Bio

IOCOSE investigate how the narratives surrounding the future of technology leave traces on the present. Their artistic practice focuses on the failure of narratives about the future and technological innovation while producing new interpretations of imaginaries, iconographies and rhetorics through surreal poetics.

Founded in 2006 by four artists (Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, Davide Prati, Paolo Ruffino), IOCOSE have been exhibiting their work at some of the major artistic institutions, including Tate Modern (2011), Aksioma (2011, 2023), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2017), The Photographers Gallery (2018, 2016), Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2022), MAMbo (2018), Science Gallery (2012), Jeu de Paume (2011), FACT (2012), Transmediale (2013, 2015), and featured in publications such as Flash Art, Neural, Liberation, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Wired, The Creators Project .

Selected exhibitions

SOLO SHOWS

2026

  • Pointing Nemo, Cubo Unipol, Bologna, Italy, 6th February 2026 – 26th May 2026.

2024

  • Reverse Contradictionary,  Galleria MLZ Trieste, Italy, September 2024. (bi-personal with Vuk Ćosić)
  • A Raft Drifting Through Space, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia, 29th August – September 2024.

2022

  • FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena – Italy. November 2022

2021

  • All of your base, Aksioma, Ljubljana – Slovenia. December 2021
  • The Fortune Teller, Art Verona, Verona – Italy

2017

  • Failing Forward, Il Colorificio, Milan – Italy

2012

  • My Name is… IOCOSE, [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milan – Italy

2011

  • Game Arthritis, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia – Italy
  • Domestic Standing Ovation, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana – Slovenia
  • Sunflower Seeds on Sunflower Seeds, Tate Modern, London – UK

2010

  • In the Long Run, HTTP Gallery, London, UK
  • The Gallery at Goldsmiths, London – UK

GROUP SHOWS

2025

  • Re-humanism – Timeline Shift, Pastificio Cerere, Roma, Italy, U.S.A., 18th June 2025 – 30 July 2025.

2024

  • Human-alike NARS Foundation,  Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 11th October 2024.
  • Homo Ludens,videojuegos para entender el presente. CaixaForum, Tarragona, Spain, 22 March – 28 July
  • She Devil 13, Group exhibition, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy, 20th March 2024.

2023

  • Homo Ludens,videojuegos para entender el presente. CaixaForum, Girona, Spain, 4 October – 18 February 2024.

2022

  • On Equal Terms, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany, 14 September 2022 – 25 September 2022.

2021

  • The Impermanent Collection, Ogr Torino (online exhibition), 22 January 2021 – 28 March 2021.

2020

  • Hek Net Works, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (online exhibition), 10 November 2020 – 8 December 2020.
  • Eigenbedarf, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.
  • IBTWN – In Between, online exhibition for XL – Centrale Fies. 25 June – 23 July, 2020. Curated by Claudia D’Alonzo.
  • Metafotografia 2, BACO_Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, Bergamo . October 2020. Curated by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi.
  • STICK.T.ME, panke.gallery, Berlin. 17 June  – 04 July, 2020. Curated by Zentrum für Netzkunst

2019

  • Eigenbedarf, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
  • Flashing and flashing!, Maxxi. Rome, Italy
  • Silicon Plateau, Banner Repeater, London, UK

2018

  • Supervision, La Friche, Marseille, France
  • Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo – Treviso, Italy
  • All I Know is What’s on the Internet, The photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
  • Romaeuropa Festival, Roma, Mattatoio, Italy
  • Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • That’s IT! Bologna, Mambo, Italy
  • #LAYERS. Contemporary Art in the Digital Era,  iMAL Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Fabio Paris.
  • Different Eyes, Siegen, Germany

2017

  • Talent Prize 2017, Macro, Rome, Italy
  • SITUATIONS/Post Fail, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Iconomania, MAIF Social Club, Paris, France
  • Mirror Mirror, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Creative Encounters with Science, Iconomania, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India

