10/07/2026
🌍Join us online for Thinking with Ecology: Lucia Pietroiusti and Olivia Whetung.
The environment is often approached as an external issue to address. But what does it mean to focus on human relations with our more-than-human neighbours? This conversation engages with ecological thinking and how it is shaping artworks, institutional systems, and possible futures.
Curator, programmer, and strategist Lucia Pietroiusti stewards research and experimentation at the intersection of art, ecology, and systems. Pietroiusti is Head of Research & Emergence at the Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam. She was previously Head of Ecologies at Serpentine, London, and curator of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance Sun & Sea, during the 58th Venice Biennale.
Artist Olivia Whetung is a member of Curve Lake First Nation. Whetung is from the area now called the Kawarthas and presently resides on Chemong Lake, Ontario. Whetung received her MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2016. She works in various media, including beadwork, printmaking, sculptural installation, and digital media.
🔗Registeration Required through our link in bio.
🎟️Admission is always FREE!
Shifting is organized by Clara Halpern, assistant curator, exhibitions. This program is generously supported by York University’s Sustainability Innovation Fund.
Image credits:
² Photograph: Talie Rose Eigeland.
¹ ³ Photograph: Toni Hafkenscheid.
