: Predicting the Present, Dubai, UAE
3 March 2023
but tell it slant: Zadie Xa’s more-than-human time:
Essay for Zadie Xa’s exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, 2023.
Interview contribution fo the exhibition catalogue, Collection Pinault/Bourse de Commerce, 2023.
Text contribution to the publication, edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Chus Martinez, 2023.
Senses of Purpose: Talk at Life Perceives symposium, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex
20 January 2023
Conversation with Leonor Serrano Rivas and Diego Delas for TBA-21 Academy Radio podcast. December 2022.
The fifth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.
Lecture at the Fondazione Ratti’s symposium, Livability, curated by Martina Angelotti and Annie Ratti.
Como, 22-23 October 2022.
Art2030 for the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development & UNESCO ResilientArt
22 April 2022, Venice
In conversation with Amitav Ghosh at The World Around Summit, 5th February 2022, Guggenheim New York.
Part of Serpentine’s Back to Earth project. Curated by Rebecca Lewin, Lucia Pietroiusti and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Composition by Pan Daijing.
The Swiss Church, London, 12-17 October 2021.
A publication, study and radio programme, in collaboration with Fernando García-Dory, INLAND/Campo Adentro and Matadero, Madrid. 2018-ongoing.
A 3-day gathering on climate justice, 29-31 October 2021, Dartington Trust, Devon. With Ashish Ghadiali and Amal Khalaf. Additional support from advisor Paul Gilroy.
A partnership between Serpentine, Dartington Trust, UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Lawrence & Wishart Books, Verso, LUMA Arles, Café OTO and the Stuart Hall Foundation.
Edited by Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier and Lucia Pietroiusti. Associate Editor: Lisa Mazza
A hybrid publishing and commissioning platform for audio, initiated on the occasion of the Transformation Marathon in 2015, it has become a permanent fixture of the Serpentine’s programme and now brings together over 10 years of audio experiments and commissions from the Galleries archives.
A collaboration between Serpentine and WePresent, featuring five features on artists working on Back to Earth projects. With Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Vivienne Westwood, Himali Singh Soin, Karrabing Film Collective and Tabita Rezaire.
January-June 2021
16th April-18th July 2021. Chief Curator: Andrés Jaque. Curators: Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos, YOU Mi.
21 April 2021. Part of Assembly for Permacircular Museums, ZKM Karlsruhe, 21-23 April 2021.
20 April 2021. Part of the conference, Making and Unmaking Exhibitions — Sustainability in Times of Planetary Crisis.
8 April 2021, Financial Times on Back to Earth x WePresent: Himali Singh Soin, Static Range.
Eight ways to help protect the planet (and more) on 22 April. Features Groundwork (Back to Earth x WePresent collaboration).
14 March 2021. With Ashley Jane Lewis, Annie Lewandowski, Kyle McDonald and Lucia Pietroiusti.
A collaboration between Serpentine’s Back to Earth and Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters
February 2021
Published January 2021. Artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen discuss their ongoing project, Heavens in the context of ecologies, invisible global infrastructure and exhibition-making.
The fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.
Amongst the squirrels, artists Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press speaks with Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of General Ecology at Serpentine Galleries.
To begin with, there’s you.
Close your eyes, if you can, and picture a beach. Maybe the beach of your childhood (if you’ve had that kind of childhood). Something incredibly familiar, almost impossibly benign.
Jury member, October 2020. An international design and ideas competition to reimagine museums as a radical form of climate action.
A project with Royal College of Art, School of Architecture’s studio ADS3, with Cooking Sections. Launched October 2020.
Sensory Studies for Social Innovation, part of The Artist as Consultant series hosted by E-Werk Luckenwalde.
August 2020.
A brief talk at the Interspecies Conversations Public Event 2020 in collaboration with the Coller Foundation, Google and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.
This discussion, hosted by the MA Curating the Art Museum course at the Courtauld Institute of Art, focuses on the courses of action available to institutions and artists concerned with the climate crisis, and what influence these stakeholders can actually have on a local and global level.
Curator, artist interventions at Julie’s Bicycle summit, We Make Tomorrow
26 February 2020
‘In the Understory of the Understory’, talk at HangarBicocca, Milan conference, Foreste Plurali, 22 November 2019
‘How to Think with Others?’ Part of Territorial Agency’s series, Plan the Planet, 7 October 2019.
8 September 2019. In collaboration with Flourishing Diversity and University College London
12 June 2019, ArtBasel. With Catherine Bottrill and Andrew Stramentov. Moderator: Chris Hampton
An evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism.
Edited by Maria Dimitrova, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and Kostas Stasinopoulos. April 2019.
A cinema series on the expression of environmental issues in film and video. Winter 2018/19.
The second instalment of this year-long symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project, features anthropologists, artists, robotics experts, historians and scientists, to address interior multitude, swarming organisms, symbiosis and entanglement.
28 May 2018, ZSL London Zoo. With Filipa Ramos.
Artists, dancers, writers and scientists gathered at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication.