FOTO/INDUSTRIA 2021
At the heart of Foto/Industria 2021 is the food industry, a theme of fundamental importance due to its inextricable link to wider questions of philosophy and biology, history and science, politics and economics. Our primary need for food overlaps here with that of images. It is a journey that develops as part of a timeless, yet highly topical subject, given the rapid developments in a sector currently responding to the most important global transformations: demographics, climate change and sustainability. Through the filter of photography, “the mirror with a memory”, food bears witness to an era and a civilization, capable of narrating its relationship with tradition, nature, technology, the past, the future and much more.
Exhibitions of the fifth editionFOTO/INDUSTRIA 2019
The central theme of Foto/Industria 2019 is the built environment: a crucial element intimately rooted in the nature of the human species, explored here from every angle, from its historic and philosophical roots to its inevitable scientific implications. It is this activity which has given rise to the technosphere: the whole set of structures that humans have built to ensure their survival on the planet. Weighing an estimated trillion tons, this artificial layer over the earth’s crust was defined as the Technosphere by Peter Haff.
Exhibitions of the fourth editionFOTO/INDUSTRIA 2019
The central theme of Foto/Industria 2019 is the built environment: a crucial element intimately rooted in the nature of the human species, explored here from every angle, from its historic and philosophical roots to its inevitable scientific implications. It is this activity which has given rise to the technosphere: the whole set of structures that humans have built to ensure their survival on the planet. Weighing an estimated trillion tons, this artificial layer over the earth’s crust was defined as the Technosphere by Peter Haff.
Exhibitions of the fourth editionFOTO/INDUSTRIA 2017
This third edition of Foto/Industria has two ambitions that it seeks to illustrate: that the identity of some of the most important photographers, their unique gaze, can be fostered by project conceived and created for corporate commissions; and that photography, despite its supposed subjectivity, can bring illusion to the world of work and production.
This third edition of Foto/Industria mixes different genres, periods, and aesthetics to offer a true panorama of photography and its interpretations today.
FOTO/INDUSTRIA 2015
This second edition of the Foto/Industria biennial, dedicated to work in all its aspects and curated by François Hébel, articulates the word production to cover the whole supply chain from conception to recycling.
Production, post-production, producers, pause, and products are the subjects featured in the 12 exhibitions held in the historic centre of Bologna, while the Fondazione MAST presents, under the direction of Urs Stahel, the finalists of the fourth edition of the GD4PhotoArt competition, created to promote the work of young photographers focused on the subjects of industry, society, and territory and an exhibition of photo books on Italian industry.
FOTO/INDUSTRIA 2015
This second edition of the Foto/Industria biennial, dedicated to work in all its aspects and curated by François Hébel, articulates the word production to cover the whole supply chain from conception to recycling.
Production, post-production, producers, pause, and products are the subjects featured in the 12 exhibitions held in the historic centre of Bologna, while the Fondazione MAST presents, under the direction of Urs Stahel, the finalists of the fourth edition of the GD4PhotoArt competition, created to promote the work of young photographers focused on the subjects of industry, society, and territory and an exhibition of photo books on Italian industry.
FOTO/INDUSTRIA 2013
The first edition presents 17 exhibitions displayed in 10 cultural landmarks of Bologna and at MAST, which hosts the show Industrial Worlds, curated by Urs Stahel.
The programme includes retrospectives on industrial work, presentations of specific projects, exhibitions of undisputed masters of corporate photography, bodies of works from private institutions. Achieving a dialogue between different collections, exhibiting previously unshown works, opening company archives, fostering comparisons, curiosity and interest by engaging museums, bank foundations and institutions, bringing to the general public the wealth of industrial photography and sharing with visitors the passion for images – this is the aim of Foto/Industria 2013.
