Chiara Cartuccia is a curator, writer, and researcher based in London. Her ongoing research examines the Mediterranean as an invented and inventive geography, focusing on the ramifications of practical Mediterraneanism(s) in Euro-Mediterranean contexts. She is co-founder and director of the curatorial and editorial platform EX NUNC.

She has held curatorial positions at SAVVY Contemporary and the Manifesta Biennial, and has curated exhibitions, as well as discursive and performative programmes at The Showroom London, Goldsmiths College, ICA Sofia, TBA21, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, La Escocesa, and La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani, among others.

As visiting curator at UNIDEE – Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (2022–2024), she initiated the biennial research project Neither on Land nor at Sea. Meeting by the Mediterranean Im/Possible. Cartuccia (co-)edited Manifesta 12. The Planetary Garden Reader (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2018), Place Holder (BOZAR, 2022), and Holding Place (Viaindustriae, 2025), part of the international project Alexandria: (Re)Activating Common Urban Imaginaries.

She contributes regularly to magazines, catalogues, and independent publications. Since 2024, she has been a tutor at the DAI Dutch Art Institute with Archive Ensemble.