About — ROBOCOOP

ROBOCOOP is an experimental and research art duo project with a background in architecture, currently based between Rome and London, and led by Luca Pozzati and Lorenzo Zandri.

Working mainly in the urban context of the city, he aims at creating fictional and urban scenarios matching old and new visions through different architectural tools – such as collages, installations, engravings, drawings, photomontages - with a provocative and reflexive approach.

ph. Lorenzo Catena © 2025

Since 2012, ROBOCOOP has dedicated the effort to the urban art, conceiving temporary urban episodes in the daily routine.

Between 2014 and 2023, ROBOCOOP have partecipated at different art events, festivals and residencies, such as MAXXI, IED, Outdoor Festival, BoCS Art, Open House Rome, Premio Giordano Festival, LUISS University among others.

In 2017, ROBOCOOP’s first solo exhibition, INNESTI / Graftings, The Popping Club of Rome,involved a site specific installation and a series of artworks, which has been exhibited the year in Milan as a part of the programme of Milano Design Week/Fuorisalone.

Awarded in 2018 as one of the most emerging creatives in Italy by TWF for ‘Giovani Creativi’, the duo participated ‘Unfolding Pavilion 2018’ for ‘Little Italy’,on the occasion of the vernissage of the ‘16th International Architecture Exhibition’ at the Biennale di Venezia. In 2020, ROBOCOOP has completed ‘Loggia Aldobrandini’, a temporary installation promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita culturale – Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali.

ph. atelier xyz © 2016

In the same year, the duo has exhibited Quadrature, a solo exhibition at Divario, inspired by Quadraturis — a pictorial genre born in the second half of the 16th century, which consisted of the creation of quadratures — architectures painted on walls and ceilings within a rigorous perspective and illusionistic framework. In 2022, the art duo has led a one-week workshop at IED, working on a site specific installation at MAXXI named ‘Roma Tropicale’, with the students from the academy.

Between 2021 and 2023, ROBOCOOP have completed for the Sovrintendenza Speciale di Roma two massive installations, ‘Scenografia di Frammenti’ and ‘BassoRilievo’. These are both 1-1 scaled artworks on the scaffoldings of the construction sites of Piazza Cavalieri di Malta and Palazzo Mattei.
In 2024, ROBOCOOP created ‘Apparato Festivo: Sorgente’, an urban scenography that came to life on Via Ettore Rolli in Rome during the Festival d’Architettura di Roma / FAR 2024, alongside a lecture at the Casa dell’Architettura, hosted by the Ordine degli Architetti di Roma.

Their works have been frequently published on architectural and art magazines, such as Dezeen, Divisare, Artribune, ELLE Decor, among others. The artworks has been successfully exhibited in Europe, in the streets as well as in the galleries.

About Instagram