VIA DELLA FORNACE 41 50125 FIRENZE
Giacomo Costa
Born in Florence in 1970, he began his photographic research in the early 1990s, initially focusing on mountain landscapes. From 1996 onward, his work evolved toward an experimental practice combining traditional photography with digital technologies, giving rise to a personal and immediately recognizable visual language.
After his first solo exhibition in 1997, he took part in the Rome Quadriennale and went on to exhibit at major international institutions and events, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Venice Art Biennale, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Leopold Museum in Vienna, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane. His works are represented by international galleries. He currently lives and works between Florence and Catanzaro, where he teaches “New Technologies for Art” at the Academy of Fine Arts.
time(e)scape
opening January 16 – 6.30 pm
16.01 – 01.02.2026
The city is never a mere backdrop, but a complex organism – both symbolic body and mental construct. Giacomo Costa’s works shape post-naturalistic landscapes in which architecture, technology, and imagination generate suspended environments, set within an unstable temporality, poised between dystopian drift and visions of the future. Hyper-structured, often uninhabited metropolises express a tension between presence and absence, making Costa’s work deeply political and cultural, a reflection of contemporary society’s aspirations, fears, and desire for control.
In the video works, these worlds unfold through cyclical, immersive paths, forming an endless… loop that draws the viewer in as an integral part of the scenographic mechanism. 
