Studio visits (online) Lucia Pietroiusti

As an extension of the monthly studio visit program, Stroom organizes Digital Dialogues: online one-on-one conversations for artists from The Hague with an interesting artist, writer or curator.You can now sign up for a Digital Dialogue with curator Lucia Pietroiusti. Among other things, Pietroiusti is founder and curator of the General Ecology project launched in 2018 at Serpentine Galleries in London and co-curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennial that opened in April this year. In 2019, she curated the Lithuanian entry for the Venice Biennale, Sun & Sea (Marina), which was awarded the Golden Lion for best national entry.

On Monday, 5 July, 2021, curator Lucia Pietroiusti will conduct online conversations with artists in The Hague about their art practices. About her areas of interest, she says the following here:

"My main research focus is on art, ecology and systems; the intersection of disciplines; environmental justice; climate balance; plant intelligence and plant-related philosophy; theology and spirituality."

Sign up
If you are interested in an online conversation about your work and artistic practice with Lucia Pietroiusti, you can let us know until Monday, June 21, 2021. The responses received, along with any suggestions from Stroom, will be presented to Lucia, after which she will make a choice.

Short biography
Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator working at the intersection of art, ecology and systems, usually outside of the gallery format. She is Curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, London as well as the curator of Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (and 2020-2022 international tour). She is one of the curators of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water (2020/2021), with Andrés Jaque, Chief Curator; Marina Otero Verzier; Filipa Ramos and You Mi).

At the Serpentine, Pietroiusti founded, programmes and curates the long-term General Ecology project. General Ecology is a strategic, cross-organisational effort dedicated to the implementation of ecological principles throughout the Galleries' public-facing programmes, internal infrastructure, and networks. General Ecology has presented live events, radio programmes, publications as well as ongoing research projects. Pietroiusti is also a co-curator of Back to Earth- the Serpentine's 50th anniversary programme, dedicated to the environment (ongoing), which invites 65+ artists to devise environmental campaigns, prototypes or interventions in artwork form. Pietroiusti was the co-founder and co-curator of the Serpentine Podcast (since 2015, with Eva Jäger, Ben Vickers and Kay Watson).

Ongoing projects include The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish(Serpentine homepage/web portal and broadcast platform) an interdisciplinary festival, radio and publication series on consciousness and intelligence across species (with Filipa Ramos, Giles Round, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos, since 2018).

In 2022, Pietroiusti will join James Bridle in curating a section of the Helsinki Festival, dedicated to artificial and more-than-human intelligences. Publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier, 2020); Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory, Spanish edition published 2020; English edition forthcoming in 2021); PLANTSEX (MAL Journal, 2019) and Sun & Sea (Marina) (2019).

Digital Dialogues
On a monthly basis Stroom invites curators, artists and critics from home and abroad to make studio visits to artists from The Hague.The studio visit offers the artist the opportunity to present his/her/their work, and is an opportunity for constructive critical reflection on the work in an exchange of ideas with a qualified expert.As an extension of this, familiarity with the work is of course also encouraged