2016

  • Streaming Egos, NKW Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Powerpoint polemics, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
  • Once Is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition, Inter Access, Toronto, Canada
  • Magic and Power – Heaven & Hell, Museum MARTa, Herford, Germany
  • Refresh01 – #LAYERS, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy

2015

  • From Heaven to Hell. Flying Carpets and Drones , Villa Empain-Boghossian Foundation, Bruxelles, Belgium 
  • On YouTube, Art and Playlists from 10 years, 26 August – 15 November 2015, Lagenthal, Switzerland. Curated by Raffael Dörig.
  • According to Marty McFly, 2015 is the future. #6PMEU 22 July, Berlin, Germany
  • roBOt Festival, 7 – 10 October, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
  • Hamster – Hipster – Handy. Im Bann des Mobiltelefons , Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
  • Node 2015. Forum for digital Arts , Frankfurt, Germany 
  • Internet Drones , Spazio ULTRA, Udine, Italy 
  • Media Art Festival , Centrale Montemartini, Roma, Italy

2014

  • roBOt Festival , Palazzo re Enzo, Bologna – L’Usina de l’Arte, Buenos Aires 
  • The C(h)roma Show , Croma Store, Indiranagar, Bangalore, India 
  • Premio Francesco Fabbri , Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (TV) 
  • Reality Check, Spazio Ultra, Udine – Italy 
  • 030 2.0 Arte da Brescia, Piccolo Miglio, Castello di Brescia, Brescia – Italy

2013

  • CLICK Festival, Helsingor – Denmark
  • GAME: The Future of Play, Polytechnical Museum, Moscow – Russia
  • Musical Zoo Festival, Castello di Brescia, Brescia – Italy
  • Shoot the Works, Blip Blip Blip, Leeds – UK

2012

  • Augmented Place. L’arte aumenta la realta’, Galleria Cavour, Padua – Italy
  • GAME, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • FOTOGRAFIA. Festival internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Rome – Italy
  • Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester – UK
  • Invisible Forces, Furtherfield Gallery, London – UK
  • BYOB Milano, Museo Pecci, Milan – Italy

2011

  • Cops & Robbers, Share Prize, Turin – IT
  • Truth, Or-bits online programm – UK
  • Abandon Normal Device, FACT, Liverpool – UK
  • My Personal Crime – Drodesera 2011, Centrale Fies, Dro (TN) – Italy
  • BYOB Venezia, Padiglione Internet, Isola di San Servolo, Venice – Italy
  • The Invisible Pavillion, Giardini, Venice – Italy
  • Italians do it better!!, 54. Biennale di Venezia, Sala dei Laneri, Venice – Italy
  • MicroReel, LPM – Forte Fanfulla, Roma – Italy
  • Raise Your Flag!, Speed Show – Bornet Internet Cafè, Barcelona – Spain
  • 5° Premio Arte Laguna, Nappe dell’Arsenale, Venice – Italy
  • Info Bomb, Festival Nrmal, Monterrey – Mexico
  • Identités précaires, Jeu de Paume, Paris – France

2010

  • Shift Festival, Basel – Switzerland
  • RE:akt!, Rotovž Exhibition Salon, Maribor, Slovenia
  • International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid – Spain
  • NodeFest, CSOA Forte Prenestino, Roma (Italy); Machine Club, Istanbul (Turkey)

2009

  • E-Volution, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan – Italy
  • ParkArt, Temporary Expositive Space, Milan – Italy
  • Once Upon a Time in the West, Pixxelpoint 2009, Nova Gorica – Slovenia
  • Explor-Art, Galleria AreaOdeon, Monza – Italy
  • Feel the Machine, GUMstudio, Carrara – Italy   

2008

  • For God’s Sake!, Pixxelpoint 2008, Nova Gorica – Slovenia
  • Milano in Digitale III, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan – Italy
  • Tutto quello che diciamo è falso, Betty&Books, Bologna – Italy
  • MAM, Museo di Arte moderna di Mantova, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (MN) – Italy

2007

  • Milano in Digitale II, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan – Italy