bio + statement

Zeroscena is a multidisciplinary collective formed by Elisa La Boria (Latisana, 1998) and Luka Bagnoli (Rimini, 1998), working across photography, audiovisual media, and participatory art. Both hold a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts from IUAV University of Venice, where they now serve as teaching collaborators, and are currently in residence residence at the ateliers of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.

The group’s research focuses on bounded environments, treated as case studies and, more precisely, as scenes in their own right, portions of space and time within which action can be observed and repeated. Spaces of confinement, domestic settings, and sites of representation become devices for examining relationships and contradictions. The collective’s practice centers on reworking and reinterpreting pre-existing materials, drawing on archives understood both as catalogs of images, photographic or audiovisual, and as sets of components belonging to objects and systems, the gears of a factory, or the rules of a game. In recent years, their work has concentrated on the social dynamics of cohabitation within natural and artificial environments, both within human societies and in the relationship between humans and the biosphere.

Zeroscena è un collettivo multidisciplinare formato da Elisa La Boria (Latisana, 1998) e Luka Bagnoli (Rimini, 1998), attivo negli ambiti della fotografia, dell’audiovisivo e dell’arte partecipativa. Entrambi si sono laureati in Arti Visive (LM) presso lo IUAV di Venezia, dove attualmente collaborano alla didattica, e sono al momento in residenza negli atelier della Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia e Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.

La ricerca del gruppo prende in esame ambienti delimitati, considerati come casi studio e come vere e proprie scene, ovvero porzioni di spazio e tempo all’interno delle quali l’azione può essere osservata e ripetuta. Spazi di reclusione, ambienti domestici e luoghi della rappresentazione diventano così dispositivi attraverso cui analizzare relazioni e contraddizioni. Il collettivo lavora sul rimaneggiamento e sulla reinterpretazione di materiali preesistenti, utilizzando archivi intesi sia come cataloghi di immagini, fotografici o audiovisivi, sia come insiemi di componenti appartenenti a oggetti e sistemi, quali gli ingranaggi di una fabbrica o le regole di un gioco. Negli anni recenti il lavoro del collettivo si è concentrato sulle dinamiche sociali di co-abitazione in ambienti naturali e artificiali, sia all’interno delle società umane sia nel rapporto tra gli umani e la biosfera.

exhibitions + festivals

SiciliAmbiente Film Festival
official selection – Un mare molto piccolo – Aamod Prize / 15 July 2026

Into the Blue – Sea Life Fest
talk and projection of the docu-film Un mare molto piccolo, curated by Fondazione Cetacea – Cinema Fulgor, Rimini, Italy/ 06 June 2026

Art Ecologies – Un mare molto piccolo
talk and projection of the docu-film Un mare molto piccolo, curated by Cristina Baldacci and Noemi Quagliati / 25 May 2026

Bellaria Film Festival
official selection – Un mare molto piccolo World Premiere / 10 May 2026

Granda
collective exhibition – curated by Antonio Grulli – San Marco Square Gallery, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy / 4 Oct – 23 Nov 2025

IDEAL CITY and other germinations
collective exhibition – curated by Penzo + Fiore – Alvisopoli (VE), Italy / 12 Sept – 12 Oct 2025

Riscritti e rimossi
solo show – curated by Carmelo Marabello – Asylum Museum, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy / 20 Feb – 30 Mar 2025

Video Sound Art Festival XIV
Festival and production centre for contemporary art – Milan, Italy / 26 Octobre 2024

Level-up
solo show – curated by Francesca De Chiara – Iperspazio, Milan, Italy / 16 – 23 May 2024

Affittasi luminosissimo bilocale
solo show – curated by spazioSERRA – spazioSERRA, Milan, Italy / 15 Feb – 23 Mar 2024

ReA! Fair
curated by Vittoria Martinotti, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy / 12 – 15 Oct 2023

Desenzano Film Festival
International Exhibition of Short Cinema, Desenzano del Garda, Italy / 14 – 17 Sept 2023

Ibrida Festival
curated by Vertov Project – EXATR, Forlì, Italy / 07 – 10 Sept 2023

Unarchive Found Footage Fest
curated by Alina Marazzi and Marco Bertozzi – Cinema Intrastevere, Rome, Italy / 03 – 08 May 2023

Finché – MA IUAV Visual Arts
collective exhibition – curated by Cesare Pietroiusti – Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice, Italy / 20 – 22 January 2023

senso comune
collective exhibition – curated by Adiacenze and In Habitat – Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy / 14 Oct – 10 Dec 2022

Centrale Festival, E diede della lancia in una pala
curated by Luca Panaro – Malatestian Fortress, Fano, Italy / 10 – 25 June 2022

Berlin Photo Week 
curated by BBA Gallery – Arena Berlin, Berlin / 03 – 08 May 2022

104ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti
collective exhibition – Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation – San Marco Square Gallery, Venice, Italy / 15 Jan – 20 Feb 2022

Nello spazio fa freddo 
collective exhibition – curated by Luca Panaro – Chippendale Studio, Milan, Italy / 7 Oct – 8 Nov 2020

prizes

Giovan Battista Calapai and Theodora van Mierlo Benedetti International Prize 
Piero Gagliardi Prize by Angelo Azzurro Onlus, Rome, Italy / 2025

Luigi Candiani Prize 
first prize, residency prize – curated by Nicoletta Candiani, SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy / 24  June – 22 July 2023

Arte Laguna Prize
finalists exhibition – curated text by Luca Beatrice – Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy / 11 Mar – 16 Apr 2023

Passepartout Photo Prize 
winners exhibition – curated by Olmo Amato and Roberta Fuorvia – 28 Piazza di Pietra Gallery, Rome, Italy / 8 – 22 Sept 2021

residencies

1st August – common rituals
curated by Celeste – Teramo, Italy / 26 July – 01 Aug 2026

Artists Atelier programme
Bevilacqua La Masa foundation, Civic Museums of Venice Foundation – Venice, Italy / 2024-2026

Pensare con il corpo
curated by Cesare Pietroiusti and Sive Natura – Lac o Le Mon Foundation – Lecce, Italy / 01 – 10 Sept 2023

Luigi Candiani Prize – Residency
SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea – Milan, Ital / 10 – 25 June 2023

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