HISTORY
2023
Launch of The Urbanaut Podcast. We've embarked on this project to dive deeply into the compelling world of image culture, scrutinizing its profound effects on both the individual and societal landscapes.Urbanauts through their expertise and insightful perspectives would significantly amplify the depth and reach of our discussions. We also released the catalog of Awards 2022.
2022
Urbanautica releases the catalog of Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020. The research and collaboration with Lab27 in Italy grow up and lead to the collective exhibition 'Ambientale', and to other curatorial works with photographers Stacy Kranitz, Paccarik Orue, Thomas Locke Hobbs, Fabiola Cedillo among others.
2021
Urbanautica collaborates again with Ragusa Foto Festival, and the international conference on education and photography Blurring the Lines. The catalog 'Sacred. The Experience of Beyond' is released. Contributed to the research 'Sclavanie' and 'Alemagna' both published by Penisola Edizioni. Also issued the book 'N-D Narrative Dimension' with European Cultural Centre.
2020
Urbanautica Institute releases a new magazine that addresses relevant topics in society. The first issue is 'Extinction. The world without us'. The magazine is also available for free in its digital version. For the third year, Urbanautica publishes the catalog 'Blurring the Lines', an annual investigation on graduates' works with the aim of fostering young talents and boosting intra-academic dialogue.
2019
The first edition of the annual Urbanautica Institute Awards ends up in a special catalog gathering conversations with 30 photographers. Urbanautica kickstarts Penisola Edizioni, a publishing house that supports and researches Italian photography. Urbanautica collaborates with the new edition of Ragusa Foto Festival 2019, and selected over 30 photographers to be exhibited.
2018
Urbanautica runs an art community-based residency program in the village of Asolo, Italy. The results of this collective journey were published in the book "Asolo Sine Qua Non".
2017
At Galeria Virgilio, in São Paulo, Urbanautica presents the outcomes of 4 year-long workshop in Brazil aimed at questioning the role of public spaces in Sao Paulo.
2016
Urbanautica Institute publishing house is born. Since then, over a dozen mostly sold-out titles have been published.
2015
On the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of Milan EXPO 2015, ‘Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life’, Urbanautica is asked to coordinate an international competition to offer through photography a special contribution to the relevant discussion of feeding the world. The results become a catalog "Feed a Different Imagination" published by L'Artiere.
2014
Urbanautica's second collaboration with The Salt Yard Gallery in Hong Kong leads to the exhibition 'The game is killing the game' by David Chancellor.
2013
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia, invites Urbanautica to work on a new edition of the exhibition "Naturae" and to research the experience of space and landscape in photography.
2012
Urbanautica is invited by Benetton Foundation to organize a workshop on photography and the rural landscape at Casa Cozzi, in Zero Branco, Italy.
2011
"Mother Russia" is the first commissioned curatorial work assigned to Urbanautica by AsoloArtFilmFestival. That year's edition was dedicated to Russian cinema, thus Urbanautica decided to create a collective exhibition mostly of Russian female photographers after two members of Pussy Riot band were arrested for their ‘Putin Zassa’ performance at Moscow’s Red Square.
2010
With the title of "Naturae" Urbanautica presents its first collective exhibition and catalog dedicated to the theme of the representation of nature
2009
Canadian photographer David Pollock is the first special guest editor.
Since then, over 40 contributors, critics, curators, teachers, photographers have followed. Altogether they fed the precious Urbanautica archive that counts today hundreds of interviews and reviews. A unique cross-section of relevant contemporary photography.
2008
Steve Bisson starts a blog. Urbanautica, a neologism that summarizes two essential and constitutive phenomena at the beginning of the new millennium. The act of navigating through a new world called the "Internet" and urbanism as the dominant manifestation of man's distinctive pressure on earth.