Lucia Pietroiusti is Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam

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 programme testing, R&D, and the ecosystemic aspects of the future institution. In 2027, she will be the Curator of the 6th Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, Kosovo). 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. She is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Forma, London, and a Trustee of the Gallery Climate Coalition.

Pietroiusti was the curator of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance, Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte 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).

Photo by: Talie Rose Eigeland